According to a new Gartner report, roughly half of the companies worldwide will enact a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) program by 2017. BYOD is the increasing trend toward employees who bring their own computing devices to the workplace to access data and execute business applications.
About 3 billion smart devices are expected to be in use by 2017. If a large number of the devices are incorporated into the workplaces, the BYOD trend would bring significant cost reduction to corporations, but also create various security and management issues, due to the diversity of employees’ platforms.
In order to solve this problem, an increasing number of companies are opting for virtual business models today. Virtual service providers place all business-related works in the virtual server and make the data accessible from any type of device through virtual softwares. As the demand increases for this type of service, companies providing virtualization-based cloud computing services are riding high today.
Tilon, a representative of Korean clouding companies, is keeping pace with the BYOD trend with diverse products of cloud computing solutions- Dstation, Astation, and Estation.
Dstation and Astation - Virtualization Solution
Dstation is a desktop virtualization solution which runs multiple user operating systems on a single physical server.
Therefore, it creates a convenient managing environment for the administrator and reduces maintenance costs. Dstation also provides a robust security system for data and networks. In addition, users can access the virtual desktop that is identical to the desktop of their PCs anytime, anywhere.
Astation is a presentation virtualization solution, which employs user PC simply as a input and output device. Astation efficiently minimizes overhead costs by enhancing data security and manages IT assets effectively by placing customer data and applications on the central server. In addition, it provides a mobile office environment which workers can access at any time and from anywhere, which makes the meeting arrangement very easy.
Adopting Dstation and Astation will bring a multitude of benefits to companies. As users are able to use the identical PC operating system of their companies with various devices, employees who often travel for business or work at home can increase their work efficiency. Companies are also able to save time and money for reinstalling desktops and patch jobs for maintenance are unnecessary. On top of this, as data is not saved in the device, the service prevents data outflow, and blocks viruses and malicious programs that may gain entry through the Internet network.
Since 2011, Tilon has provided its Astation service for Duzon, which provides ERP solutions and services. By integrating Astation with its iPlus accounting program, the service is offered to users in the form of SaaS service. Users can use the package version the same with the desktop version and not web version. They can conveniently use the service with any device anywhere.
In addition, Tilon’s presentation virtualization technology is at the center of the T Cloud SAP Biz-the public cloud service of SK Telecom which enables users to execute SAP programs in the form of SaaS.
Estation a Cloud Solution for Smart Education
Tilon’s clouding solution also shows immense promise in smart education. Users can access smart learning with diverse devices such as PCs, mobiles and Smart TV through the Estation service. Students can easily share the information that teachers write down on electric boards without having to take notes. A particular student’s PC screen can also be viewed from other students’ PCs.
On top of this, teachers can utilize diverse multimedia tools such as digital textbooks, and video to enhance students’ learning experiences.
“I envision students’ improving their performance as their interest in learning increases within smart classrooms. We can also save time by not having to copy and paste all of the study materials on each student’s computer as they can easily access the cloud service for this particular task,” said a teacher at Yulha middle school, where Tilon provided Estation in 2011.
Tilon’s breakthrough into the Japanese market
“In the wake of severe earthquakes, Japanese companies have shown increasing interest in virtual technologies as part of disaster control. Most of them still rely on a few global vendors, but recently there have been increasing demands for smaller and swifter companies that are able to provide customized services. For instance, when requests are made for specific services like fingerprint system or onetime pass for their security module, global vendors often take a long time to respond as they must undergo a number of steps. However, as we are able to meet their demands more swiftly, more companies are now satisfied with our products and services,” said William Choi, CEO of Tilon.
This year, Tilon signed a TBA (TILON Business Alliance) with Kissco Japan to provide virtual-based cloud computing solutions, signaling a rise in the company’s overall presence in Japan.
At the beginning of this month, Tilon participated in the Cloud Computing EXPO Japan of JAPAN IT WEEK, which is the greatest IT exhibition in Japan. And at the end of this month, Tilon will be at the INT’L SOFT China 2013, which is China’s largest exhibition as well. It is unprecedented that Korea Pavilion is formed as a part of the exhibition, which indicates that Korean government has a growing interest toward the Chinese IT market. Through this exhibition, Tilon is to expand its market from Japan to China.
Asked about the secret to the success of business, Choi answered that the key has been sticking to one technology for over 13 years. In terms of virtual technologies, “Tilon has no peers in the Korean market, controlling around 50% of the market share in terms of the client numbers.” Its products are also widely exported to 12 countries through large companies like Samsung Electro-Mechanics and KT. “We expect to expand our business into more Asian markets this year, and also plan to break into the U.S. market with our own brand in the near future,” he said.
