OREANDA-NEWS. April 17, 2012. Askar Zhumagaliyev, Minister of transport and communications, Kuanyshbek Yessekeyev, Chairman of the Board of Kazakhtelecom JSC, Alexander Roy, Director of Hewlett-Packard consulting department in CIS participated in a solemn ceremony of launching by means of video conferencing, reported the press-centre of Kazakhtelecom.      

Innovational project – the largest Data processing center in CIS that meets TIER3 standard, was developed by Kazakhtelecom JSC jointly with Hewlett-Packard - Critical Facilities Services sub-division.

Data center of 1 000 sq.m, equipped with servers for data processing and storing, will allocate, systemize and backup internet resources data, register domain names and provide many physical and virtual services to internet users. By words of Kuanyshbek Yessekeyev, Chairman of the Board of Kazakhtelecom JSC, one of main priorities is infrastructure strengthening. "Unique COD in Pavlodar will allow Kazakhtelecom to become the first on the market of cloud services", - noted he. Head of the company added that it will be high reliability data center, which will allow completely backup all systems. Any preventive and repair works will be made uninterruptedly. Note, that at present 12 data-centers of the company provide services all over Kazakhstan.

Project is realized jointly with Hewlett-Packard company, which is world leader in construction of data-centers. "International НР experience in construction, servicing and transformation of COD will allow making Kazakhstan one of key players on a world IT market",- says Yerlan Dussenbin, Director General for Hewlett-Packard in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. By his words, this project is an important moment in the history of the country on promotion of innovation technologies in Kazakhstan.

Askar Zhumagaliyev, Minister of transport and communication highly evaluated project potential of the data-center. "Consolidation of resources and means of data storage in COD allow reducing the cost of IT-infrastructure at expense of effective usage of technical means, for instance, reallocation of loads, also at expense of reducing administration costs”- underlines minister.

Launching of data center to commercial exploitation is planned to September of current year.

For information
Internet Data Center, IDC – is a data processing center, representing a special complex of modern network and computing equipment, also special software. Thanks to some advantages, data center can organize on its platform any complexity project for state and bank structures, also large business representatives.