Promoting digital transformation in the journalism industry is advised by the Ministry of Information and Communications and submitted to the Government for approval of the Digital Transformation Strategy to 2025, with a vision to 2030. Accordingly, the goal by 2025, there will be 70% of press agencies post content on digital platforms (priority is given to domestic digital platforms). Since then, editorial convergence has become the development trend of modern journalism. This is a digital editorial model, taking full advantage of multimedia human resources and advanced technology platforms to produce publications for many different types and media.

As a national radio station, the Government’s main media agency with four types of media: radio, television, printed newspapers and online electronic newspapers, the Voice of Vietnam (Voice of Vietnam) identifies must thoroughly exploit and apply modern technology in content production, development and distribution activities, meeting the increasing demands of the digital public.

To achieve this goal, on the morning of September 19, 2023, the Center for Research and Application of Communications Technology of Radio TNVN organized a workshop “Building a digital platform for the Voice of Vietnam” at the Radio Center. National (58 Quan Su, Hanoi). The workshop had the participation of leaders of Vietnam National Television, leadership representatives, information technology officers of units in Vietnam National Television, and domestic permanent agencies through online form. There were more than 50 delegates from more than 50 leaders of station units such as VOV TV, VOV Traffic, Voice of Vietnam Newspaper, VOV Electronic Newspaper, VTC Digital Television Station, VOV1, VOV2…

Workshop “Building a digital platform for the Voice of Vietnam” held at the National Broadcasting Center on September 19, 2023

Mr. Vu Hai Quang – Deputy General Director of TNVN said: “To build a converged newsroom, VOV has soon shaped a digital transformation strategy with 3 main pillars: financial management – human resource administration; Management and construction of broadcast transmission infrastructure and management of news operations. However, the first and most important step for this journey must come from laying a common digital infrastructure foundation that is reliable, safe and secure, and especially capable of expanding quickly.”

Mr. Vu Hai Quang – Deputy General Director of TNVN spoke at the conference

Representative of CMC Telecom, the telecommunications infrastructure unit that has been providing transmission lines for TNVN for many years, attended the conference. Mr. Nguyen Minh Quang – Director of CMC Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Consulting Center said: “In In the converged editorial model, press and media products must meet more technological requirements, especially multi-platform and multi-interface criteria. Vietnam Television needs a unified platform between the data used. Furthermore, with the unique nature of the broadcasting industry, VOV not only needs a powerful digital infrastructure to store huge amounts of media content, but also needs to be “elastic” to quickly meet the volume of regular traffic. reader’s mutation. Built on a stable, high-speed infrastructure, strong security and flexible expansion, CMC Telecom’s new generation CMC Cloud completely meets these requirements.”

Mr. Nguyen Minh Quang – Director of CMC Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Consulting Center shared at the seminar

With the advantage of a telecommunications infrastructure provider, CMC Cloud is developed and operated in a data center ecosystem designed according to international Tier III standards with High Availability and Disaster mechanisms. Recovery (recovery after disaster), security at the highest level. These neutral Data Centers of CMC Telecom also meet ISO 9001:2001, ISO 27001 standards, especially ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 – 2 important sets of certificates for information security and user authentication on the Internet. Cloud.

The new generation CMC Cloud has Cloud Native architecture with KVM virtualization technology, SDS (Software Defined Storage), SDN (Software Defined Network). Among them, the modern Intel Sapphire Rapids Chip, the most powerful performance on the market; Unlimited storage capacity with HDD drives, optimized read and write speeds with 100% AllFlash drives, network bandwidth support up to 40Gbps, all in the highest segment of the market, meeting all distribution needs content and ensure stable performance up to 99.99%.

According to a CMC Telecom representative, when data access traffic to TNVN’s portals suddenly increases, leading to data access line congestion, the Auto Scaling technology integrated in CMC Cloud will automatically open. Expand or minimize the amount of computing resources allocated to an application at any given time according to usage needs. Every 5 minutes, the system will automatically check and issue periodic warnings to ensure there is no overload. Combined with the Elastic Load Balance feature, data will be load-balanced between virtual servers effectively, ensuring performance and reducing costs incurred for Servers during times when they are not in use.