Taiwan's 1st Domestically Developed Cloud Computing OS Unveiled

Taipei, May 10, 2011 (CENS)--Coordinating collective efforts from enterprises, Taiwan's leading R&D institution ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) has unveiled the island's first locally developed “all-in-one” cloud computing operating system dubbed Cloud OS.

Chiueh Tzi-cker, general director of ITRI Cloud Computing Center, said that Cloud OS is based on open architecture and includes hardware and virtual recourse management system, data storage and management system, information security and protection mechanism, etc. The all-in-one OS enables enterprises to build and integrate their cloud computing data centers without fail, while saving considerable costs on data center construction.

Chiueh continued that the OS along with Taiwan's cutting-edge achievements in ICT (information and communication technology) hardware development will allow Taiwanese companies to satisfy large-sized international customers more effectively, just like Amazon with the so-called IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), while helping the island to secure a more advantageous position in the global cloud computing industry.

Actively dedicating his firm to developing cloud computing applications, Richard Lee, chairman of Inventec Corp., one of the world's top five notebook PC manufacturers, is also proud of the collective achievement in the Cloud OS by the ITRI and Taiwanese enterprises, stressing that release of the OS marks Taiwanese ICT industry's effort to start diversifying from manufacturing into application software and service provision. Inventec is one of ITRI's partners for the Cloud OS development project

At the Cloud OS presentation ceremony, Taiwan's Economic Minister Shih Yen-shiang said that cloud computing has become one of the hottest trends in the ICT industry, and therefore the government has pinpointed the emerging sector as one of Taiwan's top four smart industries that will bring huge business potential and more job opportunities to Taiwan in the future.

Backed by a maturely developed ICT industry and ITRI's Cloud OS, Shih indicated that Taiwan will soon become one of the world's most important cloud computing bases.