OREANDA-NEWS. January 13, 2010. Baltic Data Center, a leader in the management of data centers and information systems in the Baltic States, has become a Gold Partner of Oracle, a software company. Baltic Data Center, which has been cooperating with the world’s leader in its industry for eight years, is one of the first companies in the Baltic States to be awarded the high status of Oracle Gold Partner.

A year ago, Baltic Data Center, a company belonging to TEO LT, AB Group of companies, became a certified partner of Oracle.

According to Saulius Markunas, Director of Baltic Data Center, the strengthening of cooperation with Oracle has been enabled by continually improving the competencies of Baltic Data Center’s database specialists, while the awarded status of gold partnership will allow expanding the range of services offered to large companies.

“Having become a Gold Partner, Baltic Data Center will be able to offer customers all technological products of Oracle not only in Lithuania, but also in other countries. More importantly, the strengthened partnership ensures that these products will be installed and monitored by specialists with the highest level of competence in Oracle's solutions”, - Kristijonas Kaikaris, Country Manager of Oracle Lithuania, said.

From now on, Baltic Data Center’s specialists will be able to install and manage Oracle Application Server, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Database technological solutions, which provide the possibility for full integration of the most of business applications, allow efficient use of companies’ technological resources and ensure high availability and integrity of required data and systems.

Oracle’s most recent solutions are used in the provision of services to the biggest customers of Baltic Data Center – DnB NORD finance group, TEO and others.

About Baltic Data Center
Baltic Data Center, a company belonging to TEO LT, AB Group of companies, is a leader in the management of data centers and information systems in the Baltic States. The company provides complex IT management services – starting with customer equipment hosting within the data centers, which meet the highest requirements of security, and ending with the development and management of complex systems.
 
Having equipped the data center facility, which is one of the most modern ones in Eastern Europe, recently Baltic Data Center has been expanding its activities extremely fast – over the last three years the company allocated more than LTL 20 million for investments in technologies and in the knowledge of its specialists.  During this period, the number of employees has almost doubled and at the moment more than 180 specialists work for the company.
 
Baltic Data Center is the first company in its sector in the Baltic States the activities of which have been evaluated with the international certificate of compliance with the ISO 27001 standard confirming that the company’s activities comply with the strictest requirements for information security.

About Oracle
The world’s largest enterprise software company, Oracle is currently the world’s leading supplier of  database management systems, application infrastructure, identity management, enterprise content management (ECM), business intelligence (BI), enterprise performance management (EPM), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and human resources management (HRM) systems.

Oracle has developed special applications for public sector institutions, telecommunications, retail and finance sector companies. The largest Lithuanian companies and the majority of public sector institutions have chosen Oracle database management systems as the basis of their IT systems. Oracle’s technological solutions are well known in medium- and small-size enterprises as well. Oracle's partner network includes more than 60 Lithuanian IT companies. For more information about Oracle, please visit the web site at www.oracle.com.