Publishing house "News Media" (publishes the newspaper "Life" and "Your Day") enters the market of IT outsourcing. The company is building a data center worth $ 35-40 million, the main client of which is the Internet portal
Mail.ru. The mail portal has already rented 50 racks, and is going to rent about 250 racks in a year and a half (this is a quarter of all data center capacities).
Part of the racks will take their own project “News Media” - the portal of video news
Life.ru.The opening of the “Hosters” data center will take place on January 15, when the first floor of the two-story building will be put into operation, and all the work will be completed at the end of 2010. The total area of ​​the data center will be 2 thousand square meters. m, which will accommodate 1000 server racks (25-30 thousand servers), the bandwidth of the communication channel will be 50 Gbit / s.
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For the owners of the publishing house, Ashot and Aram Gabrelynov, opening a data center is entering a very promising market, the volume of which this year will be $ 150 million, that is + 50% by 2007 (this estimate does not take into account corporate data centers which are created for themselves, that is, do not bring direct income). The demand for data center services in Moscow is enormous, according to experts, the demand is three times the supply, the places are redeemed at the construction stage.
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Kommersant