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Data center operator DEAC, one of the leading cloud resource and IT services providers in Northern Europe, is investing 10 million euros in building a significantly larger data center in Riga, Latvia. The company plans to double the capacity of its already existing data centers, thus strengthening its leadership in operating the largest amount of server racks in the Baltics and becoming an increasingly influential provider of international data center services to companies in Russia, Europe and USA.

BPM Mezzanine Fund SICAV-SIF, SCA (BPM) has invested in the leading Baltic data center operator DEAC to support its growth. The investment is used for purchase of additional IT equipment for its growing customer base and expansion of Company’s core infrastructure, as well as refinancing part of existing liabilities. DEAC has built over the years a very strong platform in terms of technical infrastructure as well as product portfolio. The company has among its clients a number of industry leaders in the Baltics, Russia and internationally.

We continue improving the quality of our Information Security Management standards by complying with ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, thus paying special attention to the safe storage of valuable information in our data centers. Strengthening our position on the market by being one of the safest virtual platform in Northern Europe, DEAC has proved once more to its customers that they can rely on the security of our services.

DEAC continues increasing the quality of standards achieving Gold Datacenter, Silver Datacenter and Silver Data Platform competencies, thus strengthening its position in being one of the Leading virtual resources provider in Northern Europe and demonstrating a "best-in-class" ability and commitment to meet Microsoft's customers' evolving needs.

European data center operator DEAC has increased its first-quarter financial results, achieving 2.92 million euro turnover, compared to the same period in 2014 when the turnover reached 2.87 million euro. DEAC has also improved its first quarter operating results (EBITDA) up to 1.412 million euro, which indicates the overall financial well-being of the company.

European data center operator DEAC has launched a Server Clusters solution, which best suits high-loaded IT projects. Testing of software, high-loaded applications, start-up projects, high performance calculations, load balancing for data and much more are now available on DEAC-preinstalled clusters of hundreds of servers. Powerful computing resources based on DEAC’s converged infrastructure and redundant network connectivity across Europe and Russia are available up to some days depending on the business’ requirements.

DEAC’s uptime on the level of Four Nines achieved also at this year's first half. We are satisfied with the results and continue providing our customers consistently high quality standards.

DEAC has launched a cloud-based DaaS (Desktop as a Service) across data centers in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Riga and Moscow to enhance work process with improved continuity and security. Now customers’ software and applications can be stored and processed remotely on demand, regardless of the geographical or organizational boundaries, creating a complete mobile workplace and ultimate user experience from anywhere in the world.

DEAC has announced a new version of data backup solution called, BaaS (backup as a service), with a simple interface and wide options to store different data types in Data Backups at one or several of DEAC’s data centers in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Riga.

Following an increasing demand for a high quality and fast solutions, European data center will showcase a new added-value service - SUPERFAST implementation of data center services in the world’s level events - Cloud Expo Europe and CeBIT.