Dang Minh Tam, the lead solution architect at Alibaba Cloud, told Nikkei Asia that the company currently rents spacefrom state-owned firms Viettel and VNPT to host client data locally.

It also backs up its data at sever farms in other countries such as Indonesia and Singapore.

But eventually it wants to build a data center in Vietnam to cater to the increasing demand in one of Asia's rapidly expanding economies, Tam said.

"Vietnam is a very high potential market," Tam said in an interview. "There's a lot of space to grow."

Vietnam in 2022 required international companies to store Vietnamese users’ data in the country and set up offices locally.

Bac Giang digitalises data on concentrated agricultural production areas

Promoting digital transformation in agriculture and rural areas is one of the key tasks that the northern province of Bac Giang will focus on from now until 2025, said Director of the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Duong Thanh Tung.

Plan approved to develop National Data Centre

The Government on October 30 approved a development plan on the National Data Centre, expected to help Vietnam reach higher positions in the global e-Government, information technology, and cybersecurity rankings.

Digital transformation and data investment: the future trend

Three out of top ten Vietnamese domestic brands have demonstrated commendable business performance in 2022, closely linked to their extensive digital transformation activities, according to the Vietnam Customers Experience Excellence (CEE) report by KPMG for the year 2022.

Bac Giang effectively exploits digital data focusing on users

BAC GIANG - On the morning of October 10, the People's Committee of Bac Giang province (PPC) organized the Digital Transformation Day of Bac Giang province in 2023 with the theme "Exploiting digital data to create value".

Mekong-Lancang countries reach agreement on dam operation data sharing

The six Mekong countries have endorsed recommendations of a joint study to pave the way for better information sharing about reservoir operations on the Mekong.

Source: VnExpress