Selectel JSC. (Russian: AО "Селектел") is a Russian provider of cloud infrastructure and data center services. It was founded in 2008, and it currently owns and operates six data centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad region. According to iKS-Consulting, in 2023, Selectel ranked 3rd among cloud infrastructure providers in Russia with an 8.5% market share and led the bare metal server rental segment with 56%.[3]
History
The company was founded in 2008 by Vyacheslav Mirilashvil and Lev Binzumovich Leviev, former investors of the Russian social network VKontakte.[4] In order to meet the growing needs of VKontakte, they registered Selectel and launched the First Data center in St. Petersburg, Russia.[5] Between 2008 and 2012, Selectel opened 5 new data centers: