Latvian telecoms operator Lattelecom’s new Tier III certified Dattum Data Center, scheduled to open in April in Riga, sits astride the “Baltic Highway” high speed, low latency data link between Moscow and Frankfurt and plans to offer cloud computing and big data services to customers in the East and West, according to Lattelecom CTO Uldis Tatarcuks.
Tatarcuks told East-West Digital News that Dattum was the only Tier III facility in the Nordic Baltic area and well positioned to offer or host low-latency cloud or big data services to future customers.
The Lattelecom CTO confirmed that the company was in talks with the German-based IT giant SAP to possibly host its HANA high-speed, in memory based big data solution. Lattelecom was also open to hosting rival big data solutions at the 1000 rackspace facility to offer customers a broad choice of services, Tatarcuks said.
The “Baltic Highway”, launched last September as a joint project by Russia’s Megafon, Lattelecom and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, claims a latency of 45 milliseconds between Moscow and Frankfurt, a parameter considered equally as important as data transmission speed in megabits or gigabits.
As a presence in Russia, Lattelecom may have to catch up with rival Latvian data center operator DEAC, which has opened a sales office in Moscow and sales 22% of its service exports, or around EUR 485 000 in 2012 went to Russia and other CIS countries. DEAC had export sales of EUR 2.2 million, comprising 45% of total turnover last year.
