Trend Micro Inc (趨勢科技), the nation’s leading anti-virus solution provider, yesterday announced a tie-up with Chunghwa Telecom Co (中華電信) to develop security solutions using cloud computing.
“Telecoms operators have the know-how and we want to make use of their expertise to offer security solutions tailor-made for the telecom service providers,” Trend Micro’s chief development officer Oscar Chang (張偉欽) said.
Both companies would work to develop security solutions for use in handsets, operating systems and information data centers.
The solutions are expected to go “live” in the second half of the year and could be deployed by both enterprises and consumers, Chang told reporters on the sidelines of ceremony for the signing of a memorandum of understanding.
Chunghwa Telecom has been making an aggressive foray into cloud computing — an emerging technology that enables users to access data saved in remote servers through telephones or computers.
The telecom has used Microsoft Corp’s cloud computing solutions to offer enterprise resource management (ERP) solutions to businesses.
Cloud computing marks a paradigm shift by helping companies invest less in their back-end systems and only pay per use on the ERP solutions from third-party vendors, Chunghwa Telecom chairman Lu Shyue-ching (呂學錦) said.
The nation’s largest telecoms service provider said in December that it was putting a third of its NT$30 billion (US$945 million) capital spending budget this year to improve broadband infrastructure.
Cloud computing will take up a big chunk of the budget, as more of the nation’s netizens demand faster access to the Internet to access multimedia applications on their PCs or smartphones.
The project with Chunghwa Telecom would help Trend Micro expand its business in the telecom sector in the region, including China and Vietnam, Chang said.
Trend Micro set up a wholly owned affiliate, TCloud Computing (騰雲科技), in February to pursue cloud computing business opportunities.
The new firm is scheduled to launch operations in the second quarter, targeting Asian customers, especially telecom service providers.
TCloud’s revenues are projected to hit NT$120 million in two years, and TCloud and Trend Micro combined are expected to be hiring more than 200 people to work in research and development.
Trend Micro and Chunghwa Telecom said yesterday they are not looking to have Chunghwa Telecom invest in TCloud.
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