KAMAZ and IT-park sign contract on resource outsourcing

Within the next four years group of companies KAMAZ, the largest automobile corporation in Russia, will be using facilities of data center of the Kazan high-technology technopark “IT-park” for placing its IT systems.

The contract was signed by Director of IT-park Dinar Nasyrov and Director of the Center of information and communication technologies of JSC KAMAZ Mikhail Nosov on March 23.

The signing ceremony was held in IT-park with participation of Vice-premier – RT Minister of informatization and communications Nikolai Nikiforov.

KAMAZ will be the first Russian big industrial holding to hand over IT services for outsourcing to a data processing center in another city.

The project is being realized in the context of the program on reengineering KAMAZ information systems and IT infrastructure in 2011-2015 years and is meant to reduce the volume of capital investments in IT infrastructure of the enterprise. According to Mikhail Nosov, savings will make 40 % (about 57 mln roubles).

IT-park data center will be the site for placing KAMAZ information systems used by 5 thousand employees of the enterprise.

The data center of high fault-tolerance level is a special component of IT-park infrastructure which comprises the domain for placing state information systems and resources and the domain for commercial servers including residents of IT-park.