VTB: Import Substitution Cube

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2023: Submission of "Import Substitution Cube"

On November 9, 2023, VTB presented to the market its own software and hardware complex (PAC), consisting of fully import-substituted components both at the infrastructure and software levels - Import Substitution Cube. The complex, completely independent of foreign technologies, forms the basis of VTB's IT landscape and can be used as a market standard in the future.

servers The Russian company and are responsible for the hardware of the Import Substitution Cube Yadro. telecommunications equipment Biforcom Tek For the software - from the Russian operating system Astra Linux the VTB VTB.Cloud platform, which also provides "" virtualization cloudy capacity for deployment. virtual machines According to the developers, one "cube" can provide the functioning of from 3.5 to 5 thousand virtual machines.

"On the way to ensuring technological sovereignty, we have learned not only to replace some solutions with others, but also to create a fundamentally new one. One of these solutions was the Import Substitution Cube. We managed to create a universal block for the construction and almost unlimited scaling of the IT infrastructure to meet the needs of the business. Already, more than 70% of our systems operate at such complexes at VTB Data Center, and next year this figure will approach 100%. We are ready to share our accumulated experience and help in the distribution of such complexes on the Russian market, "said Vadim Kulik, Deputy President and Chairman of the Board of VTB Bank, within the framework of the forum.

VTB continues to work on the migration of the bank's information systems from the previous generation data centers to the target configuration of the data center. As part of the migration program, the fifth data center has already been replaced. The plans are to replace two more non-target centers by the end of 2024.

Within the framework of the import substitution program, the share of VTB's applied automated systems independent of foreign technologies has already reached 70%. VTB also brought the share of expenses for domestic software to 75% in the total amount of expenses for software.