Finland as best location for Datacenters
On Friday, March 14th at 14:00 (2 p.m.) we'll have a presentation from Yandex' Head of DC Operations, Aleksei Zhumykin in CK112, Exactum building.
This talk is very relevant for everybody interested in large-scale distributed systems and data centers, as Yandex runs Russia's largest search engine.
Yandex has recently invested in a data center located in Mäntsälä (link in Finnish). Zhumykin has previously been employed by Google in Hamina.
Short biography:
Aleksei Zhumykin heads the Datacenter Operations department of Russian search giant Yandex. Company has several datacenters in Russia and other countries. In 2013 Yandex has started the construction of its new site in Mäntsäla, Finland. Aleksei coordinates the activities for this project. Before Yandex, he has a good experience in datacenter construction and operations projects in Finland, and St. Petersburg.