September 22, 2011 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
ATM S.A. and Linxdatacenter have signed a partnership agreement to start selling each others’ colocation services in Central and Eastern Europe. The total area of technical facilities at ATM and Linxdatacenter comprises of 6 data centers in CEE (in Warsaw, Katowice, Moscow, Tallinn, and Sankt Petersburg) with currently more than 23,000 sq m, 50 MW of available power featuring redundancy and emergency power systems.
ATM wins new local customers
ATM S.A., which under the ATMAN and Telehouse.Poland brands provides colocation services, is reinforcing its leading position in the Polish data center market. In the last quarter, the Company signed new colocation agreements for a total net amount of EUR 0,5 million. The majority of the agreements are long-term subscription contracts. The new customers of ATM data centers include Aviva, Medicover, Katowice Municipal Office, Web Inn, e-Kiosk, and Emitel.
ATM has already started to sell colocation services using its new F3 data center building at ATMAN Data Center in Warsaw. This state-of-the-art facility covers the area of 2,200 square meters and includes two floors of server rooms and a power supply block that increased the total power capacity available for the entire ATMAN Data Center to more than 18 MW. The new data center building features Direct Free Cooling and Dynamic Free Cooling - leading-edge cooling technologies that significantly reduce electric power consumption - and state-of-the-art technical infrastructure to meet customer requirements both today and in the future. The F3 building will be released into operation by the end of this quarter.
Linxdatacenter steadily increases its international customer base
Linxdatacenter, a European telecommunications and data center solutions provider, will soon launch one of Russia’s largest and most technologically advanced data centers in Sankt Petersburg. The facility covers 12,000 sq m of technical facilities, including more than 8,000 sq m of colocation and hosting space, and 4,000 sq m of office space used to provide Business Continuity Planning services for Linxdatacenter customers.
Also another new data center of Linxdatacenter will soon be operational in the center of the city of Warsaw.
The new facilities have much interest, as demonstrated by several customer contracts already signed by Linxdatacenter. Currently Linxdatacenter is negotiating with other international and regional customers that have a need for data center and outsourcing solutions in its region.
Greatest potential in Central and Eastern Europe
ATM S.A. and Linxdatacenter have signed a partnership agreement to start selling each others’ colocation services to customers in Central and Eastern Europe.
“Together, we have the telecommunications infrastructure that is unique in Europe and meets highest worldwide standards. There is no other operator in this region who could meet the scale and quality of our services. This makes us a natural partner for every international company that wants to operate in Europe, and to Western telcos who want to expand their business towards the East,” said Maciej Krzyżanowski, Vice-President of ATM S.A. “We believe that our joint commercial and marketing efforts will translate into a good bottom line for both our companies even in this calendar year,” added Maciej Krzyżanowski.
Arno Coster, Senior Vice-President Sales, Marketing and Product Management at Linxdatacenter, says: ”With this agreement the customers of ATM may have access to the data center services and outsourcing solutions of Linxdatacenter in Moscow, St Petersburg, Warsaw and Tallinn as well. Whilst we can offer our international clients broader access to data center services in Poland. As we anticipate to expand our services to other cities across the globe, we can even more serve the cost, compliancy, security and continuity demands of our international customers that need solutions in more than just one place or country. With this approach our customers will experience optimum availability of their systems, including workload management of their hardware and applications”.
The total area of technical facilities at ATM and Linxdatacenter comprises of 6 data centers (in Warsaw, Katowice, Moscow, Tallinn, and Sankt Petersburg) with currently more than 23,000 sq m, 50 MW of available power featuring redundancy and emergency power systems. This constitutes the most extensive colocation and hosting service offering in this region of Europe, aimed both at local and international telecommunications and other corporate customers such as finance, and electronic media companies.
“Financial markets perceive investing in data centers as a future-proof business with very fast growth opportunity. Market capitalizations of the largest data center operators clearly prove that. On U.S. stock exchanges, data center operators have P/E ratios at around 85, and EV/EBITDA at around 14. This backs our belief that this direction of ATM’s growth will be one of the cornerstones for building value for our telecommunications business in CEE region,” said Tadeusz Czichon, Vice-President, ATM S.A.
About ATM S.A.
ATM S.A. is a Polish public company (WSE: ATM) providing innovative ICT solutions for business since 1991. Under the brands of ATMAN and Telehouse.Poland the company offers telecommunications services based on its own fiber networks and three data centers in Poland, with over 8,300 sq m (ca. 89,300 sq feet) of state-of-the-art colocation space. Key elements of ATM's offer include: colocation and hosting, broadband data transmission and Internet access. In particular, carriers, Internet portals, traditional media and financial institutions may be found among the receivers of ATM services. The company is the only Polish operator present in all three of Europe's largest interconnect nodes: AMS-IX Amsterdam, DE-CIX Frankfurt and LINX London.
