VK Cloud formerly VK Cloud Solutions Universal Cloud Platform for Digital Services Development

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VK Cloud is a platform with a wide range of cloud services for developing and working with data for companies of all sizes that build IT solutions in the cloud.

2024

Launch of Cloud Kafka service

Cloud platform VK Cloud has launched Cloud Kafka, a solution based on open source technologies Apache Kafka and Kubernetes. Processing data streams using this service will allow businesses to reduce up to 60% of infrastructure costs by automascaling Kubernetes. VK Tech announced this on April 24, 2024.

The service can be used to collect analytical and product metrics, performance indicators of sites and applications, build predictive models and predict business indicators, as well as financial and tax reporting. Cloud Kafka provides real-time communication between different modules of IT systems.

With the service, you can create a system for notifying users of new orders and status updates, send messages or offers in response to actions on the site or in the online store. Cloud Kafka provides reliability and fast scalability of computing resources, as well as high bandwidth for working with big data. The service is easily integrated into the existing business infrastructure.

Cloud Kafka is suitable for both large high-load projects and for launching pilot projects. The service is completely ready for use - and in just a few clicks, the company can access the cluster. Administration is carried out on the VK Cloud side, which allows the business to save resources - focus on working with data and not be distracted by maintaining the infrastructure, "said Alexander Vinogradov, director of data services, VK Cloud and Tarantool.

Managing Cloud Kafka groups is convenient using the DP UI Console GUI. Companies can connect to the beta version of the platform for free - you will only need to pay for the computing resources consumed.

Cloud Desktop Data Placement

On April 8, 2024, VK Cloud launched a cloud service for creating virtual desktops - Cloud Desktop. It will simplify the operation of distributed teams and the organization of access for remote employees to corporate systems. The service is based on the Termidesk remote access solution from Uveon - Cloud Technologies. Data is hosted on the VK Cloud platform. Read more here.

Arenadata DB database availability for users in Kazakhstan

The Arenadata DB (ADB) cloud DBMS has become available to VK Cloud users in Kazakhstan. With it, companies can create a single enterprise data warehouse to solve analytical problems without the cost of implementing and supporting infrastructure. Using Arenadata DB accelerates sales analytics, purchasing planning, data collection for ML model training, and other business tasks. VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) announced this on March 5, 2024.

Arenadata DB allows you to lead to a single standard disparate information for different IT systems and speed up the process of its processing. DBMS on the VK Cloud platform is presented in a managed format cloud service with ready-made infrastructure and administration on the side. provider A business can deploy a database for storage and processing in a few clicks, data paying for the resources actually used.

The VK Cloud business digitalization platform complies with the requirements of the legislation of Kazakhstan on the protection of personal data and the international standard for the security of payment card data PCI DSS.

Use of ReText.AI Neural Network

Neural network for working with texts ReText.AI as part of the development of hybrid infrastructure announced the start of cooperation with VK Cloud. Now the service uses two duplicate clouds, one of which is VK Cloud. This approach has increased fault tolerance and reduced costs. ReText (Retext) announced this on March 4, 2024. Read more here.

Opening access to small and medium-sized businesses

VK Cloud opens access to Cloud Spark, a big data service based on Apache Spark and Kubernetes technologies. With Cloud Spark, the business can structure data from disparate sources to create analytical and predictive systems as well as machine learning models. The service allows you to reduce up to 60% of the cost of computing resources when working with big data by automatically scaling Kubernetes depending on the current load. VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) announced this on January 18, 2024.

Cloud Spark provides distributed batch and streaming processing of unstructured and semi-structured data from different sources such as S3, ClickHouse, Kafka and others. Thanks to optimization and caching in memory, the service performs analytical requests for data of almost any volume.

With Cloud Spark, you can quickly and with minimal infrastructure costs solve Data Science and analytics tasks, including conducting exploratory data analysis (EDA), as well as training machine learning models on company data. Analysts and data scientists can quickly access the required data from different sources through SQL queries, and ML developers can use the capabilities of the built-in MLlib library to work with machine learning. All users can also manage the service from any convenient environment, including from the local computer and from JupiterHub, through the built-in client library.

Cloud Spark is deployed on the basis of the managed Kubernetes service from VK Cloud, which allows you to automatically scale and reduce computing resources depending on the current load. Thus, the company can flexibly manage and optimize service costs, saving up to 60% of the infrastructure cost. Cloud Spark health support and administration is provided by the VK Cloud platform, which eliminates the need to spend time and resources of your own specialists on routine tasks.

Cloud Spark makes enterprise-grade technologies available to companies of all sizes. The business gets a scalable big data tool without having to run, configure, and administer Spark or Kubernetes on its own. The VK Cloud platform provides flexible resource scaling, security and 152-FZ compliance, while the company's specialists can focus on analytical and research tasks, working with machine learning, that is, on extracting business benefits from data, "said Alexander Volynsky, technical product manager, VK Cloud.

2023

VK Cloud is a cloud-based business and development platform that offers cloud infrastructure tools to companies of all sizes. It is part of the VK Tech portfolio of solutions and is based on many years of experience in the development of Internet services and technologies based on open source code. VK Cloud provides infrastructure and platform services, expert support, custom and private installations, and helps migrate to the cloud.

Integration with Lenovo and Huawei DSS

The VK Cloud platform for building a private cloud in the customer's data center, Private Cloud, supported integration with data extraction systems (DSS) Lenovo and Huawei. The solution will make it easier for large businesses to move to the cloud based on their own servers and reduce IT infrastructure costs . VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) announced this on November 16, 2023.

When migrating to Private Cloud from VK, you will not have to purchase new expensive equipment to work with DSS. The business will be able to use existing storage and minimize the cost of retraining employees.

According to our joint study with Arenadata, 46% of companies already use clouds to work with data arrays, and 29% plan to use such solutions in the future. The private cloud allows you to flexibly scale computing power and deploy pre-configured services by click, ensuring high efficiency and data security. Integrating Private Cloud with popular DSS will reduce business costs of migrating to the cloud while preserving existing infrastructure, "said Mikhail Tutaev, Product Director of VK Cloud.

As of November 2023, the solution supports Lenovo DE 2000, 4000 and 6000, Huawei OceanStor Dorado 5000 and 6000 DSS models. In the future, the platform will have a universal tool for integrating with storage systems from different suppliers.

Availability of Highstex Akura at no additional cost

Software licenses for disaster recovery data Highstex Akura and business applications are now available at no additional cost to all customers who host theirs DPC cloud VK on Cloud. This was announced on November 10, 2023 by the company. Highstex (formerly Hystax)

Thus, VK Cloud users can recover business processes in the event of failures or emergencies, paying only for the infrastructure necessary for the agent to work.

How to become a VK Cloud user with a free Highstex Akura license

• Determine the appropriate use case:
• VK Cloud as a backup site
• VK Cloud as the main platform
• In your personal account VK Cloud go to the Marketplace for a free license Highstex Akura Disaster Recovery
• Take into account the cost of maintaining a redundant infrastructure for the operation of the agent (the only necessary payment for the user), which is determined by the individual configuration, including the number virtual machines of disks tied to them, HDD SSD or High-IOPS SSD.
• Get free access to the Highstex Akura software solution, which provides users with:
• Complete automation of the data recovery process
• Flexible DR plans and data orchestration
• Minimum RPO and RTO values
• Complete data isolation - all data is inside the client networks, the solution does not refer to third-party resources
• Data consistency and application security (no drivers are implemented in the operating system)
• Automated testing of recovery scenarios
• Backup data without downtime and stopping business processes.

StormWall Service Availability

and Cloudy provider VK Tech the developer of solutions to protect against DDoS-attacks StormWall entered into a technology partnership agreement. VK Cloud users have become available StormWall service to further protect projects from DDoS attacks. StormWall announced this on July 19, 2023.

The tool protects projects deployed in the cloud from various types of DDoS attacks - from the network layer to applications. The service connects in no more than 10 minutes. The system filters external traffic and reflects attacks up to 3500 Gb/s.

Information security infrastructure and cloud ON are our key priorities. The partnership with StormWall has expanded VK Cloud's information security tools, in particular, strengthened DDoS protection and WAF functionality, "said Mikhail Tutaev, Product Director of VK Cloud.

The dedicated channel between the VK Cloud and StormWall cleanup centers provides high availability of the solution. Filtering points are located in different geographical regions, which allows you to repel attacks closer to the sources of their occurrence. StormWall 24/7 support monitors resource availability and quickly connects when needed. The system provides 24-hour availability of online resources: sites, web applications, API, IP and subnets.

Fending off DDoS attacks without specialized tools is becoming more difficult, and this is becoming a priority for many companies. We are pleased that Russian cloud providers are striving to provide their customers with a variety of DDoS protection tools and connect innovative solutions. We are proud that VK Tech has chosen our products to further protect customer projects and highly appreciated the quality of our technical support, "said Sergey Lakhin, Commercial Director of StormWall.

Arenadata Streaming System Availability

On June 8, 2023, the company VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) launched cloud service data Cloud Streams for real-time streaming. It works on the basis Arenadata Streaming and allows you to quickly build a corporate one, data warehouse create analytical services for processing hundreds of messages per second and receive insights from unstructured ones. information The solution is located in VK cloud Cloud]. Read more here. [1]

OpenSearch System Availability

On June 8, 2023, a system for searching and analyzing information based on open technologies - OpenSearch - became available on the VK Cloud cloud platform. With its help, business can solve various tasks: from site traffic analytics and application search to building recommendation systems and monitoring security in real time. Read more here.

Availability of Alt Server and Alt SP Server

Alt Server OS has become available on the VK Cloud platform. The company BASEALT announced this on May 24, 2023.

Users of the VK Cloud platform gained access to the Alt Server and Alt SP Server operating systems, designed to work with infrastructures of any scale. Depending on the needs, companies can choose licensing options for Alt Server OS for standard corporate solutions or Alt SP Server with built-in software information protection tools certified by the FSTEC of Russia.

The Alt Server OS can be deployed in the VK Cloud platform in just a couple of minutes. This allows enterprises to quickly and safely obtain or increase the IT infrastructure with support for information protection tools and a repository of free-available software, - said Roman Myskin, Commercial Director of BASEALT.

With the Alt Server family of operating systems, users of the VK Cloud cloud platform will have an expanded choice of tools for building the optimal IT system for themselves or their partners. Rapid resource scaling and fault-tolerant cloud architecture allow you to implement projects and create products for various sectors of the economy in a short time and safely, "said Mikhail Tutaev, Product Director of VK Cloud.

Placement in the QazCloud data center in Astana

Cloud platform for business digitalization VK Cloud is deployed in Kazakhstan in partnership with QazCloud. This was announced on April 25, 2023 by VK (formerly Mail.ru Group). Read more here.

Availability of Astra Linux Special Edition 1.7 in the VK Cloud

On April 7, 2023, the company VK announced that Cloud operating system Astra Linux Special Edition 1.7 was available on the VK platform. The Russian companies can develop their own IT products, place solutions on cloudy the platform and be confident in operational updates. OS More. here

VK Mini Apps Support Program Availability

VK Mini Apps developers have gained access to the VK Cloud support program. VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) announced this on March 27, 2023. Read more here.

Running the service for working with logs

VK Cloud has launched a service for working with system data - logs. VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) announced this on January 23, 2023. Cloud Logging captures, stores and logs information about the operation of systems, applications and their components. This helps to quickly find errors and fix them. During the beta test, the tool can be accessed for free.

Cloud Logging simplifies all stages of working with logs. The service helps to quickly find failures and their causes, determine the incompatibility of components or incidents during testing, localize and fix problems. Cloud Logging is built on the basis of well-known tools, so system administrators will be able to work with it without additional training. As a result, teams will develop and bring products to market faster, maintaining the stability of their work after release.

In Cloud Logging, users can filter logs, quickly and conveniently check data by the necessary parameters. In the future, the cloud service will help manage the storage time of system data and form a long-term archive from them.

We are consistently developing managed services for IT infrastructure administration on the VK Cloud platform. Users already have access to Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Alerting tools to control the operation of systems. With this logging service, developers will be able to significantly reduce the time for troubleshooting. In addition, it is almost impossible to detect some of the errors in the operation of systems without Cloud Logging in a timely manner, "explained Dmitry Lazarenko, Product Director at VK Cloud.

At the beta stage, Cloud Logging users can collect and analyze application logs based on the VK Cloud public cloud infrastructure. In the future, Cloud Logging will be available in VK Cloud cloud services, including Private Cloud.

2022

Availability of Postgres Pro Enterprise DBMS

On September 20, 2022, VK Digital Technologies announced that DBMSostgres Pro Enterprise became available on the VK Cloud platform.

According to the company, the use cloudy of the Postgres Pro Enterprise version will create a scalable version data warehouse without capital expenditures. IT infrastructure VK Cloud implements second-by-second charging, and DBMS the computing power for the system can be expanded or disabled by a couple of clicks. Postgres Pro Enterprise is easy to deploy and start using in and. public private cloud

The Postgres Pro Enterprise DBMS is designed for projects that require tools to work with large amounts of data in conditions that require performance and reliability. An optimized storage format, database integrity tools, and backups will store information without stopping the system, even if one of the nodes fails. In addition, Postgres Pro Enterprise implements advanced mechanisms for distinguishing user rights: access to data can be controlled at the level of individual records.

Enterprises that operate systems based on Postgres Professional products can place a development and testing environment in VK Cloud and evaluate the capabilities of the cloud DBMS. Companies can also migrate ERP systems to the cloud: deploy them to VK Cloud and use the managed Postgres Pro Enterprise DBMS. In particular, a special version of Postgres Pro Enterprise for 1C.

We are expanding the number of services for large enterprises, which have significant requirements not only for the fault tolerance of tools and infrastructure, but also for the technical support of the products they use. Postgres Pro Enterprise users in our cloud can count on VK Cloud and Postgres Professional technical support. emphasized Dmitry Lazarenko, Product Director of VK Cloud

Postgres Pro Enterprise is included in the Unified Register of Russian Programs and Databases of the Ministry of Digital Science of Russia. The DBMS is compatible with the Astra Linux operating system, which helps to quickly deploy a solution in VK Cloud in compliance with all requirements for working with domestic software and personal data. Users registered on the VK Cloud platform can connect to Postgres Pro Enterprise.

Confirmation of compliance with the requirements of 21 orders of the FSTEC of Russia for the first level of personal data security (UZ-1)

On September 19, 2022, VK Digital Technologies announced that the VK Cloud platform had successfully completed certification and confirmed compliance with the requirements of 21 orders of the FSTEC of Russia for the first level of personal data protection (UZ-1).

As reported, the level of personal security data is a comprehensive indicator that confirms compliance with regulatory requirements 152-FZ "About Personal Data" for safety storages the processing of personal data. UZ-1 compliance confirms the highest level of infrastructure security and allows you to use VK cloud Cloud to store and process even the most sensitive information, including biometric special personal data.

Regular security audits of VK Cloud infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS) services include architecture and code validation, and vulnerability testing.

Compliance with the first level of security is important for companies that work with personal data and have increased requirements for ensuring their security. This is particularly important for businesses working in health care, finance and services.

For all VK Cloud customers, we provide IaaS and PaaS UZ-1-qualified services at no additional cost. Companies can deploy the infrastructure in a secure VK Cloud, as well as evaluate their information systems for UZ-1 compliance if necessary. told Dmitry Lazarenko, Product Director of VK Cloud

Rename to VK Cloud

In August 2022, it became known about the renaming of the VK Cloud Solutions platform to VK Cloud.

Qualification for the first level of security

Experts of the National Certification Center (NAC is part of the Informzashchita Group Informzaschita) have certified the information system of personal data of the VK Cloud Solutions platform for the first level of security. The company "Informzaschita" announced this on July 18, 2022.

The first level of personal data security confirms the high level of data security in the cloud, makes it possible to process and store all categories of personal data, as well as, importantly, allows cloud customers to certify their own systems.

During the tests, various organizations have already actively used the cloud platform. However, the work went unnoticed for them thanks to special methods that were developed and adapted by the specialists of the NAC.

The large-scale project included a large number of hardware and hardware platforms, and the technologies used were distinguished by the complexity of the architecture. Thus, a feature of VK Cloud Solutions is that the system is implemented on proprietary software. NAC experts fully examined the platform's IT infrastructure and developed recommendations that should ensure the required level of information security. The members of the certification committee noted the high level of automation of the processes for inventory and accounting of assets, which played a large role in reducing the timing of work.

The project is notable for the fact that the boundaries of certification, in addition to the information and telecommunication infrastructure of the data center (IaaS), included native VK Cloud Solutions services according to various service delivery models, including PaaS and SaaS, which also showed compliance with the first level of personal data security.

In addition, the certification confirmed the effectiveness of measures to ensure the security of personal data when processing them container in environments. Also, services that provide services (machine learning Machine Learning) and processing (Cloud) meet all big data the requirements Big Data. This allows you to place the IP of customers built using container technologies (,...), and Docker Kubernetes use the mentioned services for. processing of personal data This approach made it possible to avoid duplication of the tests, as well as expand the potential audience of provider the services provided.

Vertica Analytical Database Availability

On February 3, 2022, the company VK Digital"" announced that VK Cloud Solutions customers will be able to use, Vertica a high-performance analysis platform big data from the portfolio, software Micro Focus in. cloud Vertica Operates petabytes, data performing requests in milliseconds, and the compressed format data storage saves up to 90% of the space on. disk High performance and analytics make this DBMS a relevant tool for building systems business analysts and processing big data.

Vertica is focused on stream loading and analyzing data in real, time so it will be in demand to solve problems related to processing. large amounts of information The platform is suitable both for deep analytics tasks and for building data lakes.

DBMS will make it easier for business analysts, DevOps engineers and big data experts to work with high performance and fast execution of complex analytical queries. This can be achieved through column architecture and efficient data compression.

Solution it is integrated VK Cloud with Solutions services, including business intelligence application, Qlik Sense message queuing service, Managed DBMS, platform for developing solutions based on. machine learning Using Vertica along with other VK Cloud Solutions services, platform users will be able to close most to storage data processing, processing and analytics needs.

"Vertica is used by many large companies around the world. We want up-to-date big data tools to be more accessible, so make Vertica available from the cloud. Using Vertica in the VK Cloud Solutions gives you the flexibility to scale resources. DBMS integrates with Kubernetes, the cluster volume automatically changes depending on the current load, which solves the main headache of the target audience of such products, "- tells Dmitry Lazarenko, Product Director of VK Cloud Solutions.

"With Vertica's availability from the VK Cloud Solutions, we are committed to providing our regional and international customers with as many deployment options as possible to deliver analytics and machine learning projects," - said Evgeny Stepanov, head of Vertica in Russia and the CIS.

Description

As of March 2022, the platform had a description: VK Cloud (formerly VK Cloud Solutions, Mail.ru Cloud Solutions) cloudy is a business and development platform that offers convenient creation tools for cloud infrastructure companies of any size. VK Cloud is part of the solution portfolio VK Digital and is based on many years of experience in the development of Internet services and technologies based on. open code

2021

Renaming to VK Cloud Solutions

In October 2021, the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform was renamed VK Cloud Solutions due to the rebranding of the parent structure of Mail.ru Group to VK.

EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert in the Cloud

Schneider Electric, in partnership with VK Cloud Solutions (formerly Mail.ru Cloud Solutions), will present cloud versions of Schneider Electric's energy management products. The first cloud solution Schneider Electric, which is already available to Russian customers, is the EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert in the Cloud (Cloud PME) energy management system. This was announced on November 16, 2021 by VK Cloud Solutions. Read more here.

Cloud Voice Mail.ru Availability

cloud Cloud Solutions Mail.ru has access to the platform speech recognition and synthesis based on. machine learning Mail.ru Cloud Voice It will help companies quickly implement speech technologies digital services and applications. The platform was built using technology. voice assistant Marousya Mail.ru Cloud Solutions announced this on October 5, 2021. More. here

Partnership with QazCloud

On August 31, 2021, the company Mail.ru Digital technologies announced that the Kazakhstan a company owning QazCloud data centers technological competencies in the development of digital services in the territory had become its partner. Kazakhstan More. here

PCI DSS Compliance Confirmation

The Mail.ru Cloud Solutions cloud platform has received official confirmation of compliance with the international PCI DSS payment security standard. The standard helps protect cardholders from the risks of data storage and processing. This was announced on August 11, 2021 by Mail.ru Cloud Solutions. Read more here.

Arenadata DB Availability

On July 9, 2021, Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) announced an expansion of cooperation with Arenadata. An Arenadata DB cloud analytics database based on Greenplum in Enterprise has become available on the MCS cloud platform. Read more here.

Providing Seeq Analytics Services in the Cloud

Analytical services Seeq Russia in will be provided within the framework of cloudy the infrastructure of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions, as announced by the latter on June 28, 2021.

The services have become available as part of cooperation with InduSoft. The third-party partnership provides Russian business with access to the Seeq analytical system, used by global industry giants, from the domestic cloud infrastructure.

Seeq complements the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions ecosystem of industry solutions, which includes analytics, database Arenadata DB private cloud Private Cloud building platform Internet , Industrial things IoT platform and other solutions. Thus, enterprises receive advanced secure tools for working with, data which can be placed in any version of the infrastructure, including in a secure private cloud.

Seeq's solution SaaS helps improve business efficiency quickly and cost-effectively by analyzing production data for applications. The software provides the ability to aggregate, process and visualize large amounts of information in order to use the obtained conclusions in the decision-making process.

As a result, the value of the data available to companies and the accuracy of the forecasts themselves multiply.

Users will be supported at the Seeq implementation stage by InduSoft, which is an exclusive partner of an international vendor in Russia.

With Seeq, Mail.ru Cloud Solutions expands its portfolio of industry solutions. Earlier, in the private MCS cloud, it became possible to use a secure Russian database for the Jatoba industry. It can be used by companies with increased IT security requirements.

Mail.ru Cloud Solutions provides cloud-based solutions that meet industry-specific analytics requirements. We focus on the needs of large companies, see growing demand from manufacturing companies and offer business an ecosystem of cloud advanced solutions for working with data supplied in any version of the infrastructure, including within the framework of a secure private cloud, - said Dmitry Sukhamera, Director of Business Development "IoT and Industrial Automation" Mail.ru Cloud Solutions.

As part of Cloud Energy Efficiency Solution - Cloud PME

Mail.ru Cloud Solutions on April 29, 2021 announced that, together with Schneider Electric, it is launching a cloud service in Russia: the EcoStruxure Power Monitoring Expert in the Cloud (Cloud PME) energy management system. Mail.ru Cloud Solutions takes on the challenges of deploying and supporting infrastructure. Read more here.

Availability of out-of-the-box configurations and flexible virtual machine configurations

On March 18, 2021, Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) announced the expansion of free testing of its cloud infrastructure. Users will now be able to try out any MCS cloud services on real projects.

Users will be able to launch a pilot project cloud in and try out Mail.ru Cloud Solutions infrastructure services. Ready-made configurations and flexible settings (virtual machines VM) for the needs of the project are available to choose from. For example, users can connect a VM with two processorsIntel Xeon Gold (CPU), 8 GB of RAM and high-performance 40 GB High-IOPS drives. SSD Another option is a high-performance VM (3.0 GHZ) with 4 GB of RAM, 50 GB NVMe drives and automatic. backup The launch of a pilot project on virtual machines will assess the capabilities of the cloud for the IT company's tasks.

Within the test period, users also have access to platform components (PaaS) Mail.ru Cloud Solutions: disaster recovery service (DRaaS), cloud databases ( for example, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse as a service, including in cluster configuration), Kubernetes clusters and others.

To start testing, you need to activate your account in your personal account Mail.ru Cloud Solutions. New users get the opportunity to operate computing power in the amount of up to 3000 rubles for two months. MCS experts are ready to suggest which services and in what configuration should be connected to solve the problems of each new user.

Not only technologically advanced companies work with the clouds, but also a start-up business. Not all of them have expertise and are ready to migrate to the cloud right away. We give the opportunity to "try on" cloud services for our projects, choose the optimal configuration and composition of the solution, - said Vadim Kozhin, Marketing Director of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions and Tarantool.

Start providing cloud services in the EU market

On January 29, 2021, the Mail.ru Group announced the launch of a data center in Holland, thanks to which the company, through its Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) division, begins to provide cloud services in the European market.

Kubernetes Big Data All MCS services will be available in the European cloud, including Managed and DBaaS, as a Service, cloud monitoring, backup service, CDN and AntiDDoS. Companies that already operate in countries EU will be able to move their European projects to the cloud Mail.ru Cloud Solutions.

The Mail.ru Group emphasized that the European MCS cloud is primarily designed for projects for which the speed of access to services is critical: companies from retail, fintech, information technology, gaming industry, education. The presence of a data center in Amsterdam will ensure high speed and availability of services, as well as compliance with the law, the Russian Internet holding said in a statement.

MCS infrastructure solutions enable companies to quickly scale computing power to launch new services. Our platform services help you move to digital business models. And now all the possibilities of cloud technologies are available for work in the European market, "said Ilya Letunov, head of the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform, whose words are quoted in a press release.

The company noted that MCS is the first major Russian provider to announce the launch of an international cloud based on a data center in Europe.

Companies operating in Europe are required to comply with the GDPR law, according to which the personal data of EU citizens must be stored on servers located in the EU. MCS provides companies with this opportunity.^[1]

Availability of Acronis Data Protection services

On January 14, 2021, Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) announced a partnership with Acronis ITProtect. Acronis Data Protection services have become available to MCS customers to improve the reliability of IT infrastructure, minimize reputational and financial risks in the event of loss of information or system failures. Read more here.

2020

B2B Service Portfolio

• IaaS (virtualization, billing, automation of access to resources)
• Digital platform (services for accelerated IT application building)
  • Email

• *Messenger
• Corporate Social Networks (CCC)
• In-memory database. Acceleration of operation (caches) for monolithic systems
  • Data processing systems. Data Base
  • Speech and Image Recognition

• Omnical communications
• Audience Analysis and Online Communication

Confirmation of compliance with the requirements of FSTEC UZ-2 and 152-FZ "On Personal Data"

The Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) platform has confirmed compliance with the requirements FSTEC for the second level of data security (UZ-2) and. 152-FZ "About Personal Data" This was announced on December 2, 2020 in Mail.ru Cloud Solutions, cloudy a vendor of the business platform. More. here

Special project "Road to the Clouds" on TAdviser

In October 2020, the MCS special project "Road to the Clouds" was launched at the TAdviser.ru, which talked about the capabilities of the company's services, the experience of its clients and development strategy.

MCS-based access to MyOffice Private Cloud

On August 27, 2020, MyOffice and the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) cloud platform announced a technology partnership and the start of developing joint solutions. To meet changing demand, MyOffice decided to integrate MyOffice Private Cloud with Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) cloud infrastructure. Thanks to this cooperation, company partners will be able to deploy employee collaboration in the cloud office. Read more here.

Placing Postgres Pro in the MCS cloud

On July 16, 2020, it became known that cloudy the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform, together Postgres Professional with, developed cloud service the managed Database-as-a-Service databases- Postgres Pro Cloud model. The placement of the database cloud in allows you to organize safe storage: data high availability and reliable information protection storage combined backup with and fault-tolerant storage mitigate the risks of loss and. leaks More. here

Collaboration with Amazon Web Services

On July 6, 2020, Mail.ru Group announced cooperation with Amazon Web Services (AWS), within which the American company will be able to fully enter the Russian cloud services market. Read more here.

Launch of a support program for small and medium-sized businesses during the epidemic

On March 26, 2020 cloudy , the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform announced the launch of a support program for enterprises small and medium-sized businesses that provide socially useful free products or services during the fight against. coronavirus It includes special terms of use for MCS cloud solutions: 100,000 grants to rubles deploy Mail.ru Cloud Solutions infrastructure-based services, free migration assistance to the MCS cloud platform.

{{quote 'author = noted Ilya Letunov, head of the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions' platform In the current difficult situation, we decided to support the business and help socially significant projects using cloud technologies. Many services, including medical, social and educational online platforms, are forced to adapt to work in the current conditions. Our cloud technologies will enable you to scale your IT infrastructure under high load so that users can consistently receive socially important services without interruption or disruption. }}

To participate in the program, you must submit an application on the service website. On a competitive basis, companies will be selected that will receive grants. When considering applications, the organizers will be guided by two main selection criteria: the public value of the project and the free distribution of a product or service during the fight against coronavirus.

Mail.ru Cloud Solutions also has a charitable foundation program co-organized with Dobro Mail.ru that allows organizations to use free cloud resources on an ongoing basis.

Earlier, Mail.ru Group announced that it would allocate a billion rubles to support medium and small businesses. In particular, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki will double the budgets for the promotion of SMEs in mobile advertising offices. Yula's ad service for sellers of goods will increase free placement to 200 ads per month and introduce the possibility of free promotion for bonuses. Delivery Club will reduce the commission for all partners connected to the platform, and VKontakte will allocate grants for the first promotion for cafes and restaurants. A free package of services from the Mail.ru for Business platform will be provided to companies that are forced to transfer processes online. For taxi drivers, the Citymobil aggregator compensates for income lost during downtime if the reason for the downtime was that the driver fell ill with coronavirus or was in contact with the sick passazhirami.​

2019

For 2019, Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) is a cloud infrastructure provided under the IaaS model for large corporations and small and medium-sized businesses. The company combines online services for cloud storage, corporate communications and marketing, is part of the VK platform for business.

With Mail.ru Cloud Solutions, you can place your infrastructure in, virtual data center receiving high-speed launch of new IT solutions and round-the-clock Russian-language technical support. DPCs VK Cloud Solutions are TIER III located in the territory, of the Russian Federation which fully complies with the requirements FZ 152 of'About personal data '.

Cloud Platform Development Plan with Arenadata

On November 11, 2019, the company IBS announced that it had Mail.ru Group jointly agreed on the joint development and implementation of management technologies, big data as well as on long-term cooperation in the field of innovative development and the creation of sustainable technical solutions in the Russian market. Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) and (Arenadata a subsidiary of IBS) will jointly develop a cloudy platform that solves all business problems in the field storages and processing. data More. here

Availability of IaaS MCS solutions from Axoft

IaaS Mail.ru The Cloud Solutions (MCS) line is now presented at the global service IT distributor. Axoft Thanks to the cooperation, the company's partners will be able to offer the Russian cloudy customers building solutions, IT infrastructures Axoft announced on October 28, 2019.

The partnership between Axoft and Mail.ru Cloud Solutions is designed to increase audience reach and provide businesses with convenient access to the MCS line of solutions: tools, cloudy backup virtual, and to servers databases other services. IaaS MCS solutions are addressed to companies that do not have their own or DPCs build a hybrid: IT infrastructure developers,,,. to retailers ecommerce to banks

Availability of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions Services to MerliOnCloud Partners

As part of the development of the MerliOnCloud project, Merlion announced on October 23, 2019 that it has signed a distribution agreement with cloud provider Mail.ru Cloud Solutions. As a result, all Mail.ru Cloud Solutions services are available to MerliOnCloud partners and are offered to a wide distribution channel with all related expertise and services. Read more here.

Launch of cloud PaaS service

On September 9, 2019, the company Mail.ru Group announced that it was launching cloudy PaaS a service - storage an analytical (data data warehouse) based on. DBMS ClickHouse More. Here

Availability of MCS cloud services to MONT partners throughout Russia

On August 23, 2019, the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform and distributor software MONT announced a collaboration that cloud services made MCS available to 2000 MONT partners throughout. Russia

As a result, MONT customers gained access to the products of the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) cloud services platform. The collaboration Mail.ru Cloud Solutions and MONT is expected to allow the distributor's partners to expand their service portfolios through MCS cloud services.

Mail.ru Cloud Solutions is a scalable cloud platform. Its IaaS and PaaS services are suitable for business in the fields of development, retail, e-commerce, production and other companies, as well as government organizations. Their use allows you to optimize costs through a scalable resource consumption model and reduce IT infrastructure administration costs.

Launch Mail.ru Cloud Managed Services

On March 28, 2019, it became known that MCS launched Mail.ru Cloud Managed Services, a service that allows any company to transfer service to its IT infrastructure to specialists from Mail.Ru Group. This will allow the enterprise to free up more time and resources to work with key business tasks. Read more here.

Launching Sitebox Site Designer

On March 19, 2019, Mail.ru Group launched Sitebox website designer as part of the Mail.Ru for Business SaaS platform. The designer is intended for representatives of small and medium-sized businesses who need to quickly and with minimal effort create a site or online store. Sitebox runs on Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) servers. Read more here.

Launch of b2b-market bid development direction

On February 20, 2019, it became known that Mail.Ru is creating a separate direction dedicated to the development of proposals for the b2b market. Ilya Letunov, head of the Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions platform, spoke about this.

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According to the expert, after the introduction of a public cloud, it is easier to move to a hybrid cloud, since the infrastructure has already been built. The cloud from Mail.Ru contains object storage services (a way to store data without a hierarchy), databases, services for fast application development using machine learning^[1].

Free Backup Service

On January 23, 2019, Mail.ru Group announced that a free backup service was launched on the Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) cloud services platform. functionality will ensure uninterrupted operation of IT infrastructures of developers, online service providers and e-commerce business. Read more here.

2018

Launch of the "Cloud for Charitable Foundations" project

On December 7, 2018, Mail.Ru Group reported that Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions and the Dobro Mail.Ru service announced the launch of the Cloud for Charitable Foundations project, thanks to which reliable non-profit organizations will be able to receive the resources of the MCS (Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions) cloud platform for free. Read more here.

Cloud Services Store

On November 28, 2018, the company Mail.Ru Group announced TAdviser the launch Mail Cloud Solutions cloudy of a service store within the platform, where Mail.Ru Cloud Marketplace vendor companies can place their products. More. here

Cloud Machine Learning Announcement

On November 22, 2018, Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions introduced Cloud Machine Learning, which will allow developers to create machine learning solutions without having to build their own infrastructure. Read more here.

Mail Sounds audio analytics service

On October 22, 2018, Mail.Ru Group announced that it had launched a product within the Mail Cloud Solutions platform, Sounds audio analytics service. According to the company, the service, which is based on machine learning technologies, allows you to automate and simplify many ordinary processes. Read more here.

PaaS service "Data Base"

On September 24, 2018, Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) announced the launch of PaaS the Data Base service. This product allows companies to quickly deploy popular databases and flexibly scale them as the project grows. The use of the presented PaaS service makes it possible to reduce the launch time of manufactured products and services from weeks and months to minutes.

DBMSs are necessary both for the functioning of the business and for the company to launch various products. At the same time, deploying a DBMS is a laborious task: even with the participation of an experienced specialist, creating a simple database instance for the development environment takes at least a day, and more complex cases can take from a week to a month. Also, to launch and support DBMS at its own facilities, the company will need to purchase equipment, hire a database administrator or use the services of IT outsourcers and consultants.

The PaaS MCS product helps companies bypass these difficulties and avoid costs by using the database as a cloud service, which allows you to create workable database instances in one click through a convenient web interface. At the same time, Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) provides and supports the entire IT infrastructure. As the business or related products grow, cloud storage scales easily. Payment is made for the used computing power with per second charging. As of September 2018, open source DBMSs are supported: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Mongo; Galera and Tarantool are available on demand.

PaaS reduces the impact of the human factor in such a business-critical area as data processing and storage. The entire process of creating and configuring DBMS is automated. The data is copied to fault-tolerant storage. Copies are geographically distributed, which minimizes response time and guarantees high reliability. MCS takes over monitoring, and the license agreement guarantees 99.95% availability.

PaaS-service Mail.Ru Cloud Big Data

On July 10, 2018, Mail.ru Group, as part of the Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions infrastructure, introduced a scalable PaaS service for companies that collect and analyze big data. Mail.Ru Cloud Big Data based on Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark is an alternative to an expensive local infrastructure for processing big data. Instead of purchasing equipment that will be used several hours a week and will require constant maintenance costs, the company can use the cloud infrastructure for rent, the Mail.ru Group emphasized. Read more here.

PaaS-service Containers

On May 21, 2018, Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) launched PaaS service Containers. It is based on Kubernetes technology.

Containers works according to the PaaS model and allows you to ensure the health of client IT applications under any load. Seamlessly integrated into the MCS cloud platform, the service automates cluster creation and maintenance processes, helping companies forget about manually configuring virtual machines, security, monitoring, load balancing, and storage connectivity.

author '= Egor Ganin, Head of Cloud and Business Services ' "The public cloud market in Russia in 2018, according to SAP CIS forecasts, will amount to 34 billion rubles, and PaaS's share in it will barely exceed a billion. This is 3% of the service market, while the global average PaaS share is 20%. This state of affairs is unusual for the Russian market, which in its technological development usually follows international trends. Our mission is to increase the awareness of Russian specialists about the importance of using all the possibilities of public clouds. The platform as a service that we offer today can significantly reduce product development time and accelerate the launch of new solutions to market. And the use of cloud infrastructure in the business will ultimately accelerate the development of the Russian digital business. "

The Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions service allows you to solve such problems as launching applications that implement a microservice architecture, processing peak loads of applications and sites, speeding up and standardizing CI/CD processes, and managing test environments.

Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions includes object cloud storage for hot data Mail.Ru Hotbox, cold data Mail.Ru Icebox and virtual servers Mail.Ru Infra.

Launching Cloud Computing on the GPU

On April 25, 2018, Mail.Ru Group, with the support of Nvidia, introduced GPU-based cloud computing (GPU) as part of Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS). The advanced Nvidia Tesla V100 computing accelerators are used as a hardware platform.

With the development of technology, the volume of tasks that require serious computing power increases: machine learning, rendering video with an abundance of computer graphics, processing big data, training neural networks, encoding video streams, and so on. At the same time, performance requirements are also growing: data arrays are increasing, computer graphics are becoming more realistic, machine learning algorithms are more complicated. Only GPU-based platforms can provide the necessary level of performance in complex computing tasks, Mail.Ru Group noted.

As part of Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions, with the support of Nvidia, the power of high-performance GPUs for Russian users is now available. Researchers and companies will have access to accelerated computing in the cloud through MCS servers.

The MCS customer can order the right amount of resources with per second charging to reduce costs and scale the solution as the project volume increases. The multi-core architecture of Nvidia Tesla V100 processors allows, for example, to train a neural network in a few hours instead of a few weeks that would have taken earlier. At the same time, the user pays only for the use of the service during these hours, and not for the purchase of an entire server.

Distributed computing is not an easy task. Without direct access to computing power, developers cannot quickly test their idea of ​ ​ what is hindering the development of IT in Russia. Mail.Ru Group strives to make modern technologies available. With the launch of cloud computing on the GPU, anyone can rent modern GPUs and test their hypotheses. We sincerely hope that access to the capabilities of high-performance GPUs Nvidia IA in the cloud will bear fruit in the form of new technology startups, "said Yegor Ganin, head of cloud and business services at Mail.Ru Group.

Access to cloud computing will be provided on an application in a first-come, first-served manner. The service is provided on the basis of the cloud platform Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions. The cloud infrastructure of MCS allows you to rent virtual servers, organize work with frequently used "hot" data and securely save files that are rarely requested.

Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions servers are located in Russia: this guarantees the minimum response time and compliance with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation, the Mail.Ru Group emphasized.

Interface redesign. Cloud B2B Infrastructure Update

On April 19, 2018, Mail.Ru Group introduced a radically redesigned interface and several important updates to the Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) cloud B2B infrastructure.

MCS has completely updated the interface for creating and managing virtual machines. Using the Virtual Machine Startup Wizard, users can perform basic operations in a couple of clicks: create and connect to virtual machines, as well as stop and delete them. For advanced MCS management and fine-tuning of services, the Horizon panel is still available - a web interface that allows you to manage OpenStack services .

In addition, you can link a bank card to your MCS account to automatically replenish your balance in a timely manner. Auto completion will ensure uninterrupted operation of services without the need to monitor the status of the account.

The interface for downloading and downloading files to object storage has been updated. The updated MCS interface brings the convenience of working with files to a higher level. For example, you can drag and drop objects into the vault or select files from the list. Added the ability to automatically create public links to files in your domain. The possibility of adding administrators for joint project management has been implemented, noted in Mail.Ru Group.

"Cloud IT infrastructure is a state-of-the-art tool to make a business more flexible and cost-effective: the customer can increase and reduce the amount of resources consumed at any time, thereby reducing the cost of purchasing, operating, and downtime of their servers. The task of MCS is to remove the difficulties associated with unexpected problems in IT from the owner and allow him to concentrate on the main thing. The updated interface allows you to significantly reduce the time for key infrastructure operations. " 'Egor Ganin, Head of Cloud and Business Services at Mail.Ru Group '

The cloud infrastructure of Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions allows you to rent virtual servers, efficiently organize work with frequently used "hot" data and reliably save files that are rarely requested, the Mail.Ru Group emphasized.

Starting the direction

In January 2018, Mail.Ru Group merged all cloud services for business (Infra, Hotbox and Icebox) into a separate direction under the Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) brand, the company said.

Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions offers customers access to private virtual network, object storage and storage for, backups load balancer, network storage systems, NAS NFS, CIS, block storage, configuration management service.

Infra virtual cloud infrastructure service, in particular, allows you to create virtual machines, disks and networks on the power of Mail.Ru Group, as well as manage them in a single web interface. Hotbox is a cloud for "hot" data that allows you to store in instant access and distribute a large amount of information. Icebox is a repository for rarely used data. In addition to the virtual infrastructure, MCS will offer its customers Tarantool, a product that has proven itself in the DBMS market.

Initially, cloud services were created on the basis of different divisions of the company: for example, Icebox and Hotbox object storage was developed by the Mail.Ru Clouds teams and the Mail.Ru for Business platform, and virtual machines (Infra) were created in the direction of storage systems.

The development of the cloud direction in Mail.ru is explained by the fact that the IaaS market has great growth potential. Significantly more resources were allocated for the development of MCS in 2018 than for individual IaaS services of the company in 2017: in particular, according to Mail.ru plans, the project team will triple. The company does not disclose investments, the number of potential vacancies in the new division and its projected market share.

Among the key advantages of its services in Mail.ru are called convenient charging (companies pay only for the actually used capacity and storage volumes) and ease of administration. In addition, the advantages of the new direction in the company include nineteen years of experience in managing the infrastructure of Mail.Ru Group, servers located in Russia, convenient interfaces and a personal approach that is guaranteed to each MCS client, a representative of Mail.Ru Group told TAdviser.

At the time of the merger under the new brand, Mail.ru services, according to the company, are used by hundreds of organizations of various profiles, including 1C-Bitrix, VTB 24 and British Higher School of Design.