Sberbank Data Centers

Sberbank's MegaData Center in Balakovo

Main article: MegaData Center of Sberbank in Balakovo

MegaData Center "South Port"

Main article: MegaData Center Sberbank of the Russian Federation South Port

The main IT systems of Sberbank are centralized on the basis of MegaData Center "South Port," opened in 2011.

MegaData Center 2 in Skolkovo

Main article: MegaData Center 2 in Skolkovo

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2021: Sber begins construction of the largest data center in Russia

2020: Sberbank intends to build Mega-Data Center Sberbank South Port 2

At the end of October 2020, it became known about Sberbank's intention to build a new data center in southeastern Moscow. The location of the object is planned at the address: 2nd Yuzhnaportovy passage, house 12a, building 1, possession 12A. Sberbank's mega-data center South Port, which is considered one of the largest banking data centers in Eastern Europe, is already located there. More details here.

2015: Target Data Center Architecture to 2020

The concept of Sberbank provides that in 2019-2020. it should have three own data centers in total, said Nikita Volkov, senior vice president of IT, answering TAdviser questions during a press briefing in December 2015.

According to Volkov, Sberbank currently has a significantly larger number of data centers located in different regions of the country. They were built according to the old concept of Sberbank, which involved the creation of data centers at each of its 16 territorial banks. Banking systems were locally installed on these sites.

In 2011, Sberbank launched the Centralization 2.0 program to transfer all its territorial banks to a single IT platform. For its implementation, a new large data center was created in Moscow - MegaData Center Yuzhny Port, where all critical systems of Sberbank are now based.

MegaData Center of Sberbank "South Port" in miniature

Volkov says that part of the local non-critical systems for servicing operations in territorial data centers has still remained. Sberbank plans to centralize these systems and leave some of the data centers that will be used only for telecommunications tasks.

The task of Sberbank in the near future is to build a second MegaData Center in Skolkovo, says Nikita Volkov. Earlier, TAdviser wrote that in December the bank began searching for a general contractor to create it. Sberbank is ready to pay about 13 billion rubles for work on the project.

After that, Sberbank plans to build a third major strategic data center. Volkov told TAdviser that it will be located at a distance of more than 1 thousand km from Moscow, presumably in the Urals. According to him, preliminary work on this project has already begun. This DPC will serve as a backup site.

While Sberbank does not have its own reserve data centers, it rents three reserve data centers in Moscow. Nikita Volkov explains the need to rent three data centers at once by the fact that Sberbank did not find a single reserve data center at the level of MegaData Center "South Port."