Data Centre Magazine February 2021 | Page 21

“ WE ARE POSITIONED VERY MUCH AS THE MAJOR WESTERN PLAYER IN RUSSIA , THOUGH WE ARE INDEED A LOCAL

RUSSIAN BUSINESS ”

— Guy Willner ,
CEO , IXcellerate
21 the remaining 50 %. “ We started with a little data centre . Then we found we were getting customers colocating with us , customers such as Bloomberg , Refinitiv , Orange Business Services , Rackspace , NTT and many other e-commerce and financial services companies from Europe and the
USA ; after that the market began to really take off so we had to build out five times that capacity and complete Moscow One . Suddenly we had some big Asian hypercloud clients like Tencent and Huawei asking for all the capacity we could provide . Our total capacity on the Moscow North
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