The Prime Minister Got Acquainted with the Work of the Largest Data Centre in the CIS in Pavlodar

      The Prime Minister inspected the command centre and the data centre of the Data Processing Centre (DPC). There is an extended range of services from simple telephone communication to the latest offers on the digital TV and broadband Internet market. The difference in access and use of Kazakhtelecom’s services between cities and rural settlements is reduced. The innovation project “Data Processing Centre” was launched in the framework of a nationwide teleconference on the presentation of the Industrialization Map projects in 2013. The project is the first in the Central Asia Data Processing Centre of the Tier III class, meaning a level of reliability that allows carrying out maintenance and preventive works without stopping the entire facility. The network of data centres of Kazakhtelecom, JSC covers the whole country and has 14 facilities, on which basis such services as virtual hosting, VPS, Colocation, Dedicated, as well as a number of innovative services, are provided: video conferencing system, Microsoft Hosted Exchange and Microsoft Hosted SharePoint, launched in July 2018. A regional representative of Genesis Mining Lucas Pfeiffer told about the work of the centre. “To date, the data centre is capable of receiving about 11 thousand pieces of equipment for the creation, processing and storage of electronic information. All life support systems are reserved, connection to the main data transmission channels is organized. In the data centre, all supporting systems, including power, are backed up, as well as air conditioning and fire extinguishing systems,” – said Lucas Pfeiffer. Based on the data centre, services are also provided based on the cloud-computing concept: a cloud server platform, a cloud data storage system, a virtual backup data centre, business software, an interactive communication and information exchange system, and cloud-based video conferencing. According to the chairman of the board of Kazakhtelecom, JSC Kuanysh Yessekeyev, the Data Processing Centre takes the leading positions on the volume of cloud services provided in Kazakhstan. Clients were representatives of the corporate sector and government structures. In addition, the data centre can provide services for Russian clients and partners – this possibility is due to the approximations of Pavlodar to the border with the Russian Federation.