Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, has launched the construction of a mega data center, located on the premises of the Serp i Molot factory in Moscow. The center’s storage capacity has not been disclosed, but the server rooms will occupy some 10 thousand square meters – twice as much as Sberbank’s existing mega data center in the capital.
The new data center – the first rooms of which are scheduled for launch in the second half of 2013 – will run the national cloud computing platform ordered by the Russian government.
The project was revealed earlier this month by Rostelecom’s Vice President Alexey Nashchekin in an exchange with CNews.ru, an online publication covering the Russian IT and telecom markets.
“The new center is currently at the project stage”, Nashchekin said. “Uptime Institute is the strategic consultant for the project and we are going to certify the project and then the ground on Tier III with it”.
Rostelecom was appointed in March of last year to develop the national cloud computing platform. The company announced its intention to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $330 million) into the project.
