Korea’s system integration firm Samsung SDS said it will expand its cloud service beyond Samsung affiliates to external customers from July of this year.

The company said in a press conference held at Sangam Data Center on Thursday that its multi-cloud service called Samsung SDS Enterprise Cloud will be launched as a B2B model to address the needs of financial, manufacturing, service and public sector companies which have interest in switching between different types of cloud services.

“Korea’s switching rate is not so high as advanced markets but the fast-growing cloud business gives us good business opportunities,” said Samsung SDS president Hong Won-pyo.

During the conference, Samsung SDS released its enterprise cloud system which supports both private and public cloud services and provides multi-cloud total services ranging from consulting to conversion to operation by applying task-specific cloud conversion methods.

Samsung SDS’ private cloud consisting of five sector services such as application development platform (PaaS) has the world’s highest level of availability (99.999%), guaranteeing a total system downtime of less than 5 minutes per year. Samsung SDS runs four data centers in Korea and eight overseas to conduct cloud business. It will open another one in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province in June of next year.

By Seo Dong-cheol and Minu Kim

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