Selectel
Type | LLC |
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Industry | Telecommunication |
Founded | 2008 |
Headquarters | St. Petersburg, Russia |
Key people | Lev Binzumovich Leviev, CEO |
Revenue | 3,358,554,000 Russian ruble (2020) |
606,828,000 Russian ruble (2020) | |
Total assets | 6,772,598,000 Russian ruble (2020) |
Website | selectel |
Selectel Ltd. (Russian: Сеть дата-центров ООО "Селектел") is a Russian Internet hosting provider. It was founded in 2008, and it currently owns and operates six data centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad region. According to a 2014 study conducted by iKS-Consulting, Selectel was the 5th largest data center operator in Russia in terms of the number of commercial server racks.[1]
History[]
The company was founded in 2008 by Vyacheslav Mirilashvil and Lev Binzumovich Leviev, former investors of the Russian social network VKontakte.[2] In order to meet the growing needs of VKontakte, they registered Selectel and launched the first data center in St. Petersburg, Russia.[3] Between 2008 and 2012, Selectel opened 5 new data centers:
- Tsvetochnaya 1 in St. Petersburg
- Berzarina in Moscow
- Dubrovka 1, 2, 3 in the town of Nevskaya Dubrovka, outside of St. Petersburg.[4]
Selectel's sixth and latest Tier III data center, Tsvetochnaya 2, was launched in December 2015 in St. Petersburg, right next to Tsvetochnaya 1.[5]
In November 2015, RIPE NCC included Selectel on their list of K-root node hosts.[6]
On October 10, 2017, Selectel announced a non-financial partnership with Russian-Singapore joint venture SONM by sharing the use of blockchain technology. The first joint products will be launched in 2018. The first cloud products from Selectel will be a file storage site (NAS) and the storage site similar to Amazon S3.[7]
Services[]
Selectel presently offers a variety of brands and services including dedicated physical and virtual server leasing, colocation services, cloud services, and fiber-optic leasing. In 2015, Selectel released two major developments in their line of cloud-based hosting solutions: the Virtual Private Cloud and the vScale brand of cloud servers.[8][9]
Selectel is known to rarely take down malicious content or spam services hosted on its network.[10]
References[]
- ^ "Top 10 Commercial Data Centers by Number of Commercial Racks, 2014" (in Russian). iKS Consulting, December 22, 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ "Vkontakte Cofounders Building Technopark in St. Petersburg". East-West Digital News, June 13, 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ Daria Trenina, "Selectel Shaping the Data Center Market" (in Russian). IP-News, April 13, 2009. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ Arina Bukovskaya, "Five Megawatts in Dubrovka. Selectel Launches New Data Center in Leningrad Region" (in Russian). SPB-IT-RU, July 11, 2011. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ "Selectel Opens 1,000 Rack-Capacity Data Center" (in Russian). COMNEWS, December 18, 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ Romeo Zwart, "Update on K-root Expansion". RIPE NCC, November 12, 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ "Selectel, SONM to launch infrastructure systems for blockchain". www.telecompaper.com. Retrieved 2017-10-10.
- ^ "On the steps of Amazon: Russian data center Selectel launches “Virtual Private Cloud” storage service". East-West Digital News, May 21, 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ "Selectel unveils new cloud hosting brand: Vscale". GawkWire, August 28, 2018. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ "Stopping Serial Killer: Catching the Next Strike". Check Point Research. 2021-01-04. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
Links[]
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- Internet service providers of Russia
- Companies based in Saint Petersburg
- Russian brands