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Venturing into Cloud Technology, ELTA Participates in "Taiwan Cloud Valley" Exhibition

March 29, 2012

The “Taiwan Cloud Valley,” created by the Taiwan Cloud Computing Industry Association, held its inauguration ceremony on March 14 at Chunghwa Telecom’s Da’an Building in Taipei. Premier Sean Chen attended the event and encouraged the industry, expressing hope that “Taiwan Cloud Valley” would become even more diverse than Silicon Valley in the United States, with the government fully supporting industrial development. Association Chairman Hsueh-Chin Lu thanked both government agencies and industry participants for their active involvement, stating that the Cloud Valley Demonstration Center aims to showcase Taiwan’s cloud hardware and software capabilities, connect local companies with global opportunities, and provide the public with a place to experience and understand cloud services.

In recent years, ELTA Technology has actively ventured into the cloud industry. At the Cloud Valley Demonstration Center, it unveiled its self-developed “Digital Media Storage Cloud” for the first time. Utilizing a cloud-based architecture and management concept, this platform can serve multiple digital media companies, functioning as a “Digital Media Storage Platform” under the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model. Having operated HD television for three years, ELTA found no suitable large-scale storage solution on the market that met its needs. Therefore, in early 2009, it began developing its own system with a focus on data security and storage density, emphasizing automation and unified management to reduce operating costs. Its massive storage capacity benefits the digital media industry as well as organizations requiring large-scale digital archiving — such as libraries, film repositories, and national historical preservation institutions.

Participating companies in “Taiwan Cloud Valley” include international giants such as Microsoft, Intel, and AMD, as well as Taiwanese firms like Chunghwa Telecom, ASUS, and ELTA Technology — a total of 27 companies. The “Taiwan Cloud Valley” initiative is planned in three phases: the first phase is the opening of the Demonstration Center on March 14; the second phase involves building a shared cloud platform within the center to incubate cloud startups and form an industrial cluster, expected to be completed in 2013; and the third phase will expand to other sites, including the New Taipei Cloud Valley and additional parks, creating Taiwan’s largest “Cloud Application Software” industrial cluster by 2014.