Being Vietnam’s first technology unicorn and pioneering in the technology landscape in Vietnam, VNG’s journey has continually developed from its initial online gaming background to become the technology powerhouse today.
Today, VNG involves and takes lead in several tech aspects, from the online game, media and communication (Zalo messaging app), fintech (ZaloPay), and cloud services. As Vietnam is developing along with the global technological trend, VNG and the current development of cloud services and data centers were destined to both support our internal needs in a scalable manner and to provide a platform in which the company can actively lead its initiatives in the digital transformation of Vietnam’s economy.
The Vietnamese economy has continually grown over the last decade. As one of the digital pillars VNG has been providing quality, reliable and sustainable services powering digital transformation and enabling the Vietnamese IT industry and businesses to become more digitalized and data-driven.
Vietnam’s digitization journey
The launch of VNG Cloud marked the company’s commitment to accompany Vietnam on its digitalization journey. Upholding the mission to provide world-class service to ever-increasing local, and international demand and allowing Vietnam to open to the world, VNG Cloud introduced data center services to the public market.
VNG’s internal requirements and growth of the company have provided for in excess of a decade in building capabilities, experience, and an internationally certified workforce; thereby developing the required specialized skills needed to provide up-to-date and current data and cloud services. Embracing this challenge has allowed VNG to foster; faster time to market, scalability; flexibility, cost savings, and advanced security for our customers whilst satisfying the data residency requirements in Vietnam.
The opening of VNG’s Data Center in Ho Chi Minh City is a significant milestone for VNG. The Data Center is a key to promoting the company and to a greater extent the company’s partner’s digital transformation initiatives.
At the same time, the center also houses the organization’s most valuable asset- its data. The value of this data is paramount, as any downtime results in both revenue and reputation loss for VNG Corporations’ partners.
VNG Data center is built to be intelligent and automated, with the goal of making life easier and lowering operational costs for our partners. VNG offers a carrier-neutral facility which has received full Uptime Tier III certification both in terms of design (TCCD) and construction of the data center installation (TCCF); Resilience is a foundational principle reinforced by VNG’s experienced operations team, all of whom have been trained and hold relevant international certificates in Data Center operations.
VNG is focused on providing enterprise-level needs in co-location/co-hosting with a secure, and efficient service, offering a scalable solution within the latest security framework.
Reducing carbon impact
The carbon impact of the VNG data centre has been minimized through efficient design, particularly in the deployment of a hot aisle/cold aisle configuration with a sunken floor design.
VNG’s data centre is designed to a PUE of 1.45, although it achieved 1.33 under Uptime Institute test conditions. At construction, carbon impact was minimized using a sustainable insulated precast façade.
Opportunities
According to Arizton, the Vietnam data center market was valued at $511 million in 2021 and is expected to reach $751 million by 2027, growing at a CAGR of over 6% from 2022 to 2027. Vietnam is among the top 10 emerging markets for international data centers and with the expected significant number of businesses and organizations requiring a service delivery capability that meets international standards. Overall, the Vietnamese data center market is forecast to experience tremendous and sustained growth.
For VNG – “Well begun is half done”. VNG has had an outstanding start and is embracing the challenge of demonstrating its commitment to fostering digital transformation and opening Vietnam to the world. The completion of the development of this data centre is a strong start as a launchpad for its local and global clients.
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