OMV duplicates Vienna data centre in Bucharest

OMV, the biggest petroleum group in Central Europe, which last year registered a business worth 19 billion euros and is the majority shareholder of the largest Romanian company – Petrom, will build a data centre in Bucharest, identical to the one it has in Vienna, where the group is headquartered. As of 2010, OMV will control all its international operations through its two twin IT centres, one located in Vienna and one in Bucharest. The intention to build a data centre in Bucharest, identical with the one in Vienna, has been made public at the same time as the announced launch of the Petrom City project. It will accommodate the new Petrom headquarters – a 130 million-euro project, that will harbour all the company’s operations in five buildings. Petrom City will be located in Straulesti, in Northern Bucharest. “The setting up of a Bucharest data centre identical with the one we have in Vienna makes perfect sense, given that the two companies are tightly interconnected in their work. Considering that the group has two headquarters, in Bucharest and Vienna respectively, it was necessary for us to also build a new data centre in Romania,” stated OMV representatives.