DPC CROC 2013

Within 1.5-2 years Croc is going to construct one more own DPC, the CEO of the companyBoris Bobrovnikov told on April 16, 2013. Now the company has 3 DPCs: on 90, 110 racks and the largest platform - on 800 racks with power of power supply of 8 MW, speak in the company. The last in April, 2013 was certified on compliance to level of fault tolerance of Tier 3.

In Croc tell that about 95% of revenue of revenue of the largest DPC are generated by placement of the equipment of customers in it, and the rest is the share of cloud services. Need of creation of the new data-center the head explains Croc with the fact that the largest DPC of the company is already completely loaded by the client equipment while there is a considerable number of persons interested to use its services.

Bobrovnikov says that now the company looks for the platform under new DPC. It should be located surely in Moscow or within no more than 10 km from MKAD.

"Customers just are farther will not go. Several hundred our relevant customers speak - "will have DPC in Moscow, we will rent", they want to have access to the equipment", - he says.

The head of DPC and cloud computing CrocRuslan Zayetdinov told TAdviser that the new DPC will be expected the number of racks approximately twice exceeding quantity of racks on the present largest platform of the company.

He found it difficult to call exact assessment of necessary investments into the project, having noted in a conversation with TAdviser that it "much more exceeds $100 million".

According to Zayetdinov, his company moves towards increase in a share of cloud services in revenue of DPC: "we calculates that in the next three years total revenue from placement of the equipment and cloud services will even out", he says. The company notes increase in demand for lease of infrastructure from a cloud and growth of own revenue from this direction in 2012.