BUSISNESS
DANILO SAVIĆ, CEO, DATA CLOUD TECHNOLOGY
MODERN TECHNOLOGIES KNOW NO LIMITS Data Cloud Technology secured its organisational and human resource capacities and then, a little less than a year ago, began providing services to a plethora of commercial clients. Interest in DCT’s services is expressed among companies that have the highest reputation at the world level Alongside the initially established cooperation with IBM and Huawei, the best example is the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Oracle for establishing Oracle Cloud at our Centre, and we also expect the signing of a contract soon. The fact that giants of the world ICT industry, such as Oracle, IBM and Huawei, have decided to cooperate with us shows that we are on the right track and is the best recommendation for DCT. At the fair events held recently in Dubai (DUBAI EXPO and GITEX), we established contacts with leading companies in the ICT sector, so we also expect an increase in the number of foreign clients in the coming period.
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EO Danilo Savić says that’s he’s major optimist, because Serbia’s ICT sector is recording significant growth. Planning is one of the biggest challenges in this area, but the experts at DCT are ready to take their share of responsibility in a great job that has been launched successfully and needs to be completed in the same way. The Government of the Republic of Serbia established company Data Cloud Technology on 17th December last year. With what kind of results achieved did you celebrate the first birthday? Certain dynamics of implementation and development are dictated by the complexity of the system of the region’s most modern facility of its type. During the first year of operations, we formed a team of experts ready to respond to the challenges posed by the management of such a facility, standardisation was completed in accordance with the highest internationally established criteria and all security and protection subsystems were tested successfully.
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Could it be said that the Centre is among the most modern in the region, in terms of technical and security standards? According to technical and security standards, our Centre is the most modern in the region and the only one that provides 2N redundancy of all system components: power supply and cooling of IT equipment, as well as telecommunication connections. The Centre is designed in accordance with the Tier 4 standard, while the services we provide satisfy the ISO 27001 safety standard and the ISO 9001 quality standard. When we were establishing the Data Centre, we kept in mind that the key information and communication infrastructure of the Republic of Serbia is hosted here. In that sense, we are primarily orientated towards the highest technical and safety standards. Such an approach is only acceptable if we consider that the Centre hosts the data and equipment of the most important state institutions. Potential commercial users also imply that the noted standards have been met, because that’s a prerequisite for any kind of cooperation in this time of digitalisation. Which foreign and domestic companies have signed contracts on the use of the Data Centre? Is there reason to consider expanding its capacities in the future? The Centre’s services are used by clients from several different industries. Alongside the aforementioned international ICT giants (IBM, Huawei, Oracle and IngramMicro), we’ve also gained the trusted of companies from the telecommunications
