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How can NTT Communications' Enterprise Cloud Service help enable your business' global network?

Car manufacturer Honda Motor Co is one of the many businesses to utilise NTT Communications’ Enterprise Cloud service to significantly strengthen its global supplier network with faster, more secure file sharing and reduce annual operating costs.

NTT Com, a global strategic partner of Honda, has been providing the automaker with its Enterprise Cloud service from delivery centres in Japan and Singapore since 2013. To date, Honda has increased its file-sharing speed by a factor of 14, while reducing operating costs by 30% on an annual basis.

Honda is currently planning to expand its use of Enterprise Cloud infrastructure in other key areas of its global business.

NTT Com’s Enterprise Cloud, the first private cloud to deploy Software Defined Networking (SDN), is built on global cloud infrastructure provided from 11 delivery centres in 9 countries. Offering complete enterprise solutions with the highest levels of security, the cloud leverages SDN to provide flexible support for critical enterprise applications.

Mr Mikiya Fujita, manager of the System Service Division at Honda, explained that the company was in need of a universal method of data exchange, a previously they had varied depending on region. NTT Com’s solution was to use Enterprise Cloud to standardize existing systems and reduce the time and cost of deploying new systems with a virtualized environment. As a result, Honda has vastly increased its large data transfer speeds and broadly standardized its supplier network, thereby supporting faster and more cost-efficient development, procurement and production operations.

High-speed file transfers

Honda’s cloud infrastructure for file transfers is connected directly to Arcstar Universal One, NTT Com’s high-quality managed network service. In addition to high-speed transfers among differing systems in differing markets, Honda has used this infrastructure to achieve greater efficiency for related internal operations.

Globally standardized security

Moving to NTT Com’s cloud environment has enabled Honda to standardize its global security policy in an integrated manner with Camellia file encryption, one of the world’s strongest encryption technologies, and the SSL communication encryption protocol.

Fast, low-cost global cloud infrastructure deployment

Honda also benefits from a flexible cloud environment that is connected to NTT Com’s high-quality global network. NTT Com’s cloud infrastructure, provided from 11 delivery centres in 9 countries, has enabled Honda to deploy systems that are 90% faster and cost 30% less to operate than before.

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