The antiviruses of Kaspersky compatible to Baikal and Elbrus processors were necessary for the Ministry of Internal Affairs

In auction documentation on acquisition of antiviruses of Kaspersky Total Security published in June, 2016 Ministry of Internal Affairs hoped for their compatibility with hardware and software systems based on processors Baikal-Т1 and "Elbrus-4C".

The Ministry of Internal Affairs buys and prolongs licenses Kaspersky for servers, workstations and mobile devices for three years ahead, investing in it 90 million rubles^[1].

In requirements to antiviruses it is told that they should be compatible to different versions of operating systems Microsoft Windows and Linux (RedHat Fedora CentOS SUSE Debian Mandriva Ubuntu "Aster") and also MacOS, Android and iOS.

In addition to general requirements about what functions should provide anti-virus products, the document contains the special requirement which says the following:

The new software products (antivirus software) developed and compatible to the software, hardware and software systems to processors Baikal-T1, Elbrus-4s, etc. during action of warranty obligations are provided to the Customer by official request of the customer representative without increase in the price of the contract, said in the tender documentation.

The antivirus which can work on computers with the Russian processors was necessary for the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Evgenia Naumova, the chief of the department of corporate sales in Russia Kaspersky Lab told TAdviser that as of the middle of 2016 products of the company are not compatible to platforms on Baikal and Elbrus processors owing to their small distribution, however Kaspersky Lab conducts active work on compatibility of the products with all modern platforms within import substitution.

Based on these processors absolutely new hardware platform is created. Respectively, for ensuring work of antivirus software at it it is necessary to adapt a system core - the anti-virus engine - for this new platform and to provide further support, it is a resource-intensive task, - noted in a conversation with Naumov's TAdviser.

In T-Platforms where Baikal Electronics developing Baikal processors enters, and MCST developing Elbrus did not comment on an opportunity for work of an antivirus of Kaspersky on computers with the processors. On the website of MCST there is information^[2] about availability of technology of dynamic binary translation as a part of the general software Elbrus which allows to start applications for x86 platform on computers with this processor.

Earlier TAdviser announced the interest of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Baikal and Elbrus processors.

At the disposal of edition there is a draft of the plan of the guaranteed purchases of ADP equipment discussed on the government commission on information technologies in April, 2016 in which it is told that in 2016-2018 the ministry intends to purchase 17.2 thousand servers based on processors Elbrus-4C and Elbrus 8-C and also to equip jobs with 110 thousand Meadowsweet computers on Baikal-T1 processors.

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