First data centre of Việt Nam’s banking sector operational

May 15, 2017 - 18:08

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV), MNR Joint Venture and IBM Việt Nam held a ceremony to launch a new data centre in Hà Nội yesterday.

The new data of SBV is the first data centre of the country’s banking sector. It has been the most modern data centre of banking sector so far and is the only data centre of SBV instead of dispersing in 63 provinces and cities as before.- Photo courtesy of SBV

Viet Nam News

HÀ NỘI — The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV), MNR Joint Venture and IBM Việt Nam held a ceremony to launch a new data centre in Hà Nội on Monday.

The centre, which is part of the FSMIMS project sponsored by World Bank, is located at 64 Nguyễn Chí Thanh, Hà Nội, covering an area of 2,000 square metres.

It is the first data centre of the country’s banking sector, replacing the centres dispersed in 63 provinces and cities as before.

The centre was designed and built following world standard Tier 3 with a high readiness of up to 99.983 per cent and the total interruption time of only 1.6 hours per year.

Nguyễn Kim Anh, SBV deputy governor, said that with World Bank funds, the FSMIMS project was successfully implemented and put in operation. “The establishment of the data centre is an important milestone in the modernisation process of SBV information and technology’s foundation in conformity with the development orientation of the country’s banking sector in the context of integration trend”. — VNS

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