Data storage & Data centers

IXcellerate and Rostelecom plan to invest massively in Russian data centers

February 11, 2019

Last week IXcellerate, a leading commercial data center operator in Russia, announced a five-year $260 million investment plan. The funding will be provided by the company’s shareholders as well as bank financing and an additional injection of “foreign capital.” By 2023, according to this plan, the company will operate the existing Moscow One Datacentre and run “at least four …

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Facebook and Twitter face administrative charges for non compliance with Russian data-localization law

January 22, 2019

Will Facebook and Twitter abide by the law on personal data storage, or could they ultimately be blocked in Russia like LinkedIn? The suspense remains as the two companies failed again last week, more than three years after the law came to force, to prove their compliance with it. Adopted in 2014 and applicable since September 2015, this law …

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Data leak affects thousands of wealthy Moscow residents

November 6, 2018

Thousands of wealthy Moscow residents who subscribed to a regional Internet provider have had personal data including names, home addresses and mobile numbers posted online. People affected by the data leak are all clients of Moscow-based internet provider Akado Telecom, a large telecommunications network owned by billionaire businessman Viktor Vekselberg, which said it had opened an …

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‘Big Brother law’ comes into force: Internet companies required to store massive amounts of content

July 3, 2018

New provisions of a controversial law on Internet communications came into force on July 1, with a government order requiring Internet companies to store the content and the metadata of all their users’ communications for a significant period of time Adopted in 2016, this new legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) has entailed huge costs for …

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Russian Internet regulator threatens to block Facebook for non-compliance with personal data storage law

September 27, 2017

Will Facebook be banned in Russia? This might happen next year, warned Roskomnadzor’s head Alexander Zharov yesterday, should the social network still fail to comply with the local legislation on personal data storage. “The law is mandatory for everyone. Either we will [have it] applied or the company will stop operating in Russia,” the RIA …

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Goldman Sachs invests $15 million in Russian data center

September 13, 2017

Yesterday IXcellerate, a UK-headquartered operator of datacenters in Russia, announced it has secured a $15 million convertible loan from Goldman Sachs. The bank Goldman Sachs, which will hold a 25% stake after conversion, has become the third key investor in IXcellerate after IFC and Sumitomo Corporation. Since its launch in 2011, IXcellerate has attracted $35 million …

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Experts from major players and innovative startups to discuss data storage technologies (Skolkovo, Oct. 26)

September 13, 2017

Prostor, a major data storage event in Eastern Europe offered by RAIDIX, will hold its third edition on October 26 in Skolkovo on the outskirts of Moscow. The event will bring together system integrators, storage vendors, IT suppliers, hardware manufacturers, representatives of CCTV integrators, media groups, TV channels, post-production studios, telecom companies, government agencies, major …

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No Telegram servers moved to Iran, says CEO Pavel Durov

July 31, 2017

Mahmoud Vaezi, the Iranian communications and information technology minister, was quoted Sunday as saying that Telegram has transferred some of its servers into the country. “As a result of meetings with Telegram managers, some of its servers have been moved to the country,” Vaezi was quoted as saying by Iran’s ISNA news agency. But Telegram …

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Telegram under pressure to get official registration with Russian authorities

May 17, 2017

Telegram, the international instant messenger which claims to guarantee its users a superior level of confidentiality, has  reiterated its refusal to disclose “any information” to any “government or special service in the world,” the Russian media have reported, citing company statements. Earlier this week, Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom regulator, requested Telegram to provide contact and other corporate information …

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Mobile operator MTS to store user data in pilot anti-terror scheme

May 11, 2017

Russian cell phone operator MTS will be the first company to start storing users’ data under controversial new anti-terror laws. MTS will be running a pilot program in an unnamed Russian city, Russia’s Vedomosti newspaper reported Wednesday. The trial run will test whether existing technology could be used to enforce the laws. The storage equipment needed for …

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AliExpress to open representation in Russia and comply with personal data storage law

March 22, 2017

Last week Alibaba subsidiary AliExpress announced that it is in the process of opening a local representation. Since 2014, the Chinese marketplace has asserted its preeminence on the Russian e-commerce market, which reached some $26 billion last year. Company representatives also confirmed the company’s intention to comply with Russian legislation, including the law which requires to …

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Implementation of Russia’s ‘Big Brother law’ could be postponed

March 16, 2017

Russia’s new “anti-terrorist” legislation could come into force in 2019 only (instead of 2018 as initially planned), allowing operators to implement it in better conditions. Examining this controversial legislation adopted last year, an official expert group led by Mikhail Abyzov, Russia’s Minister for Open Government affairs, has recommended that significant changes be brought to make its implementation less costly and more rational. …

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