SCS, HP announce launch of Alatum
Tan Ee Sze
03/11/2008

Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have announced the launch of Alatum, Singapore’s largest commercial grid computing service platform.

Alatum will deliver a plethora of computing power, storage and software applications on a pay-per-use, on-demand and online basis from 1 November 2008. The services are targeted at public sector agencies as well as commercial organisations looking for cost-effective, integrated and easily managed IT solutions.

The launch of Alatum follows the Singapore Government’s award of the country’s Grid Service Provisioning project to the SCS and HP consortium in June 2008. The award marked the start of grid services commercialisation and an industry-government partnership to promote wider grid adoption among organisations.

Alatum’s pioneer partners include Haley, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Actuate, Aksaas, AlpSoft, Avartis, BLC Solutions, Clik Technologies, iZeno, Melioris, Philip Tang & Sons, and Netsuite, and strategic technology partners Citrix Systems, IBM WebSphere Commerce and its partner Cnetric, Platform Computing, Red Hat and SingTel.

Tan Tong Hai, Chief Executive Officer of SCS, said he was also encouraged by the strong signups from local independent software vendors as well as enterprise customers. The first enterprise customers signed up by the Alatum partners include Research International, K2 Specialist Services and Vestas Technology R&D Singapore.

"As a leading global marketing and innovation research agency, our team of consultants travel extensively in the region, carrying with them confidential customer data that needs to be continuously backed up and self-recovered when necessary. AlpSoft’s Atempo LiveBackup service on the Alatum platform ensures business continuity for our business," said S P Teoh, Regional IT Manager of Research International, one of the world’s largest custom market research agencies.

HP Singapore Vice President and Managing Director Tan Yen Yen said, “Businesses will increasingly access a wide range ‘cloud services’ available on-demand on the Internet. Alatum services are an apt introduction to the promise of cloud services, and HP is excited to be part of this new paradigm of services provisioning.” 

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