Optimistic view on China domestic ICT industry: CeBIT

(Ecns.cn) -- CeBIT 2012, the international information and communication technology exposition, was officially inaugurated on March 6th in Hanover, Germany. It is the world's largest authoritative exposition in information, communication and software fields, and will last till March 10th.

CeBIT 2012 sets its theme as "Trust Management," emphasizing trust and security in the digital era. In this regard, many exhibitors have put forward their own solutions to the problem of "security and trust."

And this year, China takes part in Hannover Messe as a cooperative country and also adds distinguishing Chinese features to CeBIT exposition, which was separated from Hannover Messe.

"Trust management" focusing on "cloud" technology

The insiders in the industry point out that as the digital world's centre, CeBIT helps exhibitors form a close relationship with audiences through the four plates of "digital business, digital government affairs, digital laboratories and digital life." In recent years, with integration in business modes, intercommunication within multiple fields and realization of seamless connection, "cloud computing" has become an important issue in ICT technological development.

"Information security threats have grown rapidly in recent years. And in particular, frequent data losses within some enterprises in finance and communication have aroused the enterprises' executives concern over the data security management. Trust management put forward by CeBIT this year gives prominence to the high demands on digital security, cloud service security and the like from the industry," said Mr. Zheng Xu, director of overseas sales from Centerm Information, during the interview.

 Centerm Information Co., Ltd. is a leading provider of "desktop cloud" solutions in China and a supplier of electronic payment products and the earliest vendor to engage in the R&D, production and sale of thin clients and telephone payment terminals in China, which has ranked top one stably in Asia-Pacific thin clients market sales (except Japan) twice.

Centerm Information frequents CeBIT. This year, Centerm takes part in the exposition in Germany with its "desktop cloud" overall solutions and its leading and professional payment terminal and solutions for the third time.

It is reported that their exhibition with cloud computing as the theme will focus on displaying Centerm multiple industry-level overall solutions in cloud computing , especially in the "desktop cloud" field. In addition, it will also be the first time for them to display their new achievements in payment terminal fields to European market.

Mr. Zheng Xu indicated that satisfactory experience from customers fully presents the strength. On the spot of the exposition, visitors can review the cloud computing terminal and other cloud management softwares represented by thin clients and smart products, researched and developed by Centerm itself.

In the meantime, visitors can also experience a tryout of different payment terminal products such as business payment terminal, family payment terminal and multifunction internet access smart card payment terminal, thus gaining a profound understanding on Centerm's technology and innovative strength in the cloud computing and payment industry.

Development in "cloud technology" will be the vane in IT field in the near future. And the ability to provide overall solutions with growing importance will be a touchstone to measure the overall strength of IT vendors. Under such circumstances, Mr. Zheng Xu expressed, "currently, Centerm is bringing its strength into full play in three points, i.e. 'terminal,' 'management' and 'cloud' in cloud computing with focus on how to realize cloud computing commercial touchdown in a more effective and safer way."

According to information from reporters, "terminal" means different terminals and peripherals in cloud computing researched and developed by Centerm itself, "management" means multiple cloud management softwares represented by Centerm Cinfin management softwares, and "cloud" means "desktop cloud" overall solutions specially made for bank, government, insurance, manufacture, medical care and education fields with the foregoing two's merits integrated by Centerm.

Some experts on the spot of exposition told reporters that at present, cloud computing mainly centers on smart data analysis, network and storage and the like. It is on the way of generating multiple commercial applications such as server cloud, storage cloud, network cloud, finance cloud, communication cloud, enterprise cloud and medical care cloud.

Although cloud computing in commercial application often encounters the technical problems such as difficulty in peripheral compatibility, Centerm boasts relatively strong accumulation in technology and market in these aspects, which accounts for Centerm Information's quick growth. "We understand the industry users' earnestness towards safe and quick realization of IT structure transformation. Centerm "desktop cloud" overall solutions will help customers in the industry achieve a balance between customers' experience and cost input and realize the value of cloud computing commercial application as soon as possible on the basis of stable data security guarantee," Mr. Zheng Xu thus introduced to the reporters.

The veteran experts in the industry who visited the exposition pointed out that China domestic initiative strength will be a bright spot in this year's CeBIT. As far as the participators from China attending CeBIT are concerned, excellent vendors from China mainland are the new leading forces with vigorous growth over these years, compared with the traditional forces from China Taiwan such as Asus, MSI and Acer.