Aeroflot leases PAK based on Yadro equipment for 2.6 billion rubles

Aeroflot Airlines announced a tender for the leasing of software and hardware complexes (PAK) based on equipment from the Russian manufacturer Yadro. The maximum amount of the transaction should not exceed 2 638 529 225 rubles.

The delivery includes the PAK Digital Crew Management Platform for data centers located in the Sheremetyevo, PAK flight complex for sites in the Moscow data centers Rostelecom M9 (Butlerova St., 7) and DataSpace (Sharikopodshipnikovskaya St., 11 p. 9), as well as for the Kazan site of the airline located in the data center IT park (St. Petersburg, 52).

In total, 60 PACs must be delivered under the contract, including, and SHD servers , ON including, five storage systems - Tatlin.Unified, four sets of servers - Yadro P2-80A and 131 servers - Vegman S220. In addition, the software - operating system Red Hat Enterprise 8, Linux IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, a set of pre-installed eCOptimzer software - must be delivered with the equipment.

Vegman Server. Photo by Yadro

Under the terms of the tender, the equipment is provided for a period of five years together with software licenses and technical support services in 24/7 format.

Aeroflot could not answer TAdviser questions.

Yadro Managing Director Alexei Shelobkov declined to comment on the tender. However, he noted that leasing IT equipment is becoming more popular in Russia, and today, according to the "cloud model," you can buy not only servers and storage, but even smartphones.

The tender conditions admit that instead of the equipment of the Russian manufacturer Yadro, analogues from among the Russian electronic products included in the Register of the Ministry of Industry and Trade or produced in Russia can be used.

But, as Oleg Izumrudov, executive director of the Consortium of Russian Storage Developers (ANO RosStorage), noted in a conversation with TAdviser, the prescribed equipment specifications do not allow equipment assembled on the basis of domestic processors to participate in the tender. So, in the terms of reference, for example, for servers, it is stated that they should be 8, 18, 24 and 128-nuclear with a clock of 2.9-3.9 GHz. Russian processors with such indicators do not yet exist.

In addition, Oleg Izumrudov believes that leasing, as a form of purchase, is one of the ways to get away from the law.

Companies are limited by law in the purchase of foreign equipment, but they are relatively free to purchase services, even if they are IT equipment rental services, "commented TAdviser Oleg Izumrudov.