ixcellerate, leading Russian operator of commercial data centers, attracted about 190 million US dollars from existing shareholders and new investors, including Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala, Sovereign Fund of the UAE), Sberrisvest and Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFI, Sovereign Fund of the Russian Federation Federation). About this “LENTE.RU” reported in the press service of the Sberbank.
ixcellerate has been working in Russia for more than 10 years. On the basis of its own network of world-class data centers, the operator provides equipment for placing equipment (colocation), providing for Russian enterprises and global corporations continuity and availability of services in the conditions of fast-growing demand for processing and data storage in various industries.
The company will send investments on the expansion of the Northern and South Campuses in Moscow, which will allow Ixcellerate to build new objects, increase the energy intensity and ensure the operation of one of the largest campuses of the data center in Europe. Business scaling in accordance with the highest sectoral standards will allow ixcellerate to offer customers additional capacity, maintain the availability of service at 99.999 percent and guarantee better connectivity – the conditions necessary for the success of digital leaders in the new economy.
“We live in the era of large data that are stored somewhere far away in cloud storage facilities. It seems to us that this data is quite weightless, although in fact the data centers with servers are huge spaces – almost the city. I have seen them in real Life – It’s amazing imagination. What does ixcellerate for business does – it is very important. The construction of such repository cities helps companies work without interruptions, keep all the necessary information and do not think about where to host the servers with all the data, “the senior vice told Sberbank President, Head of Sbercib Andrei Shemets.
“Ixcellerate successfully proven itself as a reliable supplier of high-quality data center services in Russia. The company has all the possibilities for further growth and strengthen leading positions in the Colocation market, which directly contributes to the development of the Russian infrastructure of Russia. The role of the lead investor in this round of financing IXCELLERE is completely Complies with the Mubadala strategy to invest in digital economy and developing its sectors, “the Deputy Head of the Mubadala investment program in Russia and the CIS Abdullah Nasser Almarzuki.