Further to the story 'New internet data centers to service Vietnam's growing IT infrastructure' (3/4/2007) a corporate official has confirmed that a Vietnamese information technology company and a US-invested firm have agreed to invest dozens of million US dollars in developing Vietnam's biggest Internet datacenter by September and two other centers by 2010.
The local company named Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) in southern Ho Chi Minh City and US-invested firm called DOT Vietnam will jointly invest around 10 million dollars in building the 1,000-square meter center which will, once becoming operational in September, offer hosting and backup services to such major clients as government agencies, multinationals, financial groups and banks, said QTSC's chief executive officer Chu Tien Dung.
QTSC, specializing in software production, and provision of facilities and services to software developers in an area of 430,000 square meters in the city, and DOT Vietnam plan to pour around 45 million dollars into building two other Internet datacenters in Vietnam by 2010, he said.
Vietnam has posted an average annual growth of 36 percent in Internet users since its connection to the global computer network in November 1997. Under the ministry's plan, all ministries, sectors and state administrative agencies at district level upward, institutes, universities, colleges and senior high schools will have broadband Internet connections by 2010.