De Novo, the company which provides professional IT-services, the leading DPC and Cloud Center operator in Ukraine, announces the beginning of providing DPC engineering infrastructure services to IBM within the framework of its contract for the maintenance of Ukrsotsbank PJSC, UniCredit Bank ™ information systems.

According to the UniCredit group strategy, the functions of information systems development and support of Ukrsotsbank PJSC, UniCredit Bank™, as well as IT-infrastructure management of the bank were transferred to IBM within the framework of the ten-years contract signed by the end of 2011.

De Novo company was chosen as IBM partner for providing DPC services in the result of competitive selection and assessment by IBM specialists of the technical decisions complex and data base exploitation processes.

The choice of De Novo DPC demonstrates its compliance with the high requirements of the leading IT market players, like IBM. It also allows to mark the high quality of De Novo DPC services, which can provide a reliable ground for the fulfillment by IBM of its contractual obligations to the Ukrsotsbank PJSC, UniCredit Bank™. Therefore, De Novo confirmed its status of the largest corporate-class commercial DPC operator once again.

The features of technical architecture and operational model of De Novo DPC are oriented on specific banking sector demands and guarantee to the banks and their clients the following:

• The high level of DPC reliability which complies with Tier III by the classification of the international standard TIA-942
• Full compliance with the requirements of the National Bank of Ukraine to the server rooms of financial institutions
• The effectiveness of the DPC exploitation processes – the Service Level Agreement (SLA), signed between the DPC operator and the customer, ensures the constant availability of DPC engineering infrastructure services at the level of 99.98%.