05 Jan 2010

With R&D engineers already successfully recruited, the Cloud Computing Research Center of Taiwan's government-funded ITRI ( Industrial Technology Research Institute ) has become operational to tap, in cooperation with Taiwan enterprises, the emerging business potential generated by applications of cloud computing technology.

Dr. Johnsee lee, the president of ITRI, indicated that the rise of cloud computing technology will bring revolutions to the ICT and related industries, further varying uses and applications of IT and the Internet in the future. Besides, this will also help Taiwan to upgrade industries to a higher profile.

Since setting up the Cloud Computing Research Center in September of 2009, the ITRI has actively recruited to engineers with related technical background, and sought cooperation with enterprises, in an effort to activate the center as soon as possible and assist industries on the island to carve out new niches through earlier involvement in the technology.

The center, according to its head Dr. Chiueh Tzi-cker, will be dedicated to the development of software, hardware and application services based on cloud computing technology. Plus, the added that ITRI will establish a containerized data center, which will be installed with a total of up to 2,000 servers and related equipment.

According to industry insiders in Taipei, the global market demand for products and services based in cloud computing technology is estimated at US$42 billion in 2012, with 80% of the Fortune 500 companies to use related services.