UKRSIBBANK signs contract with leader of Ukrainian DC market
2014-08-15
UkrSibbank BNPP Group signs five-year contract with De Novo, leading data center and cloud operator in Ukraine according to IDC research. The largest Ukrainian bank allocates computing resources in the largest module of De Novo DC.
Reliability of UkrSibbank business processes and therefore IT infrastructure have to correspond strong bank position on the local financial market and meet strict standards of bank’s stakeholders, BNP Paribas Group and EBRD. Today operation of all the financial institutions relies heavily on IT systems; that’s why they should offer high availability and disaster tolerance for all the critical applications. Meeting the requirements at the level of UkrSibbank engineering infrastructure is entrusted to De Novo DC, the largest and most reliable DC in Ukraine. De Novo DC was built in accordance with bank server premises standards from National Bank of Ukraine and shows top operation class as the DC downtime equals zero since operation start in 2010.
“Choice of secure DC was a decision of strategic importance for us. For several years we are in touch with De Novo team and De Novo DC enjoys excellent reputation. The key arguments in favor of De Novo are their profound expertise and customers’ trust, the leading Ukrainian banks use De Novo DC resources for a long time”. – Lionel Dumeaux, Deputy Chairman of the Board, COO of UkrSibbank comments the choice of supplier.
UkrSibbank takes the largest module in De Novo DC. The module was constructed within the contract to accommodate over 20 high load racks with hardware.
Maxim Ageyev, CEO of De Novo says: “Contract with UkrSibbank proves efficiency of strategic focus we chose and gives new evidence that De Novo DC is the best data center for financial institutions. Outsourcing is the only segment on IT market showing growth despite stroke condition of national economy”.