Nival, a global developer of cross-platform strategy games, announced today that it has secured $6 million from the Russian fund Almaz Capital to fuel its global expansion strategy. The valuation of this Series A round has not been disclosed. To date Nival has been financed by CEO and founder Sergey Orlovskiy, who holds a majority …
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Technoserv, a leading Russian systems integrator and IT service provider since 1992, announced last week that the design of its Technopark-Mordovia data center was certified as Tier IV Fault Tolerant by the Uptime Institute, a NY-based data center researcher and consultancy. Located in Saransk some 640km east of Moscow, the data center is now Russia’s …
Russian data center receives highest Uptime Institute certification for the first time Read More
Intersoft-Eurasia, a Russian developer of hardware and software solutions for mobile devices, has unveiled its plans to market a next-gen SIM card. Fully compatible with the standard SIM card slot, the new solution is designed to support numerous phone numbers from different mobile operators. The ultimate goal is to put an end to what the …
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London, UK & Moscow, Russia – IXcellerate, Moscow’s premier carrier neutral datacenter, today announces that Orange Business Services, a leading global integrator of communications solutions, has established a point of presence in IXcellerate Moscow One Datacentre. This move creates an access point that connects the datacenter to Orange’s high-speed multi-service network, offering both IXcellerate and Orange …
Last week Maxfield Capital, a Moscow-based $100 million venture fund, and Altair, the investment vehicle of serial business angel Igor Ryabenkiy, announced a seed-stage investment in Qbaka, an award-winning startup developing a solution to track JavaScript errors on web services. The round amounted to $200,000, but may be completed with other investors, Qbaka’s co-founder Andrey …
Moscow-based IT service provider Active Cloud Development has teamed up with Moscow Seed Fund and Softline Venture Partners to develop an innovative IaaS (infrastructure as a service) platform christened “CloudBox.” The three partners have brought in $1 million to finance the project. Designed for data centers, mobile operators, and government organizations, the platform is described …
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How difficult is Russia as an investment destination for an international investor? Acclimation, at least, is not a problem, according to Intel Capital’s President Arvind Sodhani who celebrated the fund’s ten years of activity in Russia earlier this month. “I imagine Moscow as a city covered by 10 feet of snow, but every time I …
The Russian government has named pharmaceutical and biomedical as priority sectors for innovation, and has set a fairly ambitious strategic goal of increasing the share of domestic medical equipment products in the Russian market to at least 40%. In these highly important fields, two new players have emerged recently in Russia, assisted by the global …
Russian innovators offer solutions for mobile medicine; Cisco backs hi-tech endeavors Read More
Moscow – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary NTT Com Russia will offer a wide range of data center services in Russia viaIXcellerate’s Moscow One carrier-neutral data center in Moscow, beginning with colocation services in May, this year. IXcellerate’s recently completed facility offers premium enterprise-class data center services in a …
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Moscow region entrepreneur Maxim Lagutin, 23, has come up with a powerful weapon against bureaucracy in Russia: his B-152 service independently processes and prepares companies’ personal data records of customers and staff for supervisory agencies. The service is offered for an annual fee of $250–1,600 and with an optional insurance policy. The service was named …
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Russian search giant Yandex is getting ready to build a data center in neighboring Finland, its third such facility outside Russia. The project is slated to break ground in August on an 8-hectare parcel 60km north of Helsinki that Yandex purchased from the Mäntsälä municipality for 1.5 million euros, Tatyana Komarova of Yandex’s press service …
New Yandex Finnish data center to enjoy cool climate and trim costs Read More
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 …
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