Mr Gary McKinnon - Business Development Director of VNG Digital Business Data is a new fuel source to boost the economy

DNHN - Gary McKinnon, director of business development at VNG Digital Business, stated that cooperation with reputable data centres will be the key for businesses to lead the trend of rapid digital transformation and increase their competitiveness.

At the Vietnam Cloud Computing and Data Centre 2023 Conference, representatives of VNG and several international businesses discussed the growth of the data/cloud infrastructure in Vietnam and adaptive solutions for Business.

Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan are the three leading data storage complexes in the Asia-Pacific region at present.

To become the digital hub of the region, Vietnam will have to compete with Thailand and Malaysia, among others. Vietnam must improve and further improve its Internet and digital infrastructure to reach its objective.

According to a representative of the Information Security Administration, the government has outlined in numerous programmes and projects the development of digital infrastructure with a focus on developing broadband communication infrastructure and cloud platforms and infrastructure. including the 10-year economic development strategy for the years 2021 to 2030.

The completion of the modern synchronous socio-economic infrastructure system has been identified as one of the strategic breakthroughs, with a focus on the rapid development of digital infrastructure, the construction of synchronous national and regional data infrastructure, and the establishment of local, synchronous and unified connections, thereby laying the groundwork for the development of the digital economy and digital society.

In addition, when a series of technologies/services are introduced to serve businesses, another monitoring solution is required.

In recent years, Vietnam has been ranked as one of the top 10 data centre and cloud computing markets in the world, particularly after the Cloud and Data Centre industry was identified as the backbone of the digital transformation.

Vietnam's strategy to build the nation's digital infrastructure stipulates that by 2025, 100 per cent of government agencies and 70 per cent of businesses will utilise cloud computing services provided by private companies. Domestic provision...

"We are convinced that data is a new source of economic growth. The network of data centre infrastructure provided to businesses will be the "backbone" of the digital economy, according to the Business Development Director of VNG Digital Business, Gary McKinnon.

According to Mr Gary, the data centre colocation rental market (physical space for placing servers, power systems, bandwidth, and related equipment) is expanding.

When hiring Colocation services, domestic and international businesses will be completely assured of infrastructure, server system stability, connection resilience, and the highest level of security, thereby maximising resource optimisation and cost savings.

Cooperation with reputable data centres will be the key for businesses to lead the trend of rapid digital transformation and increase their competitiveness, as this is an inevitable trend.

According to Arizton, the data centre market in Vietnam will attract more than $1 billion in investment by 2028. Many companies, including Data Centre First, Edge Centres, and Infracrowd Capital, have invested in data centres in Vietnam following the implementation of Decree 53 on data storage.

Consequently, the colocation rental market (physical space for servers, power systems, bandwidth, and related equipment) for data centres continues to expand. Choosing the best leasing partner will result in numerous advantages for businesses.

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