The Hanoitmes - Viettel's Internet Data Centre (IDC) has opened its third data centre - the biggest and most modern o­ne in Southeast Asia - in the southern province of Binh Duong.  

The Viettel IDC Song Than, 25km away from HCM City, has been built with a total investment of US$18 million o­n a land area of 3,500 square metres. 

The total space created by the five-floor building is 10,000sq.m, enough to accommodate 40,000 servers or 1,600 racks. 

The centre provides space for servers, server renting, storage for data, data recovery after disasters (earthquake, fire, flood, etc.), web/mail hosting and virtual private networks. The centre has two different power sources and eight generators with 50,000 litres of oil that can provide electricity supply to the building for three days. 

A modern managing room monitors the centre's top notch air conditioning and fire fighting systems constantly so that the centre can provide uninterrupted support to customers, 24 hours per day.  

It is estimated that server renting would help customers save 50-70 per cent of the investment expenditure, take shorter time to deploy, and reduce expenses for technical staff. 

"Our targeted customers are those who need to keep vital information, like government offices, ministries, banks, stock, insurance, telecom and even small- and medium- sized enterprises," said Bui Thanh Van, head of Viettel IDC's marketing department. 

Viettel IDC has so far invested $30 million in four data centres in the north and the south. The latest, Hanoi-based Hoa Lac centre is under construction and expected to begin operations next year. 

The company, a joint venture between Viettel Corporation and Taiwanese Chunghwa Telecom since 2008, has reached the ISO 9000 certification for quality management and the ISO 27000 security certificate. Around 500 customers have hired the company's services so far. To mark the opening of its latest centre, customers will be provided free services at Viettel IDC Song Than from June 1 until July 31.