OREANDA-NEWS. With a rapidly increasing need for data centre and information technology (IT) services, TEO will open a new modern data centre in second half of 2015. The general contractor of the project, the planned investment thereto is LTL 10 million, is UAB Fima.

"IT is a priority area of TEO operations, thus we constantly invest in the latest technologies and strengthen our position in the market. Not only do we provide IT infrastructure hosting services in our data centres, but various IT management services and security solutions as well. In communication with our business customers, we have noticed that both the demand for data centre services and services bought from external IT companies has been rapidly increasing, which shows that global trends of acquiring IT as a service has been increasingly gaining ground in Lithuania as well" - said Aleksandras Samuchovas, Head of Business Customer Department at TEO.

According to Aleksandras Samuchovas, the new data centre will be the eighth data centre owned by the company. Such expansion will grant TEO a competitive advantage in both Lithuanian and foreign markets, especially - in the IT service export segment.

The new data centre is built in strict compliance with high reliability level Tier III requirements, and will be certified in Uptime Institute.

The constructed data centre will have 106 server racks; planned IT capacity is 500 kW. Servers will be cooled using an energy-efficient KyotoCooling cooling system, which is already used in another TEO data centre located in Vilnius.

"The KyotoCooling system installed in the new data centre appropriate for Lithuanian climate will use outside air temperature for cooling servers 85 percent of time. TEO will be the first company in Europe and the third in the world having an installed KyotoCooling cooling system and a Tier III certificate. Also, the new data centre will have an effective environmentally friendly Novec 1230 anti-fire system" - said Valdas Vrubliauskas, Director of Automation and Data Networks Solutions Department at Fima, the company of intellectual engineering solutions.

The new data centre will be distinguished by particularly high energy efficiency, with its PUE being 1.25. The closer this number is to one, the more energy efficient a data centre is, and the lower are the electricity expenses of its customers. Compared to the majority of currently operating data centres, the efficiency of the new data centre operating at its full capacity will allow saving up to 1.5 million kWh of electricity per year. The data centre will use only the Lithuanian green energy - electricity from renewable energy sources generated in Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant.