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Sberbank MegaData Center in Balakovo

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MegaData Center "South Port"

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

Sberbank's main IT systems are centralized on the basis of the Yuzhny Port megaData Center, which was opened in 2011.

MegaData Center 2 in Skolkovo

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2024: The number of servers in all data centers of Sberbank reached 63 thousand units

As of September 2024, the number of servers in all data centers (data centers) of Sberbank exceeded 63 thousand units. The organization is the owner of the largest fleet of computing power and the largest consumer of microelectronics in Russia. This was announced on September 23, 2024 by the head of Sberbank German Gref Gref^[1]

We have more than 63 thousand servers for various purposes in our four data centers. Today we are the largest consumer of microelectronics and specialists related to this, "Gref notes.

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According to him, there is a shortage of specialists in the field of microelectronics in the world. According to experts, until 2030, the shortage of such employees on a global scale will be up to 1 million people. According to Sberbank's estimates, the deficit in Russia will be at the level of 50 thousand people, even if the planned growth is taken into account when training specialists in universities. Gref said that Sber cooperates with the departments of various Russian universities, selecting and helping to train talented specialists.

The head of Sberbank also announced the need for state support for microelectronics. This is one of the most difficult and competitive industries, and its development requires significant financial investments. With a high key rate, the role of existing state programs for financing industry enterprises increases. He stressed the importance of maintaining preferential tax regimes and expanding subsidy programs. As an example, German Gref cited foreign experience, where states invest a lot in the development of the industry^[2].

2022: Sberbank launched a data center in Kazakhstan

In June 2022, Sberbank launched its third data center in Kazakhstan. We are talking about a reserve data center, which was deployed on the basis of the infrastructure of Transtelecom JSC in Karaganda as part of a project to build a catastrophic IT infrastructure of the bank.

2021: Sberbank began construction of the largest data center in Russia

Sberbank on September 7, 2021 informed TAdviser about the start of construction on the territory of the special economic zone in Balakovo of the largest regional data processing center (DPC) in Russia. Read more here.

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

At the end of October 2020, it became known Sberbank data center about the intention to build a new one in the southeast. Moscow The placement of the object is planned at the address: 2nd Yuzhnoportovy proezd, house 12a, building 1, 12A possession. There is already a mega-data center of Sberbank "South Port," which is considered one of the largest banking data centers in Vostochny. To Europe More. here

2015: Target Data Center Architecture until 2020

The concept of Sberbank provides that in 2019-2020. it should have a total of three own data centers, said Nikita Volkov, senior vice president of IT at the bank, 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 with each of its 16 territorial banks. Banking systems were installed locally at 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 in Moscow, a new large data center was created - MegaData Center "South Port," where all critical systems of Sberbank are now based.

MegaData Center of Sberbank "South Port" in miniature

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

The task of Sberbank for 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 1,000 km from Moscow, presumably in the Urals. According to him, preliminary work on this project has already begun. This data center will act as a backup site.

While Sberbank does not have its own reserve data centers, it leases three reserve data centers in Moscow. Nikita Volkov explains the need to lease three data centers at once by the fact that Sberbank did not find a single backup data center for the level of the Yuzhny Port megaData Center.

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