Linx (MPA Communication) formerly Linxdatacenter

Performance indicators

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Provider Linx's cloud solutions and services DPC increased revenue by 20% to 1.6 billion in 2023. rubles The company announced this on April 26, 2024. The company showed the most significant growth in the direction - IaaS Linx Cloud revenue grew by 51%. The company's revenue from Colocation's service increased by 15%. Operating profit (OIBDA) Linx reached 822 million rubles, thus, profitability (OIBDA margin) amounted to 50%.

More than 60% of existing customers expanded their partnership with Linx in 2023. The total number of customers of the company increased by 15%. More than half of Linx's customers traditionally belong to the large and medium-sized business segment. Representatives of IT (33%), retail (30%) are leading among customers. Significant shares in revenue are occupied by companies in the financial sector (15%), industry (11%) and transport (6%).

The greatest demand in 2023 was shown by the data center services and IaaS solutions that Linx customers used to scale the current infrastructure, backup and create Disaster Recovery sites. Customers also actively placed test environments and sandboxes in the cloud. The leader in growth in the company is the demand for office software provided by the service model, as well as information security services in the cloud.

Linx expanded its product offering in 2023. In response to a market request in the field import substitution and security, the Linx Cloud portfolio of cloud products has a private cloud, virtualizations SharxBase UZ-1 built on a domestic system and certified for the highest level of security.

The information security industry expanded in 2023 with new partnerships and the addition of SaaS services to the product portfolio, such as the next generation virtual firewall (NGFW), the MFA multifactor authentication solution, and SAST, a static code analyzer for protecting applications during development. The company also strengthened the protection of the perimeter of public cloud services and completely replaced information security services with domestic solutions.

Linx Datacenter in 2023 confirmed the certification of the data center operation processes according to the Uptime Institute Management & Operations Stamp of Approval standard, becoming the only data center operator in Russia who successfully passed this audit 4 times.

Having accumulated the knowledge and experience gained during the long-term management of data centers with 100% uptime, the Linx Datacenter team of experts published the book "Data Center Operation. A practical guide. " The book received high marks from the leadership of the Uptime Institute in Russia, the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia and data center market players.

Data center operation expertise turned out to be a popular market, and Linx Datacenter began offering an audit service for data center operation processes to corporate clients. In addition, Linx Datacenter specialists developed a lecture course on data center operation, monitoring, access control and fire safety systems and joined the data center management course organized by the Data Center and Cloud Technology Coordination Council (ANO CS DPC) as practicing expert lecturers.

In 2023, the company rebranded, changing its name from Linxdatacenter to Linx and highlighting two sub-brands under which data centers and cloud services are developing: Linx Datacenter and Linx Cloud. Another significant event was the 20th anniversary of work in the Russian market, which the company celebrated among customers and partners.

2023 was one of the significant periods in the development of the company. We strengthened the top management team and technical expertise, expanded the product portfolio. We have prepared a reserve for the outstripping growth of the company, the first fruits of which have already become visible at the end of 2023. However, I want to note that the security and resiliency of our customers' business has been and remains an absolute priority for us. Therefore, we care about ensuring the maximum reliability of the provided infrastructure, - summarizes Mikhail Vetrov, CEO of Linx.

History

2024: Attending TAdviser IT Retail Day

Representatives of Linx Cloud and Comm Cloud will take part in the IT Retail Day 2024 conference and open it with a discussion on the topic "Why does the client with his IT infrastructure need external contractors? The Faberlik Experience. " Read more here.

2023

Changing Brand Architecture

As part of the cloud business strategy, Linxdatacenter announced on July 26, 2023 that it was changing the brand architecture - moving from a monobrand to an umbrella brand. Linx becomes the main brand of the company, and Linx Datacenter and Linx Cloud become sub-brands, as equivalent lines of business.

Linxdatacenter - provider services in the field data storage with its own DPC level III Tier in and, To Moscow St. Petersburg operating in the Russian market since 2003. Since 2013, services have also been included in the product portfolio - IaaS a disaster-resistant cloud platform was deployed on the basis of two, data centers since then several dozen large companies have been located in the cloud.

For a long time, clouds were additional services of the company that did not occupy a significant share in the business, while the data center services remained a key competence. The cloud services market in Russia received a powerful impetus, and the company's cloud services were separated into a separate strategic business area. In this regard, there is a need to change the company's brand.

The key competence of the "datacenter" contained in the name prevents the company from being perceived as a cloud provider and provider of complex ones. IT services Along with services, DPC the company is developing IaaS and, PaaS as well as services for the creation private clouds and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Cloud is scheduled to take a stake of about 50% in the company's business by 2025. To support development plans, the company needs a scalable brand, "said Elena Dukhovnaya to marketing PR Linx Director and Company.

The ideology of the brand and identity have not undergone significant changes. According to Elena Spiritual, the Linx brand is still based on the idea of ​ ​ connectivity (from the word link). The company strives to ensure that the solutions provided to the customer - cloud or data center services - ensure that all IT resources work as a single organism.

Working in close conjunction with the customer's team is another facet of Linx's ideology, which stems from the company's values ​ ​ - customer centric, passion for excellence, one team, integrity, - notes Elena Dukhovnaya.

Linx is the main brand, positioned as a provider of comprehensive services in the field of IT infrastructure, clouds, security and data center. In connection with the rebranding, the provider has already moved its website to the domain linx.ru.

Linx Datacenter becomes a sub-brand, under which the company's network of commercial data centers in two capitals and regions of Russia will continue to operate and develop.

Linx Cloud is positioned as a customizable cloud, on the basis of which the provider provides IaaS and PaaS services, a private cloud, and also helps customers create a hybrid cloud infrastructure for the specific requirements of large customers, integrate it with on-premium customer infrastructure.

Clouds for Big Business: Three Stages of Embracing the Inevitable

Most companies cloud services adapt to and platforms in stages. We provide services and, and DPC. cloudy provider Thanks to the combination of functions, we have been observing the transformation IT of the -landschaft of our customers for years and have found patterns in this process, says the head of cloud products and solutions. Linx Cloud Oleg Fedorov Read more here.

Attending TAdviser IT Infrastructure Day 2023

Linx, a provider of high-tech IT solutions and cloud services for business, will take part in the TAdviser conference "IT Infrastructure Day 2023," which will be held in Moscow on April 19, 2023. Read more here.

2022

Revenue growth by 2.7% to 1,580 million rubles

At the end of 2022, Linxdatacenter's revenue increased by 2.7% to 1,580 million rubles. In the ranking "TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2023," such an indicator allowed the company to take 177 lines (77 lines of the list of applicants for inclusion in the number of the largest IT companies in Russia).

Vetrov Mikhail appointed general director

On November 10, 2022, Linxdatacenter announced the appointment of Mikhail Vetrov as its new CEO. He replaced Andrei Perekrest, who worked in this post for only six months. Read more here.

Increasing the Cloud Engineering Team

The Linxdatacenter service provider, which provides services based on two of its own data centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg, announced on September 30, 2022 that it had doubled the team of specialists who ensure the performance and development of the LinxCloud cloud platform.

The LinxCloud cloud is one of the central services in the provider's line, the demand for cloud services is growing steadily. In the first half of 2022, Linxdatacenter increased computing power (30%) and DSS resources for the cloud (50%) in response to growing business needs.

Our cloud team has been strengthened to ensure the reliability and resiliency of existing resources in the cloud, as well as to develop new directions and solutions. We are faced with an ambitious task of developing our own cloud platform based on open source, "said Dmitry Shchegolkov, head of the Linxdatacenter integration department.

Linxdatacenter's business plan for 2022-2023. included an increase in server capacity and staff: these measures have already been implemented.

As of September 2022, the Linxdatacenter team is focused on developing cloud products in the field of storage and data processing, as well as solutions to strengthen information security.

According to forecasts of Linxdatacenter analysts, in 2022 the demand for Russian cloud services from local customers will increase by a third compared to the previous year. The main tasks of the company's cloud direction are to ensure the operation of existing services while maintaining a high level of SLA and the development of new services that close the current business tasks of customers.

Andrei Perekrest is the new CEO of Linxdatacenter

On May 13, 2022, Andrei Perekrest was appointed the new CEO of Linxdatacenter. In this post, he replaced Olga Sokolova, who, as noted in the company, during her leadership "did a tremendous job of bringing the business to a new level." Read more here.

Obtaining state accreditation of the Ministry of Digital Development

Linxdatacenter has received state accreditation from the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia in the register of organizations operating in the field of IT. This status will allow the company to effectively operate in the cloud services market for the public sector. Linxdatacenter announced this on March 22, 2022.

The accreditation procedure was initiated taking into account the company's plans to enter a new segment of the cloudy service market for it - the public sector. The emphasis on this market segment is due to the rapidly growing needs of the state apparatus for digitalization and the current tasks of implementing the program - import substitution IT products and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

The public sector needs a choice of ready-made IT solutions from providers with experience in building complex projects with geodistributed calculations, a high SLA level and a customer satisfaction index. The level of technological and business competencies of Linxdatacenter allows us to form an adequate offer of services and products for the B2G market, "comments Olga Sokolova, CEO of Linxdatacenter.

The public sector within the framework of the Linxdatacenter development strategy is divided into two main areas: departmental organizations (state unitary enterprises, administrations, etc.) and companies with state participation.

Previously, the set of solutions will include the launch of TARM (a typical automated workplace of a civil servant) and a certified platform for GIS based on domestic software.

The development of cloud solutions for the public sector will rely on the possibilities of a multiple expansion of computing resources in the LinxCloud cloud platform and on partnerships with hyperscalers, the profile of which allows you to work with state-owned companies.

It is planned to develop a comprehensive offer for the Colocation + Cloud Services model, on the basis of which industry products will be created in the B2G segments based on an ecosystem of high-tech services, for example, smart city solutions.

2021

Linxdatacenter Presence Map

Total revenue growth by 11% to RUB 1.3 billion

On March 1, 2022, Linxdatacenter presented the financial results of 2021: total revenue reached 1.3 billion rubles (excluding VAT), which is 11% higher than the same indicator in 2020 Ranking TAdviser100: The largest IT companies in Russia 2022 Linxdatacenter took 188th place.

Revenue growth for 2021 in the cloud business segment amounted to 20% compared to last year. Thus, for the second year in a row, Linxdatacenter has significantly increased the implementation of cloud products and services.

In 2021, Linxdatacenter announced the launch of a project to create a leading cloud service in Russia. The basis for the project will be assets, business experience and technological expertise of Linxdatacenter.

From the point of view of technological development, the cloud platform LinxCloud in 2021 received a number of opportunities. Tools were launched for all reservations data Linxdatacenter sites (in, and To Moscow) St. Petersburg for To Warsaw users using a combination of "+ Veeam vCloud" tools.

The Moscow segment of the Linxdatacenter cloud has been certified for compliance with the IT infrastructure requirements for the second level of personal data security (UZ-2). This made it possible to increase the level of security of customer IT systems and expand the range of services provided as part of PD processing projects.

The company also confirmed the compliance of the IT infrastructure and operational processes with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard 3.2.1) standard, demonstrating the high level of security of IT services and cloud solutions (IaaS) regarding the tasks of storing, processing and transferring payment card data .

The Linxdatacenter site in St. Petersburg with a record confirmed the fulfillment of the requirements of the Management & Operations Stamp of Approval standard from the Uptime Institute.

At the end of the year, a client portal was launched as one of the stages of automation of the company's business processes.

Thanks to the intensive work of the Linxdatacenter team to optimize internal processes, the company's customer satisfaction index rose from 92.45% to 94.05%.

As part of the implementation of the business development strategy, in 2022 it is planned to expand the Linxdatacenter staff by more than 30%. The Company also continued its last-year internship program aimed at training beginners.

In 2021, about 30% of employees developed their professional and personal competencies, successfully completing training in product launch, development, security, network technologies, working with Cisco, Veeam and Microsoft Azure solutions, as well as according to the Uptime Institute Tier Standard: Topology standard.

We are satisfied with the annual results of our work. The company managed to build on the successes of 2020 and lay a reliable foundation for development in 2022. This year we plan to expand in several areas, including new segments, regions and technological areas to meet the demand of Russian companies in the year of global changes for business, "said Olga Sokolova, CEO of Linxdatacenter.

Acquisition of ER-Telecom Holding, RDIF and Talos Fund I LP 100% Svyaz VSD LLC

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, the sovereign wealth fund of the Russian Federation), together with ER-Telecom Holding (TM Дом.ru and Дом.ru Business) and the Middle East Talos Fund I LP, specializing in investments in promising technologies, including in the field of artificial intelligence, on April 19, 2021 announced joint investments in the creation of an autonomous cloud service in Russia based on the assets of Linxdatacenter.

The consortium of investors invested in the acquisition of 100% of Svyaz VSD LLC, a subsidiary of the Dutch telecommunication Linxdatacenter in. The RUSSIAN FEDERATION investment perimeter includes a cloudy platform LinxCloud and two large (data centers data center) To Moscow in and a total St. Petersburg area of ​ ​ 13,400 square meters. m, operating in accordance with international quality standards. Tier III

It is planned that the main task of the joint cloud platform will be to ensure that the largest the Russian and international companies are necessary virtual infrastructure to fulfill key tasks, maintain business continuity and reduce business risks. The cloud strategy involves expanding the portfolio of virtual services, primarily using world technologies artificial intelligence in cooperation with international partners of the RDIF.

"The acquisition of Linxdatacenter assets together with a Russian strategic player and a Middle East partner with access to unique technological solutions is aimed at fulfilling a large-scale task of accelerating the development of Russian digital infrastructure. The priority area for our platform is the development of a cloud service in Russia based on advanced artificial intelligence technologies. Successful implementation of the project will be possible due to the use of RDIF's experience in implementing projects in the field of high technologies, technological support for ER-Telecom, as well as attracting expertise from the fund's international partners, "said Kirill Dmitriyev, General Director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

"Linxdatacenter is a pioneer in the commercial data center industry, has good management experience in creating, maintaining and selling its services. For us, the acquisition of Svyaz SVD LLC together with RDIF is a good opportunity to enter the cloud commercial data center market and expand the range of services for our B2B customers. In the next two years, we plan to significantly expand the capabilities of existing data centers, build and increase additional capacities through additional initiatives, "said Andrey Kuzyaev, President of ER-Telecom Holding JSC.

"Linxdatacenter began operations in 2003 as one of the first commercial data centers in Russia. For two decades, Linx has been an obvious choice for international and Russian companies in need of high-quality storage, cloud and telecommunications solutions. During the global pandemic, Linxdatacenter grew rapidly, and the owners concluded that the optimal moment had come for the company to move to the next level of development. The management team and resources of the consortium of buyers are an obvious path to success, "commented Heyko H. Koop, President of Linx Telecommunications Holding B.V.

"This investment opens the next phase of the company's development while maintaining all of Linxdatacenter's core achievements over the past 20 years. These include a loyal customer base, a multi-vector model for the development of the product portfolio, a focus in the cloud strategy on connectivity with global providers, as well as an emphasis on constant improvement of operational processes for managing data centers. Since Linxdatacenter is one of the long-term players in the Russian market of data centers and cloud services, the interest of large investors in the company in the prospect of market development is natural. At the end of 2020, the Linxdatacenter cloud platform showed an increase of 30%. New business partners will help the company strengthen its market position and accelerate development by consolidating technical and financial resources for the long term, "added Olga Sokolova, CEO of Linxdatacenter in Russia.

2020

Revenue in Russia - 1,171 million rubles

At the end of 2020, Linxdatacenter's revenue in Russia amounted to 1,171 million rubles.

Inclusion in the TAdviser rating "Largest IT Service Providers"

Linxdatacenter is included in the ranking "Largest Suppliers IT services Russia by Revenue for 2020," prepared TAdviser in December 2021. More. here

Growth of 30% in the cloud segment

Linxdatacenter, an international expert in high-tech storage solutions, cloud services and telecommunications, announced the financial results of 2020 on March 17, 2021. Business growth amounted to 8%, the largest increase was observed in the cloud segment - by 30% compared to 2019.

These indicators generally exceeded market expectations: analysts at Gartner and iKS-Consulting predicted, amid crisis changes in the economy, an increase in the volume of the public cloud services market in Russia in 2020 in the amount of 20% to 27%.

Linxdatacenter experts note that the service market DPC Russia in has developed in 2020, primarily due to the increased needs of the business states and in cloud services, providing virtualizations IT infrastructures secure and scalable digital environments for remote work employees.

In 2020, Linxdatacenter launched an entire ecosystem of solutions based on the resources of its own data centers and global cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services. This approach allowed IT resources to grow rapidly as workloads skyrocketed.

Linxdatacenter's business growth was also driven by demand for consulting services in terms of data center operations. The company launched the Data Center Management Outsourcing service, which includes audit, modernization and operation of data centers.

In addition, the market has clearly demonstrated the growing need for comprehensive solutions for building and maintaining a network infrastructure - within the framework of Network-as-a-Service. A large project in this direction was implemented in the summer of 2020 for a large industrial enterprise.

As part of the strategy of continuous development of competencies and improving the quality of services, Linxdatacenter received certification PCI DSS 3.2.1 (international industry security standard). payment cards The company has also been recertified to confirm Uptime Institute's Management & Operations Stamp of Approval. Linxdatacenter Data Center is still the only commercial data center in Russia with this quality mark.

The next step in developing the expertise for Linxdatacenter was certification according to ISO 22301:2019 "Business Continuity," which characterizes the security of business processes from interruptions.

2020 forced companies to focus extremely on their core business and conduct accelerated digitalization, bringing an increasing number of IT tasks into the competence of specialized IT providers. The main challenge for data centers in this light was the ability to respond in time to changes in the economy and quickly offer the market technological solutions. We have made sure that our solutions, platforms and processes are adapted to force majeure, and the team is able to quickly and professionally respond to market changes, "says Olga Sokolova, CEO of Linxdatacenter in Russia.

2019

Summing up the year

On January 29, 2020, Linxdatacenter, an expert in the field of high-tech solutions storages and processing, and data, cloud services telecommunications announced the results of its activities in 2019 in the market of commercial service providers. data centers Russia

The main focus of the company's work in 2019 was the development of IT services focused on solving specific business problems.

Throughout 2019, the topic of protecting personal data in the light of legislative initiatives in Russia and the EU remained in focus, which was reflected in the launch of Linxdatacenter's Protected Cloud 152-FZ service. This is a comprehensive virtual infrastructure rental service for companies working with personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation. The service implements information protection measures that meet the requirements of the Federal Law "On Personal Data" dated 27.07.2006 No. 152-FZ. The service is intended for companies that regularly work with personal data (medicine, insurance, banks, electronic commerce) and helps businesses comply with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation in relation to the placed IT infrastructure. Customers of the company solve a significant part of the tasks related to ensuring compliance with the law, according to the "single window" principle and under a single contract.

In 2019 DPCs , the Linxdatacenter network services pool continued to develop. The company has launched a comprehensive solution for building and maintaining a network infrastructure, a service for creating and managing a client autonomous system, to reservation a network infrastructure solution and backup remote access to network equipment.

In addition, the list of Linxdatacenter services has been replenished with a container management service, an equipment disposal service, as well as its own traffic exchange point (IX).

The implementation of the solutions was accompanied by an increase in the expertise of the company's employees in Linxdatacenter cloud services, including working with the global cloud platform AWS.

One of the indicators of the company's productive work was the inclusion of Linxdatacenter in the industry ratings of leading analytical agencies evaluating such areas of the Russian IT market as services for telecom operators, the IaaS segment, and IT solutions for retail. The company showed good results in the list of the top 100 largest IT companies in Russia according to TAdviser.

We positively assess the results of 2019 in all areas selected as strategic. Improving the level of network connectivity, developing the direction of information security, adding the possibility of building IT systems based on a hybrid cloud, launching a solution for posting personal data - all these Linxdatacenter business areas in 2019 met expectations as drivers for the company's development. According to preliminary results, the company's revenue grew by 13%. In 2020, our development priorities will focus on expanding our presence in Moscow, further increasing competencies in information security services, as well as bringing the network infrastructure to a different level to build modern multi-cloud solutions through cooperation with international providers, comments CEO of Linxdatacenter in Russia Olga Sokolova

License of the FSB of Russia for work on data encryption

On July 11, 2019, Linxdatacenter announced that it had received a license FSB of Russia for a set of activities under to enciphering data (), cryptography including working with information systems. The license applies to the main activities listed in Resolution Governments of the Russian Federation No. 313 and FZ-99 of 16.04.2012 and is of an indefinite nature.

The document is expected to help Linxdatacenter develop its business as a service provider for a wide range of IT services in Russia. In particular, licensing will help the company increase its autonomy in ensuring the protection of customer data and expand the range of services provided as part of personal data processing projects.

Questions information security are especially relevant for a number of reasons: this is influenced by both the growing volume of existing types of data, and the emergence of new models of interaction between people, companies and. states The data is multiplying, their value is growing, they are becoming an attractive object of new species on the attacks part of attackers. No additional means of protecting them in this light should be considered redundant, especially when it comes DPC to, says Boris Merkulov cloudy Linxdatacenter, a solutions and information security engineer.

According to Linxdatacenter, the company is systematically working to improve the security of data storage, processing and transmission systems in its data centers. The FSB encryption license has become the next stage in the development of Linxdatacenter's information security competencies, and its receipt coincides with the beginning of the development of new network solutions in the company's practice, which will guarantee the proper quality of data protection using advanced encryption tools approved at the state level.

Obtaining a FSB license is a continuation of the organic growth of Linxdatacenter's information security competencies. Despite the fact that this kind of license is not mandatory for the provision of data center services, the demand for such a license from the service provider has remained consistently high over the past few years. This is often due to the requirements of tenders for the purchase of data center services, but customers who purchase services outside of tender procedures are extremely interested in receiving services under a single window system. We are interested in expanding our portfolio and implementing new interesting and ambitious projects. In our activities, we pay the most serious attention to the compliance of our work processes with both the best international standards and the legislation of the Russian Federation. Ultimately, our improvement in this direction will benefit primarily from customers, both new and those with whom we have been cooperating for a long time. Expanding our expertise will help both in the implementation of their tasks, "added Olga Ermakova, senior legal adviser and compliance specialist at Linxdatacenter.

SAP Cloud and Infrastructure Certification

On April 3, 2019, Linxdatacenter announced the passage of SAP certification for cloud and infrastructure solutions.

As of April 2019, only two companies in Russia, including Linxdatacenter, are certified by SAP as providers of cloud and infrastructure solutions. This status confirms that the Linxdatacenter cloud infrastructure and services are optimized for SAP and DBDSAP HANA applications and can provide customers with the full functionality of SAP solutions.

The audit included checking the technical characteristics of the infrastructure and the qualification of personnel for compliance with SAP criteria, inspecting the Linxdatacenter data center and reviewing the documentation. In particular, the service portfolio, professional skills and certification of specialists, the organization of virtual infrastructure, the security system in the data center, the network organization scheme, the management of IT services and their redundancy were evaluated. The audit concluded that Linxdatacenter is an SAP-Certified Provider of Cloud and Infrastructure Operations.

Passing SAP certification is an important assessment of the results of our ongoing work on improving infrastructure and internal processes. We are also pleased that our customers using SAP will now have additional confidence in the stability of their IT systems and business applications, "says Olga Sokolova, CEO of Linxdatacenter.

Total Linxdatacenter data center area - 13,400 m2

In March 2019, it became known that after the sale of the data center in Warsaw, the total area of ​ ​ Linxdatacenter data centers was 13,400 m2.

The company owns data centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg with a total volume of 2,020 racks and a total area of ​ ​ 13,400 m2. Data centers meet the Tier III reliability level and are certified according to ISO 27001, ISO 9001, PCI DSS, Management & Operations Stamp of Approval (Uptime Institute) standards.

Linxdatacenter's business Russia is represented by divisions in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The company provides cloud solutions and services in the field data storage in its own level TIER III data centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as on the basis of a partner data center in Warsaw.

Linxdatacenter's portfolio includes a private access service for global cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.

The company's experience is more than 18 years.

2018

Total revenue growth of 9%

In March 2019, Linxdatacenter reported revenue figures for 2018. Total revenue amounted to 1,128 million rubles. with VAT and showed an increase of 9%. Colocation revenue in 2018 amounted to 934.3 million rubles. with VAT and increased by 7% compared to 2017.

35% Increase in Revenue from Virtualization Solutions

Linxdatacenter, an international expert in high-tech data storage and processing solutions, cloud services and telecommunications, summed up 2018 in the cloud direction on February 26, 2019. Linxdatacenter's revenue from providing virtualization solutions grew 35% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Over the past year, Linxdatacenter has significantly expanded its cloud portfolio by launching a number of services: private access to Direct Cloud Connect global clouds, private cloud based on the Cisco HyperFlex server infrastructure, backup to the cloud Veeam Cloud Connect and the ultra-high availability solution for data and applications Veeam Backup & Replication.

According to Linxdatacenter, in 2018 there was an interest of customers in solutions for replacing the old equipment fund with customized cloud services. The company has implemented several complex private infrastructure projects. For each project, an adaptation plan was developed in accordance with the tasks of a particular customer, on the basis of which a fault-tolerant solution was implemented with placement at several sites and a reserved network connecting the IT infrastructure.

In 2019, Linxdatacenter plans to continue expanding its product line of additional services that close the most complex IT architecture and security requests.

Geography of Linxdatacenter services

Linxdatacenter is an international provider of high-tech solutions in the field of data storage cloudy services and telecommunications for business, headquartered in. Amsterdam

The geography of Linxdatacenter services covers the markets of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and Scandinavia. As of November 2018, the company provides innovative and flexible cloud solutions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Warsaw, as well as data storage services based on its own Tier III data centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Data centers are ISO 27001, ISO 9001, PCI DSS certified and comply with the Management & Operations Stamp of Approval (Uptime Institute) standard. The company's experience is more than 18 years.

Linxdatacenter also provides telecommunications services and integrated solutions for customer ICT infrastructure. The company built a cable network with redundant routes connecting the regions of Western Europe, North America, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe. Based on the data center, Linxdatacenter provides customers with equipment placement and broadband Internet access.

Total Linxdatacenter data center area - 14,800 m2

As of July 2018, the company owns data centers (data centers) in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Warsaw with a total volume of 2,730 racks and a total area of ​ ​ 14,800 m2. Data centers meet the Tier III reliability level and are certified according to ISO 27001, ISO 9001, PCI DSS, Management & Operations Stamp of Approval (Uptime Institute) standards. Linxdatacenter's business in Russia is represented by divisions in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The company's experience (as of July 2018) is more than 17 years.

2017: Revenue growth of the Russian division by 8%

The financial revenue of the Russian division amounted to 877 million rubles for 2017. In terms of data storage services, Linxdatacenter entered the top 5 largest Russian data center service providers. The growth of the business was influenced by the launch of the first hyperconverged cloud in Russia, the creation of an international center of expertise LinxLab, the implementation of the Fast Cross Cable project, the update of the pricing system and the simplification of technical support processes.

Linxdatacenter recorded revenue growth of 8% in 2017 compared to 2016. The main growth was shown by the directions associated with the placement of equipment and the provision of cloud services in two Russian Linxdatacenter data centers.

Online retailers and content providers have become the most prominent consumers of resources among Linxdatacenter customers. In general, Russian Linxdatacenter customers are showing growing interest in a hybrid model of IT infrastructure - using their own computing power and services from external cloud providers. Taking into account this trend, in 2017 Linxdatacenter continued to invest in the development of the data storage business, including through the sale of a non-core part of the business - the telecommunications segment, which allowed providing communication services from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan. Revenue from the sale of this financial segment made it possible to fully focus on strengthening the main areas - data center services and cloud solutions in Russia and Poland.

Thanks to its focus on colocation and cloud, the company has brought several storage solutions and services to market. In 2017, Linxdatacenter launched the first hyperconverged cloud in Russia. The partnership with the companies Cisco Systems made it possible to deploy a hyperconverged platform HyperFlex based on the Moscow data center, combining server and network automation, as well as distributed disk storage. This solution supports a range of applications and workloads for the data center, and platform management is fully automated. The basis was taken as a standard validated design of the company, Cisco which includes not only the platform, but also virtualizations backup data solutions.

Linxdatacenter has also launched the Fast Cross Cable (FCC) project to provide cross-country seamlessly. More than 40 telecom operators are represented in the Moscow data center Linxdatacenter, which obliges the data center to promptly respond to a request for cross-connect connections with them. Linxdatacenter changed the Cable management process, which allows you to quickly connect to operators or carry out operator changes within two hours.

Another result of the work in 2017 was the optimization of internal processes. The improvements made in both data centers primarily affected the convenience of customers. In particular, customers' access to their own racks has been automated, a comfortable space for working with equipment in the data center has been organized, and calls to the technical support service have been simplified.

2012: EtherLinx Carrier Grade Service Launch

In April 2012, a service was launched in the Etherlinx service package - EtherLinx Carrier Grade. In terms of its characteristics, the service is focused on the high requirements of international telecom operators and includes an Internet interface (NNI), network management and diagnostics (OAM) and quality of service (QOS).

The Etherlinx Carrier Grade service enables international operators to connect to the company's locations in Frankfurt, Stockholm and/or Moscow using gateway interfaces (NNIs), which will allow them to organize the required number of virtual communication channels (VLANs) through a single broadband physical interface, reducing connection costs and simplifying the management process.