INET commits further Bt1.2 bn to data centre
INTERNET Thailand (INET) plans to spend a further Bt1.2 billion on a data centre in Saraburi province this year and set up an online marketplace for what it calls hybrid cloud services.
Wanchai Vach-shewadumrong, deputy managing director of INET, said the technology company had invested more than Bt900 million on the first phase of INET’s data centre 3, which provides services to local and international companies within 2,000 square metres. The data centre meets demand from customers accounting for 50-60 per cent of its capacity, and the company expects full capacity to be reached by the end of this year.
The additional Bt1.2 billion investment covers the subsequent phases to phase four of work on the data centre that will widen the coverage to 8,000 square metres. The work up to phase four would be completed in the next eight months, Wanchai said.
The company had also set up Thaidotcom as a marketplace for local software, an initiative that should be boost the software industry as a whole, INET said.
For the cloud service, INET said it would provide an electronic marketplace for hybrid cloud services that would allow multi-cloud providers to provide public cloud services via INET’s e-marketplace. Customers will be able to access the cloud as utility services.
For Thaidotcom, this operation has been set up as a subscriber-based company that acts as an e-marketplace for locally developed software. Software developers can expand their business base and provide their products via online channels. The operation has more than 20 members who display their products on the platform.
“We want to help local software companies expand their business base and provide their products in terms of a licence or a project base into a cloud base or an account base, so that it will boost their productivity, increase their revenue and improve the software industry as a whole,” Wanchai said.
He said that the firm last year gained revenue of more than Bt1 billion and expects that to rise to Bt1.3 billion by the end of this year, representing growth of about 30 per cent.
Sutat Sakulniwat, general manager of Express Software Group, which provides accounting software marketed as Express, said that the Thai software industry was continuing to grow but it needed support from government policy. Express Software is participating on Thaidotcom.
INET says it complies with the ISO Certification 27799 international standard to ensure high-quality services to customers.
