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The development center of Dell EMC in St. Petersburg and a research and development center in the innovation center Skolkovo enter a global network of the research centers and Competence Centers of corporation. In addition to Russia it covers also Israel, India, Ireland, China, Egypt, Brazil and the USA. The centers are engaged in the innovation research and development of the solutions EMC in the field of cloud computing, analytics of Big Data,security,virtualization and data management, including strategic management by information.
The development center of Dell EMC in St. Petersburg
Primary activity
As of 2014-2015 design, development and testing of products in the field of creation and management of information infrastructures, management of corporate contents and increase in efficiency of information processing falls within the scope of responsibility of the St. Petersburg center EMC. The center conducts these works as the services rendered by request of global office EMC.
The Russian specialists of the center in interaction with global development team participate in creation of solutions on the direction of cloud computing and an instrumentirovaniye of cloud resources, effective data storage (products VNX VNXe VMAX , etc.), information management and effective document flow Captiva (products) and also solutions in the field of mutual integration DWH and technologies a mainframe.
Regarding the last, EMC designated the center in St. Petersburg key in the field of development a mainframe competences and developments of solutions in the field of mutual integration of products a mainframe and DWH. EMC explain it with the fact that "historically large number of specialists of the high level in this direction is concentrated in Russia and in some CIS countries". In 2014 the center also began to take part in development of a new solution of EMC -Elastic Cloud Storage.
The director of the development center of EMC in St. Petersburg Vyacheslav Nesterov in June, 2015 told TAdviser that specialists of their center have a number of unique competences in algorithms for which them developer colleagues from foreign development centers address. Tasks in which application of the most difficult algorithms is required are often given for accomplishment St. Petersburg R&D-центру, he says. This is Nesterov explains with the fact that the Russian mathematical school remains one of the strongest in the world.
Vyacheslav Nesterov also told TAdviser that in 2014 the center had a new activity - services for customers. In the center there was a branch-off group of employees who help customers to set and adjust the equipment of EMC and also to solve problems with the equipment if like those arise. This group supplements the support of customers assigned to the Moscow sales office of the company with which the St. Petersburg development center cooperates, Nesterov explains. At the same time the center can render similar services not only to the Russian customers, but also clients of EMC in Eastern, Northern Europe and in the African countries.
Cooperation with universities and venture funds
Along with development and support of the solutions EMS Center in St. Petersburg implements the whole range of joint educational programs with partner universities for all Russia and the CIS within the program of the academic partnership of EMC. The company notes that this program stands alone from other local educational projects of the center as is a global initiative, and it is aimed at the development by a portfolio of educational rates of EMS in the educational schedule of universities worldwide.
The purpose of the program of the academic partnership is assistance of EMS corporation to the higher education by means of providing educational materials for training of students in the following subjects: management and information storage; analytics of Big Data; backup and recovery of information and also cloud computing. Students annually study at a basis of techniques of corporation, undergo free student's certification and receive the status EMC Academic Associate.
The center conducts cooperation also with other participants of the innovation ecosystem to develop the research activity and localization of production of the products EMC in Russia. Vyacheslav Nesterov told TAdviser that cooperation is conducted, including, with venture funds, including RVC and Runa Capital: in its framework, for example, the staff of the center is involved as the experts for assessment of startups on the relevant activities. At the same time within such actions the development center of EMC can support perspective startups by grants from the company.
History
2007-2012
June 1, 2007 - Ceremony of official opening of the St. Petersburg development center of EMS.
In 2007 EMS started the program for work with leading universities of St. Petersburg and opened the program of student's training.
2008 - The musical library of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic hall of D.D. Shostakovich received a grant of EMS of Information Heritage Initiative.
February, 2008 - At the St. Petersburg Polytechnical University the first Russian Laboratory center of storage systems created by specialists SPBGPU within the innovation educational program with assistance of EMS corporation and NCC holding was provided.
April, 2008 - engineers of the Development center of EMS in St. Petersburg took out the first patent.
In April, 2009 Vyacheslav Nesterov who began to work in EMC in February, 2008 as the director of development of the St. Petersburg Center entered the CEO's position.
2009 is EMC and the International charitable foundation of support of mathematics of Leonard Euler founded the Grant of the successful first-year student for students of Mathematics and Mechanics faculty of St. Petersburg State University.
2010 – The development center of EMS in St. Petersburg starts the first student's research project. For 2010-2011 8 student's projects are started and implemented. Today in the center of 8 student's projects. About 70 students are prepared, many became trainees of the center, and some are already engineers.
June, 2011 - The development center of EMS in St. Petersburg starts the first project of Research and Development together with partner university. In 2011 4 projects of Research and Development are successfully complete.
2011 - The development center of EMS in St. Petersburg starts the program of external mentoring for students scholars. The first scholars become the staff of the Center.
2012 - 10 partner universities with which very dense cooperation (8 universities in SPB and 2 universities in Moscow) + interaction is conducted with scientific research institute.
2013: Agreement with the government of St. Petersburg
The development center of EMS in St. Petersburg actively cooperates with state structures. In August, 2013 it signed the agreement on cooperation with the Government of Saint Petersburg for the purpose of joint participation in development of information infrastructure of the city.
Within this agreement it is going to develop jointly the existing initiatives and to master new areas of cooperation, such as upgrade of city IT infrastructure, creation of the innovation technology ecosystem of the city by support of the innovation centers of St. Petersburg and technopark of the city, participation of the parties in development of requirements to educational programs for training of IT specialists.
2014: Growth of the state up to 300 people
By the beginning of 2014, according to the company, for lifetime of the center since 2007 the number of employees in it grew three times to 300 people. For comparison, in the USA the number of employees in each development center does not exceed 100 people, and in India and China it is from 1500 to 4000 people. Heads the center still Vyacheslav Nesterov.
2015: Decline of ruble increased the interest of EMC in Russian R&D-центру
After approach of crisis in Russia EMC development center in St. Petersburg began to receive more tasks from global office, TAdviser in June, 2015 Vyacheslav Nesterov told. According to him, increase in interest from parent company is substantially connected with decline of ruble as a result of which also development cost in Russia fell naturally.
"For our parent company development in Russia became more interesting from the economic point of view. When the question of distribution of projects by development centers is considered, also the price factor is considered. And if, for example, in China and India development cost strongly do not change, then at us for the last year it significantly decreased. It made our center became more attractive to the company", - Nesterov in a conversation with TAdviser noted.
At the same time, according to Vyacheslav Nesterov, this effect just begins to be shown: at first there was a decline of ruble, after a while the management of EMC realized influence of it on development cost, and then only passed to planning taking into account this factor, he explained.
According to Nesterov, works within product development of VNXe, Captiva and technologies of mainframes within development of VMAX became the largest projects on total revenue in 2014 for its center. Among key projects over which the center works for the middle of 2015 – providing in DWH of EMC of support of the new VMware Virtual Volumes technology announced at the beginning of a year.
Together with increase in amounts of works the EMC development center in St. Petersburg had a need and for additional working resources. Vyacheslav Nesterov expects that by the beginning of the next year the staff of the center can be increased more than on 30 people. As of the middle of 2015 it makes more than 300 people, it provided data of TAdviser.
The director of the center added that in the developed economic conditions it became more profitable to work to all developers issuing the product for export: "We communicated with other developers, and on our feelings, software development cost in Russia dropped approximately by 30%", he says.
2017: Decade of Competence center in St. Petersburg
On June 28, 2017 Dell EMC celebrated decade of Competence center in St. Petersburg. The festive event on the occasion of celebration was held yesterday on the New stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre where heads of Dell EMC, employees and partners of the Center, representatives of the city administration and American chamber of commerce in St. Petersburg gathered.
On the C of June, 2007 the Competence center of Dell EMC in Russia is one of the most important development centers of the company. It is one of 13 Competence centers of Dell EMC in seven countries of the world. The mission of the Centers consists in development of the innovation products and solutions for regional customers, formation of highly qualified personnel and creation of attractive jobs, development of the innovation infrastructure and formation of professional community.
- The St. Petersburg Center is recognized one of world-best in the development area of the software and engineering developments. The center specializes in design, development, support and implementation of unique high-tech solutions in the field of cloud computing, effective data storage and also in the field of mutual integration of the products "Mainframe" and storage systems of Dell EMS. In ten years of activity the Center took out about 150 patents for developments in different areas and successfully implemented a set of projects.
- The competence center in St. Petersburg implements more than 10 educational programs, including programs of mentoring and the annual training for students and also develops own training courses. Special attention is paid to school students: the special annual STEM program (Science Technology Engineering Math) which enjoys special popularity is developed for seniors of schools with a physical and mathematical bias; The Center also helps school students to decide on professional orientation. As a result every tenth employee of the Center "is grown up" inside, but not involved from outside. A half of a command of department of Mainframes in the Center is made by specialists aged up to 26 years. But at the same time, the employees works hard in the Center from the moment of its basis. There is own racing command, team of experts, the basketball, volleyball, soccer national teams and chess.
- One of the most important tasks of Competence centers of Dell EMC in the world is cooperation with professional community for the purpose of assistance to development of the innovation infrastructure. The St. Petersburg Center cooperates with the leading technical colleges of St. Petersburg and Moscow, the academic community of the country and participants of a venture ecosystem of p
A photo from the development center
In June, 2015 the correspondent of TAdviser visited EMC development center in St. Petersburg. The photo report according to the results of visit is given below.
The center of the researches EMC in Skolkovo
In 2013 EMC opened a research and development center in Skolkovo which researches in the field of sciences about lives and medicine, in particular. The director of business development of this center Evgenia Maier told TAdviser that in addition to Russia the company has similar centers of researches in Brazil, China and Ireland. Each of them has the focus in the field of researches. For example, the center in Brazil is engaged in developments in the field of oil and gas.
Activity of a research and development center of EMC in Skolkovo is focused on preparation of cloud infrastructure for storage of genetic data and accomplishment of bioinformatichesky calculations for their correct and qualitative analysis. The company accepted the solution to open such center of researches because in Russia there are already strong mathematical and biological schools, explain in the company.
According to Evgenia Maier, as of June, 2014 in the center three projects are started. All of them are conducted in cooperation with partners. One of projects – work with a startup Skolkovo of Parsec Lab which is engaged in screening of rare diseases of newborns. The company, in particular, developed new type of diagnostics using the analysis of a genome. In the course of diagnostics the set of different data which, in view of large volumes, to physicians are difficult for processing and analyzing for further outputs is generated.
"Often it becomes "manually". Specialists of the center of the researches EMC in Skolkovo help Parsec Lab to solve these problems at essentially other, hi-tech level", - Evgenia Maier says.
In addition to cooperation with Parseq Lab, the center of the researches EMC in Skolkovo also cooperates with Laboratory of algorithmic biology of the Academic university in St. Petersburg. In this case development of the software product for the analysis of genomic and mass-spectrometer data is conducted.
Evgenia Maier tells that as of June, 2014 in the center of the researches EMC in Skolkovo 11 employees whose main part is made by experienced developers work. Active enrollment of specialists happened in the first half of this year, she says. Evgenia Maier notes that the center is focused on search of the specialists having competences in the analysis of Big Data, and ideally – as well in the field of bioinformation science.
The director of business development of the center adds to Skolkovo that specialists in bioinformation science in the market are not enough now. With respect thereto, EMC was engaged in support of this direction in Russia, developing cooperation with the different universities and scientific groups known in this area. The company, in particular, supports summer school on bioinformation science which is carried out in St. Petersburg from July 27 to August 1. In further EMC is also going to develop similar projects in other cities. Besides, the company is engaged in organization of events on bioinformation science together with partners.
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