VimpelCom creates a data center for billions near Vladivostok

On September 20, 2022, it became known about the contract concluded by VimpelCom and Key Point, which develops a network of data centers for the 3data franchise. The terms of the agreement imply the launch of an 880-rack data center for a telecom operator near Vladivostok.

According to Kommersant, the first stage will be available for operation by the end of the year, VimpelCom will reserve a "significant amount" of the data center's capacity for its capacity to provide services to business. VimpelCom will also become a provider of telecom services for customers of the data center after the completion of the construction of three fiber-optic routes.

VimpelCom and Key Point, which develops a network of data centers under the 3data franchise, have signed launch agreements for a data center operator at 880 racks near Vladivostok

Key Point and VimpelCom in September 2022 also signed an agreement construction DPC on the Novosibirsk region. The telecommunications company will give Key Point the rights to the site in the industrial and logistics park.

In addition, the deployment of services data storage in the Far Eastern region was reported by MegaFon"," which signed a memorandum of cooperation with Key Point in Siberia and the Far East.

As Kommersant the interlocutor explained in the data center market, before that there were no major players in the segment in Primorye. The services were provided by "several local players." According to the source, the data center "" VimpelCom near Vladivostok can cost 2-3 billion. rubles

Data centers in the Far East are needed, but their construction and operation are fraught with risks, believes Pavel Kulakov, general director of the data center and cloud provider Oxygen, including a possible shortage of qualified engineers, as well as the fact that "management decisions will still be made in Moscow."

In his opinion, outside the Moscow region, "cloud IT products do not find mass demand." Although the Russian market for equipment for data centers is being rebuilt for supplies from Southeast Asia, the location of the facility in Primorye will not create a significant advantage, Kulakov added.^[1]

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