Active Technologies

History

2011: Assets

Having finalized the Parallels automation platform in early 2011, Active Technologies offers customers cloud-based enterprise mail and other enterprise software (SaaS), virtual desktops (DaaS) and computing power lease (IaaS ). Developers of web applications can buy access to the Hivext platform (PaaS, the project received $500 thousand from the Runa Capital fund, in which Igor Borovikov is a partner). In addition, backup, spam and virus protection can be organized at Active Technologies facilities.

As of March 2011, the company employed 60 people. Active data centers rented in Russia, Belarus and Holland.

2010

Revenue - over $1 million

Revenue in 2010 exceeded $1 million, says Tyagunov. According to Active's own estimate, it controls 30% of the Belarusian hosting market.

Softline's purchase of control in Cypriot offshore owner Active Technologies

In early 2010, Softline bought a controlling stake in the Cypriot offshore company, which owns the Belarusian company Active Technologies, to provide cloud services.

Softline, having received the status of Microsoft SPLA Reseller in September 2010, launched active activities to popularize cloud technologies in Russia and attract the largest domestic companies to the cloud. As a result, by May 2011, Softline held a series of online and offline cloud services events and entered into partnership agreements with several dozen companies.

The SPLA Licensing Program allows the SPLA Partner (Service Provider) to provide its customers with access services to Microsoft products by SaaS (Software as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) models. Thanks to SPLA, the service provider can deploy clouds based on Microsoft products, providing its customers with work with vendor products without significant financial investments.

As a SPLA reseller, Softline provides information, consulting and marketing support to the service provider with Microsoft. Among other things, Softline helps the service provider to resolve issues related to the signing of the SPLA license agreement with Microsoft, further licensing reporting, as well as legal issues related to software sales under SPLA. Softline provides support in the planning and development of the SPLA partner's business, in determining its own policy in the market.

Softline's eighteen years of experience in the information technology market is the guarantor of reliable and effective interaction within the framework of the SPLA program, and the company's cooperation with the largest IT vendors allows offering its SPLA partners significant discounts on their products and services. One of the first and most successful SPLA partners who evaluated the advantages of Softline and chose it as a SPLA reseller was ActiveCloud, a company specializing in hosting and cloud solutions, operating in the market of Russia, the CIS and Georgia.

As part of the SPLA program, ActiveCloud provides services on both the IaaS model and the SaaS model to dozens of large enterprise clients, offering the full range of Microsoft software, in particular products such as Microsoft Server and Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office 2010 and Project Server 2010, DaaS - a remote workplace on Windows - and others. At the same time, the emphasis is on providing access services to solutions deployed in the public cloud. In addition, the company offers customers a combined solution from the public ActiveCloud cloud and the existing private cloud client. This option helps customers take the first step from a private cloud to a public one with greater scalability and flexibility.

"With our cloud infrastructure and Microsoft solutions, customers optimize software, hardware, and infrastructure costs by 10-20x. And these are not theoretical calculations and calculations, but real saved funds of companies on the fact of using such a model, "says Bushin Andrian, Marketing and Development Director of ActiveCloud. - As practice shows, in the case of purchasing software or equipment, the company comes to the payback of the solution only after 3.5-4 years. During this time, both server hardware and software are becoming obsolete, the company's needs are changing - both regarding product scaling and related to the emergence of new or closure of old projects. The model of software lease and IT infrastructure allows you to neutralize such situations and rationally use all the functionality of the information solution, since the customer pays for it only as it is used, minimizing capital costs.

Moreover, the cloud capabilities offered by Softline and ActiveCloud under the SPLA program allow you to erase the boundaries and overcome the IT inequality between large enterprises and SMB sector companies. Today, any organization, regardless of its scale and budget, becomes available to use even expensive software and equipment for rent, which, on the one hand, retains full functionality, and on the other, allows you to invest capital in the development of your main business. "

2009: Joining a strategic alliance with Softline

In 2009, Active Technologies entered into a strategic alliance with Softline. The result of the collaboration was the formation of a new trademark - ActiveCloud.

2005-2007

Already in 2005, Active Technologies provided sites for hosting more than 2 thousand sites in the USA and Europe, and in 2007 it became a leading hosting provider in Belarus.

2003: Starting the First Server

On March 1, 2003, the team hosting-provider Active Technologies, led by a student, Belarusian State University Oleg Tyagunov launched its first. server This event was the starting point of the history of the company, which from the first steps managed to surprise the market with high growth rates.