Pioneering computer rentals

FPT’s broadband ADSL Center officially began Vietnam’s first-ever computer rental service, called EasyServer, in Ho Chi Minh City on 6 November 2006.

15/11/2006

The company is targeting small- and medium-sized enterprises with the service. Rented computers have Xeon 2.8Ghz (or Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz), 512Mb of RAM, and 20Gb of HDD, operating with an operation system selected by customers and connected directly to the Internet via an IP address. In particular, the EasyServer service can run with Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003.

EasyServer can be administered at the offices of renters with remote control programs such as Remote Desktop, VNC or Citrix PCAnywhere. In addition, technical support is available 24 hours a day. The service includes two packages: the standard package at VND1.5 million per month (for a server with Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz), and the power package at VND2 million per month (for a server with Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz).

As at October 2006, more than 120,000 people had subscribed to FPT’s enterprise electronic mail account service.