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European data center operator DEAC has successfully concluded its financial year 2014, showing strong and stable results in export growth and increase in demand for data center solutions. DEAC experienced another strong year, achieving a raise of the total revenue up to 20% from previous year reaching EUR 10 mil border. Company’s strong progress in the last five years led to fivefold increase in revenue, which further strengthens DEAC to stay on track with their strategy to become one of the leading European data center operators.

In December 2014, the European data center operator DEAC has accomplished the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audit, becoming the first data center company in Latvia and one of the few in the Baltics that provides their customers payment card data storage, processing and transmitting in appliance with highest level requirements.

DEAC – one of the largest independent data center operators in Northern Europe, has undertaken research into its services over the last 12 months to discover how fast it is able to deliver its key services. The results show that DEAC is able to provide seven of its key services to customers just one hour after agreeing a deal. By some estimates, this has the potential to be one of the fastest service deliveries amongst all European data centers.

Reviewing 2014 in numbers: in the beginning of this year, we aimed to get Four Nines of uptime. And this is it - we got the desired result!

DEAC – one of the largest independent data center operators in the Northern Europe, has announced its plan to roll out further services into the UK, US and German markets. DEAC will provide secure data centers and IT outsourcing support that has reduced IT costs for existing customers by up to 40% within three to five years.

Baltic ICT Market review, launched by the Prime Investment, indicates that Latvian companies have become successful service providers with high potential in export. According to the research data, local data center operator DEAC reached the largest growth in revenue from IT services, becoming one of the fastest growing companies among major Baltic ICT service providers.

DEAC along with delegation of Latvian entrepreneurs under the leadership of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Latvian Republic to the Russian Federation - Astra Kurme, from July 9 to July 20 have visited Russia’s Far East region cities - Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Magadan. The delegation met with region’s high-ranking officials, governors and mayors and had fruitful round-table discussions with representatives of several business sectors.

DEAC observed data traffic double increase due to business migration to the cloud services. The capacity of processed data allows Latvia to become a highly competitive player among TOP IT (information technologies) countries and attract foreign investors. Rapidly growing Latvian data centers potential allows DEAC to target a stable niche and strengthens Latvia to become an equal player among the strongest IT countries.

European data center operator DEAC raised its first-quarter financial results, achieving a 2.87 million euro turnover, which is a 45% increase compared to 1.97 million euro for the same period in 2013. Company achieved improved operating results (EBITDA) of 1.292 million euro.

European data center operator DEAC has made a big step forward in company and its infrastructure development by upgrading existing data center equipment and enlarging data storage and processing capacity. IT outsourcing company has significantly raised its service quality level that allows providing customers with one of the most modern data processing and storage solutions in the Northern Europe, ranking DEAC among the largest European providers of virtual resources.