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Although the plan said the need to develop the banks medium term 4-5 years and long term 10-15 years, the plan didnt mention some specific numbers such as capacity to meet the development needs in the planning stage, the number of servers, the number of devices, machines to support. More importantly, the plan must analyze the factors that affect directly or indirectly to IT needs, such as the number of customers, the number of transaction points, the number of the employees using computers,in the this stage. In general, the plan should be based on the strategic development of the bank to identify specific development needs for IT systems. At present, preparing for the projects, so cannot be given exactly the number of servers, devices, machines need to support. Some detail plan will gradually built based on deployment plan (In addition, the number of devices depend on a lot of factors such as design model, design details, the type of devices) The rate of growth of the Core banking system, IBM also had calculated and made assessment (mentioned above) 2. The building data center IT center has experience to implement some following projects: Data center 63 Lang Ha (area is 30m2) in 2007; moving from 63 Lang Ha to 126 Lo Duc (area is 36m2) in 2008; building Data center at 170 HBT (area is 80m2) in 2009. These needs the cooperation of multi-party includes investors, contractors, and supervisors with appropriate steps as well as avoid duplication. To increase quality and ensure the time, IT center proposed supervisor for the project and expected the company is an independent, reputable, world-class experience in building Data centers. In Vietnam today, there are many international companies have large scale and experience to implement these consulting services: IBM/HP/CISCO 3. At present, The State Bank does not have detailed rules on the conditions of Data center. And there were not any organization to confirm the conditions for a Data center of the commercial banks. In face, the banks implement the construction of the Data center with some specific criteria based on international standards TIA 942 (Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers). The highest level of these standards is Tier 4, the reality in Vietnam can only apply to Tier 3 except somewhere to Tier 4. 36 Hoang Cau building has confirmed the safety (fire and some other criteria) for the commercial office building. To achieve Tier 3 TIA 942 (a number of criteria achieved Tier 4) for Data center, there may need some reinforcement plan, improvement (for example: the reinforcement of the force if necessary; criteria for power). This plan will be proposed after the surveys, choices and have to go through discussions, according with the design and other technical criterion. At the step of preparation at present, there has not made the confirmation of the specific safety standards.