NextiraOne Builds Second Gazprom Marketing & Trading Data Centre

Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd
(GM&T), part of OAO Gazprom, a large gas and energy organisation, has selected NextiraOne LLC to design, implement and
support its new data centre (DC2) facility located in Manchester.

This facility has been implemented as a dedicated suite within a third
party data centre hosting facility and the solution includes all key data centre and infrastructure elements. It is aligned with GM&T’s first
data centre based in London, which was also designed, deployed and supported by
NextiraOne. Together the two data centres provide DR and backup
systems and services for GM&T’s global operations.

The new data centre has been designed using NextiraOne’s data centre
and project management expertise. It provides GM&T with a secure, scalable
platform to allow continued growth across its markets and the DR environment to
ensure BC in a sensitive real-time trading environment.

Rob Pringle, director of global IT, GM&T said: "Continuity of our business operations is absolutely essential. The
energy markets are open 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Real-time
information, rapid trading responses and many critical business processes
around the globe depend on our data centre facilities and our IT platforms
working non-stop and reliably. As our business has grown, NextiraOne has been a
trusted partner supporting us with our growth challenges across international
markets. Our second data centre gives us the added redundancy and backup we
need to support our business and will also be the new home for our production
energy retail systems. NextiraOne has assisted us throughout the process from
evaluation to implementation and ongoing support."

GM&T is the London-based marketing and trading arm of the Gazprom group and
has divisions that handle energy trading, and energy retail to end consumers. It has grown rapidly – the company’s primary gas and power trading and
retail systems have grown over the past three years and it now has a major
share of the industrial and commercial gas market, accounting for more than 10%
by volume of the entire UK market.

NextiraOne provides a range of services to GM&T,
including design for its two data centres, its LAN and for network and web security
infrastructure across the globe, plus all equipment provision for these
projects. The company also provides project management and implementation
services for the data centres and other key communications projects and the
design, provision and implementation services for network cabling at data centres.
NextiraOne is also GM&T’s maintenance partner, providing break-fix
services for the Cisco network infrastructure and the two GM&T data centres.

NextiraOne has worked with GM&T since 2008, beginning with a project to
provide IT solutions for the company’s original Kingston site. Since then it has been a partner, supporting GM&T’s expansion with
additional evolving services. When GM&T moved to prestigious HQs in Central
London in 2011, NextiraOne was on hand to deliver a new LAN for the office
along with the initial data centre project (DC1). Its second data centre (DC2)
in Manchester was commissioned earlier this year .

"From an IT perspective, the
business demands associated with a commodity trading environment and general
requirements have changed, calling for increased levels of applications
availability, broader geographical coverage and increased resilience in the
underlying IT architecture," said Steven Skakel, MD UK and Ireland, NextiraOne. "We understand how
critical this is and work alongside GM&T to ensure its data centre and IT
platforms can support these business imperatives at all times."

NextiraOne provides a wide range of data centre and private cloud services
related to data centre transformation and virtualisation, BC and DR solutions.
These secure, scalable and cost-effective solutions lead to higher productivity
and increased efficiency for IT departments.