KUALA LUMPUR: Time dotCom Bhd (TIME), through its subsidiary AVM Cloud Sdn Bhd (AVM), is embarking on a multi-cloud strategy to further grow its enterprise division's customer base.
TIME executive vice president, enterprise division Kit Au said the future of cloud computing lies in the use of multi-cloud architectures, which in essence comprises multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single network architecture.
"The distribution of cloud assets, software, applications, and more across several cloud environments often results in customers being able to realise lower total-cost-of-ownership (TCO)," said Kit in a statement today.
He also shared that AVM is set to accelerate cloud adoption within TIME's existing customer base, while further expanding AVM's market reach due to TIME's regional footprint.
"With AVM, TIME now has even stronger synergies across our various divisions, enabling us to upsell and cross-sell solutions, more so within today's 'new norm' which demands companies to operate remotely," said Kit.
He added that, with AVM, the group's cloud division has progressively strengthened its value proposition for public, private or hybrid cloud deployments.
Meanwhile, AVM chief strategy officer Srinivas Rao said with a multi-cloud approach, businesses would enjoy lower cost of tapping into public clouds, while maintaining the different benefits that come with on-premises architecture and private cloud options.
"Hybrid cloud provides an alternative for storing sensitive data. A company might provide services via a public cloud, while keeping sensitive information on a private cloud," said Srinivas.
"A hybrid cloud solution works best when a single set of management tools, skills and workflows can extend seamlessly across consistent infrastructure that is common to both on-site, public cloud, and hosted environments," he added.
Multi-cloud solutions play an important role when businesses seek to operate across two or more clouds that do not have consistent infrastructure.
According to Srinivas, multi-cloud solutions are designed to help manage workloads that run on the native infrastructure of public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud among others.
"Managing a multi-cloud environment can be a challenge for organisations, as well as increased costs and protecting workloads. Improving operational governance and automating core processes are also high priorities to solve," said Srinivas.
"This is where AVM comes in to help customers with these concerns."
AVM is one of Malaysia's leading cloud computing providers, and one renowned within the local industry for leveraging VMware's various cloud and virtualisation solutions.
The company was Malaysia's first VMware authorised consultant and premium partner.
"We implemented the largest virtual storage area network (VSAN) in Malaysia, and helped the country's second-largest bank implement our 'cloud-in-a-box' service," said Srinivas.
In Malaysia, AVM operates three major data centres - one in Kuala Lumpur and two in Cyberjaya, all of which are in compliance with various international standards.
"In addition, AVM's multi-cloud offerings are available on a local basis across the region. We ensure that companies in Malaysia, as well as those based in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, can be assured that their data is hosted locally, thus preventing data sovereignty issues from cropping up," said Srinivas.
"Leveraging TIME's local and regional footprint, we are now able to widen our coverage to serve even more customers," he added.