Intel Helps Vietnam Finance Ministry Upgrade IT System

Intel-Vietnam Group signed a one-year memorandum of understanding with Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance in Hanoi September 27 to transfer its latest technology to the latter. The deal will help the Vietnamese ministry increase efficiency in management and use of the information technology infrastructure, the Buu Dien newspaper run by the Ministry of Information and Communications reported.
The two parties will cooperate in making IT development plans, policies on hardware infrastructure, use of supporting tools to find out and correct weak points of applications run at the Finance Ministry, and design on a data backup center. Intel’s Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Group, Kirk Skaugen, said the deal is expected to help boost bilateral relations and Intel commits to supporting IT development in Vietnam. Among the largest investors in Vietnam’s hi-tech sector, Intel now runs a $1-billion chip assembling plant in Ho Chi Minh City. (www.ictnews.vn Sept 27, www.vietnamplus.vn Sept 27)