Tieto
Corporation and Russian leading IT service and consulting company I-Teco will
establish a new joint venture company, TrustInfo, providing a full range of
globally competitive infrastructure and cloud services in Russia. Tieto
will own 70% of the shares in the new joint venture company and I-Teco 30%. The
initial investment by only Tieto will be approximately EUR 20 million. The new
company will start its operations after the transaction receives an approval
from Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation.
The joint
venture will be based in the existing I-Teco's data centre. The data centre is
a brand new, fully operational facility with highest technology, quality,
security and processes. It is already serving both Russian and foreign
enterprises operating in Russia.
At the same time, Tieto will upgrade the data centre with its operations
management services and newest technology to enable flexible IT infrastructure
services delivery.
Tieto's
operations management services in Russia will include server
operations, capacity services, connectivity and security services, Unified
Communication & Collaboration, as well as applications management,
consolidation and optimization capabilities.
The joint
venture will be a part of Tieto's cloud services network also including St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen. Moscow Data
Centre has a ready IT infrastructure environment with experienced IT
professionals, which gives possibility to serve customers immediately. With
Tieto's global operations, the new joint venture company will also give Russian
customers access to Tieto's and I-Teco's technology partners such as
Microsoft, Cisco and EMC.
"Tieto has been active in the Russian market for more than ten years. In
the last couple of years we have significantly accelerated our investments in Russia in order to serve better the rapidly
expanding needs of both Russian enterprises and foreign companies operating in Russia. We are
now taking our next step in this journey, and are very excited to announce our
new joint venture with I-Teco. This joint venture will have one of the most
modern data centres in Russia.
We believe that this investment together with Tieto's world class know-how of
global IT industry will benefit many of our current and future customers",
says Hannu Syrjälä, President and CEO, Tieto Corporation
"We are
very confident that the Russian enterprises are accelerating their efforts to
increase productivity and focus on their core business. Tieto's knowledge about
strategic outsourcing and infrastructure services has been rewarded here with
several already ongoing projects. In this new facility, we have space up to
16 000 servers which is tempting even for the most demanding big
companies. We believe that this data centre investment gives us an excellent
possibility to take important role in the Russian IT services market",
says Pekka Viljakainen, Executive Vice president and Head of Tieto
International.
"The main target for us when
establishing a joint venture with Tieto is achieving synergy of joining
experience with the leading European IT outsourcing partner that provides high
quality services for international and Russian customers. Our experience will
be especially relevant in cases that require special licensing and geographically
distributed projects. The joint venture's customers will have access to
innovative, high-quality services such as capacity-on-demand, secure cloud
computing, Software as a service, and many other innovative solutions",
says Alexey Remizov, Chairman of the Board, I-Teco.
