Letter To Shareholders - Mitac

devices, establishes connection with the data center using remote access
management protocols, and utilizes the data center's powerful computation and
storage capabilities to perform any complex task or daily, regular calculations.
This arrangement facilitates users and corporations to deliver extensively
complex processing of massive data at the maximum effectiveness and lowest
costs.
“Cloud” suppliers construct hardware infrastructure and effectively integrates
with software into a working platform. Combined with various solutions
offered by software suppliers, these services can be leased to corporations
across many industries for a fee. By leasing clouds, corporations can effectively
reduce their cost of data center establishment and maintenance; they can even
retrieve products or services that these clouds provide over the Internet and
deliver them immediately into ultra portable electronic devices at the client’s
end. End consumers can then access products or services rapidly and easily
using handheld devices without being tied to the conventional, heavy electronic
equipment.
To respond to the trend of cloud computing, the company spearheaded the
introduction of its Yellow River series in 2009 to offer customers data center
solutions with high performance computing and storage capabilities. Regardless
of publicly owned or privately owned cloud structures, MiTAC is able to satisfy
the customers' every demand. Our hardware platform provides robust support to
customers' goals toward “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS). In addition to the
Yellow River series, the company will continue broadening its product lines and
introducing hardware platforms customized for the cloud computing
environment.
d. Container server rooms: the concept of container server room complements
cloud computing in the way that it helps service providers build more efficient,
more stable, and more environmentally friendly hardware platforms, thereby
reducing overall operating costs. To accommodate the trend of sustainable
business growth on planet Earth while improving operational efficiency and
cost reduction, the company is collaborating with upstream and downstream
manufacturers for the research, development, and design of container server
room related products in the hope of offering high performance yet low-cost
container data center solutions that meet the latest environmental regulations.
5.1.4 Long- and short-term business plans
1 Client system business products
(1). For short-term business plans: The US, Europe, and Japan are the major PC markets.
MiTAC’s has focused on these markets, and will continue to develop further ODM
business opportunities in these markets in the future. About product strategies,
compact systems are getting more attention in the market. So far, the digital appliance
is starting to get prosperous. For the short-term plan, we will focus on ODM in North
America and Europe and expand the source of customers from different fields.
(2). For long-term business plans: The Asia-Pacific region had the highest shipping
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