IT giant opens data centre in City

FPT Telecommunications International on Thursday opened its largest data centre in HCM City.

The centre is funded by FPT Telecom of Financing and Promoting Technology (FPT) Corporation.

The centre, in the Export Processing Zone Tan Thuan in District 7, covers 3,000sq.m and can contain up to 3,500 servers meeting the standards of the Telecommunications Industry Association.

The centre operates with a high access speed, which will be doubled in the near future.

The centre has a multi-layered security system to ensure the safety of customer information, including a fingerprint entry system at the building entrance, a camera system and advanced anti-fire systems.

Nguyen Van Khoa, General Director of FPT, said the centre would meet the needs of different market segments, from customers hosting small systems and simple applications to banking, finance, insurance, foreign customers and digital content service providers (online games and electronic newspapers).

Besides renting servers, FPT also rents spaces for server and hardware devices.

FPT’s four data centres are split between Ha Noi and HCM City. They are linked by a high speed transmission system which satisfying the strict requirements of backup, data recovery and risk prevention.

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