Vietnam to Build Largest Data Center

In an investment of dozens of millions of US dollars, Vietnamese IT solutions provider Quang Trung Software City and a US-invested firm DOT Vietnam are to develop Vietnam’s largest data center by September and two other centers by 2010, a corporate official said Thursday.

The southern Ho Chi Minh City-headquartered QTSC and DOT Vietnam will mutually invest around $10 million in creating the 3,281 square foot center. Once operational in September, the facility will offer hosting and backup services to chief clients such as government agencies, multinationals, financial groups and banks, said QTSC CEO Chu Tien Dung.

QTSC provides software creation and provision of facilities and services to software developers in an area of 141,076 square feet in the city. DOT Vietnam aims to invest about $45 million into building two other Internet data centers in Vietnam by 2010, said Dung.

Vietnam had in the region of 18.6 million Internet users, or in excess of 22 percent of its total population by the end of 2007. This is a considerable increase compared to the nearly 14.7 million users the country had by the end of 2006, according to the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center under the Ministry of Information and Communications.