Data centers

Russian data center major IXcellerate attracts $190 million from Mubadala, RDIF and Sber

January 25, 2022

IXcellerate, one of the most established data center company in Russia, has raised approximately some $190 million. The round — the largest ever in this field in the country  — was led by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala (UAE) with participation from its Russian peer RDIF, SberInvest, and iXcellerate’s existing investors.  Cited by Sber, the state-owned financial and digital …

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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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Russian company launches giant mining farm near St. Petersburg

September 18, 2018

Last month crypto mining service provider CryptoUniverse launched what it claims to be Russia’s biggest data center for cryptocurrency mining. Located in the industrial park Levoberezhnyi at Kyryshy, a town in the the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) region, the facility occupies 4,000 sq. m. and hosts 3,000 machines to mine Bitcoins and Litecoins. “We are offering …

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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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LinkedIn blocked in Russia: A welcome warning for global players?

November 29, 2016

Earlier this month the Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor blocked access to LinkedIn for non-compliance with recent legislation on personal data storage. EWDN chief editor Adrien Henni analyzes the significance of this move far beyond Russia’s borders.   Adopted in 2014 and applicable since September 2015, the law requires companies operating in Russia to store Russian …

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Selectel makes GPU server leasing available in Russia

July 22, 2016

Earlier this week Selectel, a major Russian hosting and cloud service provider, announced the launch of a GPU hosting offer in the country. GPU (graphics processing unit) servers are intended for executing high-performance and memory-intensive tasks. Their processors significantly reduce the execution time for computations, which is critical for neural network algorithms, modelling and analyzing physical processes, drafting, real-time …

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Russian authorities block, then unblock, Amazon’s cloud service

June 26, 2016

Earlier this week Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, added Amazon’s cloud storage domain (s3.amazonaws.com) to the register of prohibited sites, before cancelling this access restriction. The web address was included into the register on June 21, although the Tax Service had already ordered to do so in May. According to Russian tech blog Habrahabr, the …

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Panasonic bets on Russian software to run data for 100 years

June 13, 2016

Panasonic and Raidix, a St. Petersburg based IT developer, have partnered to create a unique data management and storage system to be run by Russian software. An MoU was inked earlier this month, announced Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, also a participant in the deal. The partners are said to be planning to develop a brand new product enabling …

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Russian scientists work on quartz-based data storage that can hold data forever

May 26, 2016

Glass through which we see the world may soon be used as a data storage system that can outlive mankind. A new five dimensional (5D) digital data storage technology uses nano-structured quartz glass to store information. Scientists at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology say they can make these new storage devices the size and …

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Rostelecom’s venture fund invests 100 million rubles in data storage solution provider

November 24, 2016

CommIT Capital, the venture arm of Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom, has made its first investment, injecting 100 million rubles (almost $1.4 million at the current exchange rate) in Raidix, a data storage solution provider. The fund received a 30% stake in the company, Russian business daily Vedomosti learned from official sources. Radix offers high performance …

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Should Google store its data in Siberia?

February 7, 2016

Yakutia is the coldest populated region in the world. Located in the northeastern part of Siberia, this semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation is home to the village of Oymyakon, a place known as the Pole of Cold that registers temperatures of -70 degrees Celsius. Permafrost covers a large part of Yakutia’s territory, and this is precisely …

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