Russian Post Created United Data Center

2018

Complete Data Center Creation

In January 2019, Russian Post announced the completion of the creation of a joint data center. It was implemented on the basis of the TrustInfo data center owned by I-Teco in Moscow and the Rostelecom data center in Adler.

As part of the project, the necessary capacities were prepared, and part of the Russian Post IT systems was transferred to new servers. Channels of interaction and data transfer between data centers were also developed, counters were provided for placing the equipment of the Russian Post and integration with its main information and computing center in Moscow. Integration is also provided with the system of interdepartmental electronic interaction (SMEV) and other information resources.

Based on this infrastructure, Russian Post will continue to reserve key logistics management and service delivery services.

In the future, Russian Post is considering the opening of a data center in the eastern part of the country "(photo - RIA Novosti)"

The company expects that a single data center will ensure the development, support for the work and reservation of IT systems of the headquarters of the Russian Post and 37 thousand postal facilities throughout the country. Its creation should allow more active use of large amounts of data, as well as continue the introduction of technologies based on artificial intelligence. Read more about the use of Big Data technologies in the Russian Post here.

The volume of data processed by Russian Post demonstrates steady growth along with the volume of the enterprise's business. In 2018, it will increase by more than 30%, to 16 petabytes, - said Sergey Emelchenkov, deputy general director of Russian Post for IT and new products.

According to Emelchenkov, the issue of diversifying data centers is important not only because existing capacities need to be reserved. In the capital region, there is a high demand for data center services, and competition for stability is quite serious.

2017

Reallocation of liabilities

On August 14, 2017, it became known that Rostelecom transferred to Servionica part of its obligations under the contract to provide the Russian Post with server and network resources for two data centers for its information systems. This is evidenced by the tender published by the operator in the format of procurement from the only possible supplier, which determined Servionica with a contract amount of 786.8 million rubles. There is no information on how the work is redistributed between the two project contractors.

All work on the consortium is distributed in accordance with the agreement on joint participation in the purchase, while the subject of the agreement, the roles of the participants and the structure of the transaction were not disclosed, "Inna Gubareva, a representative of Rostelecom, told CNews.

Meanwhile, a cursory comparison of the draft contracts for the basic tender of Post and the concluded contract of Rostelecom and Servionica did not allow CNews to reveal fundamental differences between them.^[1]

Data Center Lease

On February 22, 2017, it became known that Russian Post had leased distributed server and network capacities for three years for 2.24 billion rubles. Service providers "I-teco," "Rostelecom" and "Servionica."

The provision of server and network resources of two data centers to the Russian Post for the development and functioning of its information systems will be dealt with by I-teco, Rostelecom and Servionica. Their collective application won the corresponding tender of Post with an initial contract price of 2.62 billion^[2]

Competition to the triumvirate was made by the FSBI Research Institute "Voskhod," which offered 10.15 million rubles. and 2.55 billion for single and general services, respectively, "Onlanta" - 10.22 million rubles. and 2.57 billion, respectively.

According to the agreement, the lease of data center resources will last 36 months. One of the data centers provided to the Post should be inside Moscow, the other - outside the Moscow region.

The Contractor shall, on the basis of its own resources, organize a software and hardware complex (PAC), the main purpose of which is the development, functioning and redundancy of the Customer's information systems.

PAC should interact with the existing IT infrastructure of Post, located at its Main Information and Computing Center (GIVC) in Moscow, with the Internet and the interdepartmental electronic interaction system (CMEV).

2016: Tender

To ensure the functioning, redundancy and development of information systems, Russian Post plans to organize a hardware and software complex (PAC) on the basis of two geographically separated data centers. To this end, at the end of 2016, the postal operator announced an open tender with an initial price of 2.617 billion rubles.^[3]

Russian Post will spend more than 2.6 billion rubles on data center services

As part of the contract, the customer wants to receive a comprehensive service for the provision of server and network resources for a period of 3 years. PAC, organized on the basis of the provided resources, should provide interaction with the existing IT infrastructure located in the Main Information and Computing Center of the Russian Post, the Internet and the interdepartmental electronic interaction system (CMEV).

The comprehensive service includes the following components:

• Providing virtual computing power
• Providing physical computing power
• Provision of disk space in the SAN;
• Providing Network Resources
• Organization of communication and data transmission channels between data centers within the framework of the organized PAC
• Providing access to the Internet with protection against DDoS attacks
• Providing Traffic Analysis Module (L7 Layer)
• Provision of access to SMEV
• DNS organization
• Provision of racks in the contractor's data centers for placement by the customer's equipment
• Provision of specialists

The data centers of the contractor (or its contractor) must meet the reliability level according to the classification ANSI-TIA 942/2005 not lower than Tier 3 and have availability indicators of at least 99.982%.

The first data center should be located in Moscow within the Moscow Ring Road, no more than 20 km away. from the site of the Russian Post GIVC (Moscow. 37 Varshavskoe shosse) and have good transport accessibility, including for public transport: the data center should be located at a distance of no more than 1.5 km from the metro and no more than 500 m from ground public transport stops (in a straight line).

The second data center should be located within the borders of the Russian Federation, in another subject of the Russian Federation, except for the Moscow region (Moscow and the Moscow region) and have transport accessibility (the ability to get to the data center by public and personal transport).

Applications for participation in the competition are accepted until January 25, 2016. Summing up is scheduled for February 23, 2017.

In addition to data center services, Russian Post also needed software and hardware support services, for which the operator is ready to spend almost 1.5 billion rubles. The corresponding purchase was published at the end of December 2016.

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