Grigoriy Davydov, infrastructure service sales expert at IBM Russia, said: The services contract, performed by IBM engineers on site, will help with hardware recovery times and thus facilitate Lenata’s objective to reduce risks related to hardware operations and make the company’s IT infrastructure more stable.

Sergey Cherniy, CIO of Lenta, said: We selected IBM because it has a service center and a stock of spare parts and components in St. Petersburg. Another key factor that influenced our choice was IBM Russia and CIS Service Department’s invariable focus on customer needs.