PRESS RELEASE FPT HI GIO CLOUD – THE FIRST FULL-SCALE AND FULL-SPECTRUM CLOUD IN VIETNAM GOES MULTIREGIONAL AND OFFICIALLY OPERATION IN HANOI.

Hanoi – April 8, 2019 – FPT Telecom International (FTI) – a subsidiary of FPT Telecom JSC. and one of the leading Internet service providers in Vietnam, today announced its cloud infrastructure service FPT HI GIO CLOUD – goes multiregional.

FPT HI GIO CLOUD service is the powerful cooperation between two giants in the telecommunications field of Vietnam and Japan: FPT Telecom and Internet Initiative Japan. FPT HI GIO CLOUD is the cloud for Vietnam – it combines the ultra-modern and the most advanced Japanese cloud technology from Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) and the top-quality infrastructure, management, experience and support from FPT Telecom.

FPT HI GIO CLOUD has been successfully operating and delivering the outstanding quality services to its customers since April 2017. Since then we have achieved over 5 times growth in the market. All these years we have been constantly winning your trust and providing our superior cloud solutions to the sectors of: finance, banking, e-commerce, real estate, retail, convenient stores, manufacture, textiles and garments, furniture, healthcare, software development, online games, research, and many others. Since 2017, we have launched multiple important service updates: Security Update: including Multi-factor Authentication, Alerts and Notifications; Functional Update: including real-time online system Resource Monitoring, Scheduling Function, Backup as a Service and many more.

Today we announce the multiregional FPT HI GIO CLOUD. From now on our customers can choose where to build their system in order to maximize performance, availability, and redundancy. They can deploy services in multiple regions, choose rather they need a cloud in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, or both. We also offer them to backup and restore their data and system in both regions through the cloud platform with the FPT HI GIO CLOUD Backup as a Service solution.

With all the old and the new functions, FPT HI GIO CLOUD continues striving to be the market leader in providing cloud solutions to small and medium businesses and large enterprise customers in Vietnam.

FPT HI GIO CLOUD is powered by FPT Data Centers -- Uptime Institute Tier 3 certified, top reliable Data Centers in Vietnam.

Our customers’ security is our top priority. We claim the robust cloud and provide you with the modern appropriate security solutions and tools and the latest security updates to protect your system and data.

Instead of investing in physical devices and spending 6-8 weeks for ordering and deploying a system, FPT HI GIO CLOUD customers are able to quickly and conveniently create virtual machines (within 15 minutes). In addition, the leasing of FPT HI GIO CLOUD will also reduce initial investment costs up to 40% - 60%. We guarantee such super-fast deployment even for an enterprise-grade system. And for those customers who look for something special we offer custom-tailored cloud solutions.

With outstanding features such as VPN, point-to-point MPLS, multiple built-in firewall functions, load balancer and many others, FPT HI GIO CLOUD allows its users to scale up their system in an active, fast and unlimited way.

The ultimate scalable payment plans allow users to control their costs and improve their bottom-line results. Our customers can choose between pay-as-you-go model or a flat-rate contract, and they can scale their system up and down anytime on the assumption of their real-time needs.

FPT HI GIO CLOUD offers its customers to use its management webportal, where they can manage their cloud, users and billing, monitor their system, set up alerts and receive notifications, schedule their virtual machines real-time online. And if they need help, our professional experienced certified local support strives to respond and troubleshoot 24/7/365 and is available in Vietnamese and English languages.

By reducing time, cost and resources, FPT HI GIO CLOUD meets high standard and strict requirements of small and medium businesses and large enterprise customers.

Mr. Pham Duy Phuc – General Director of FPT Telecom International (FTI) said: “As a member of FPT Telecom, FPT Telecom International (FTI) is Vietnam’s leading telecommunications company and Internet service provider of online data, Voice Over IP, leased line, video conferencing, Wi-Fi, cyber security solutions, many others and of course Cloud computing services in Vietnam. FTI provides its customers with an opportunity to use the world's most reliable services on a high-speed connection. Our indisputable advantage – is owning our multiple data centers with the space up to thousand square meters each and the broadband transmission for domestic and international network.”

IIJ has been leading the Japanese Internet industry for over 25 years as the comprehensive Internet-related service provider. By leveraging the technological expertise gained through its Internet connectivity services, the company has expanded its business portfolio as a total solutions provider, offering highly reliable services worldwide.

FPT Telecom and IIJ cooperation started in October 2016. Since then, both companies have been providing the first full-scale and full-spectrum cloud computing service in Vietnam. We have achieved tremendous results together and we expect to continue lifting our cooperation to the new heights and strengthen the relationship.

For more details about the service, please visit https://higio.net or hotline 1900 6973.