Press News

Budapest, August 26, 2008

György Simó and István Papp, chief officers of the Magyar Telekom Group, today officially handed over to wholly-owned subsidiary Dataplex Kft. the new 5600 square meter wing of the data center. The facility leading the Hungarian infocommunications market has thus become the biggest and highest security data communication center in Central Europe, and is now also among the first ten similar centers in   Europe. The new wing, which cost HUF 4.2 billion to build, has been connected with the old 8800 square meter center, making it one of the largest and most state-of-the-art infocommunications infrastructures of the continent.

György Simó, chief officer of the Alternative Businesses and Corporate Development Business Unit stressed: “The Magyar Telekom Group has added data center services to its portfolio after thorough preparation. The business results have born out the correctness of the decision to acquire Dataplex: the infocommunications infrastructure services of world standard have attracted a host of Hungarian, regional and global customers to the Budapest facility of Dataplex. At the end of last year Dataplex approached the maximum of its capacities. In 2007, the data center provider netted HUF 3 billion revenue and recorded 30 per cent growth over the previous year, despite the international economic crisis and skyrocketing energy costs.” In order to be able to satisfy growing demand in the infocommunications infrastructure market, the Magyar Telekom Group has started to prepare the plans of a data center in East Hungary.

Dataplex CEO Gábor Szabó said: “The facility inaugurated today is the biggest IT infrastructure expansion project of the decade in Hungary, for which several technological solutions unique in the country, were used.” The new wing was completed in a record time of eight months, by the projected deadline.

In view of the continuous rise of energy prices and in preparation for the liberalization of the Hungarian electricity market, Dataplex has developed a new business model. This model encourages customers to rationalize their energy consumption because the service charges include not only the energy used by the servers and the data storage equipment but also the energy used for their cooling.

Environment protection aspects and sound insulation were given special emphasis in designing the center: the cooling systems on the roof were surrounded by sound abatement elements.