G-Core Labs S.A.

G-Core Labs is an international provider of cloud and edge solutions headquartered in Luxembourg. G-Core Labs provides a range of services for customers of any industry in both traditional and fast-growing online markets, including managed hosting, CDN network, advanced media platform for professional broadcasts and streaming of any complexity, peering network, protection against DDoS attacks of any level, etc.

The range of services provided by the company includes hosting, equipment placement, protection against DDoS attacks, etc. Data centers of the company are located in 11 cities of the CIS. As of September 2018, the G-Core Labs network infrastructure covers five continents.

The largest client of the company is the developer of computer games Wargaming.

Services

Cloud Use Cases

Accelerate your site and make it available

• Online store sites should be ready for a constant increase in traffic and for peak loads due to various events and promotions (Black Fridays, New Year days, etc.).
• These factors significantly increase the requirements for IT infrastructure and cause a regular increase in the cost of acquiring and maintaining new server capacities.
• To effectively solve these problems, you can go to the cloud, and to quickly load an online store with an assortment of tens or even hundreds of thousands of items, it is also recommended to connect CDN.

Quickly develop and test your own services

• Continuous development of new services and products is one of the main conditions for survival in e-commerce.
• Retailers regularly improve user interfaces, personal accounts, mobile applications, loyalty programs, and experiment with design. This requires powerful resources.
• All these tasks are perfectly solved in the cloud. In addition, it is easy to isolate isolated test environments for third-party access and for various pilot projects.

AI and Big data services for customer behavior analysis and demand forecasting

• With a variety of consumer information, retailers use artificial intelligence and big data analysis systems to attract and retain customers.
• As a rule, the volume of data processed is huge, and the classic IT infrastructure does not always cope with the load. To achieve the required processing speed, you can place databases and analytical platforms in the cloud.

Protect against site and infrastructure DDoS attacks

• In 2020, more than half of online retailers noticed an increase in the frequency and power of DDoS attacks.
• Attacks are carried out on any infrastructure - both classic and cloud. But to protect against DDoS attacks based on your own equipment, large financial investments are required. For example, the price of a specialized software and hardware complex can reach tens of millions of rubles (excluding technical support, maintenance and salaries of employees).
• To significantly save, it is better to protect comprehensively with the help of a specialized service.

Development and deployment of internal services

• Recently, it has become popular for retailers to transfer internal services to the cloud (financial and ERP systems; logistics services; self-service portals; Internet telephony; information security, etc.)
• Retailers realized that there is no need to host many local servers in branches or stores - it is enough to organize access to the cloud, ensuring that applications are launched and data is stored in it.

Business in Russia

Main article: G-Core Rus

History

2019

Working with Wasabi to develop cloud storage and CDN

On November 7, 2019, G-Core Labs announced that together with the Wasabi American operator, cloudy data storage they agreed on a strategic partnership that combines the infrastructure and technological capabilities of companies. Wasabi customers access the global, and G-Core Labs Content Delivery Network G-Core Labs expands the geography of its cloud in, storages and To Europe North America Asia through Wasabi storage.

The collaboration will allow customers to significantly improve the speed of working with any data located in the cloud object storage services of both players, expand the geography of the company's presence, as well as ensure the almost reliable operation of data warehouses and the content delivery network with a 11x9 sustainability indicator and an average response time of up to 30 ms worldwide.

The solutions of companies will become one of the most effective in the market with the so-called. technology capabilities and pricing policies, reducing cloud-based content and business data storage costs by more than 2X of market offerings and giving information to end users much faster.

Cloud-based object storage enables you to effectively meet the needs of any business, whether it be providers multimedia online services, game developers or financial sector medical and services, to effectively manage growing data volumes, and also provides almost unlimited scalability and a often inaccessible level of protection for individual companies - all at zero infrastructure costs. To accelerate the download and return of multimedia content and business information to end users, storage services require high-performance content delivery networks that servers are located as close to customers and audiences as possible. And in this sense, the partnership of G-Core Labs and Wasabi seems to us one of the best in complex solutions in the market, noted Dmitry Samoshkin, vice president of G-Core Labs products

Thanks to this partnership, our customers have the opportunity to use the G-Core Labs content delivery network in combination with the Wasabi cloud storage of the 'hot storage' class. Wasabi customers in Europe, Russia and Asia can use CDN G-Core Labs directly from Wasabi's personal account through our S3 API. Together, we give our users the opportunity to maintain leadership in their markets, reducing storage costs and enabling faster and more reliable data delivery. said David Friend, CEO Wasabi

Opening a QA center in Perm for testing games

G-Core Labs logo in 2019

On October 17, 2019, G-Core Labs announced the opening of a game testing center (QA center). As part of the development of this area, the company entered into strategic cooperation agreements with the international developer and publisher of Wargaming games. The center's engineers have already begun testing the company's partner's flagship product, the online game World of Tanks.

The open division of G-Core Labs is located in Perm and is the first such center in the Ural region. Its opening gives rise to another business area of ​ ​ the company - Quality assurance. Thanks to Wargaming's extensive gaming experience and support, the company is confident in the success of the project.

{{quote 'author = says Roman Zhikharev, director of the G-Core Labs' G-Core Labs QA Center began as a provider of solutions for the gaming industry, and we know more than anyone how critical testing is to the business, and understand all the requirements made by our customers. We are a trusted partner of Wargaming. The creators of World of Tanks rely on us in such a responsible business as testing their key product, because for such a developer it is important that the pipeline does not stop for a minute. So far, we are doing simple work, but will soon expand the list of services. Already in October 2019, we are receiving requests from other Wargaming teams, }}

G-Core Labs plans to expand the QA Center to 50 engineers by the end of 2019, and increase its team to 100 people by mid-2020.

2017: Purchase Agreement SkyparkCDN

Logo in 2018

On June 3, 2017, G-Core Labs announced the signing of an agreement to acquire the Russian company SkyparkCDN, specializing in technologies to accelerate web resources and protect business from DDoS attacks.

The strategic goal of the merger is to improve network performance around the world through the integration of infrastructures. Together with the development of the network, it is planned to launch a common platform. The main feature of the platform is the complete automation of content distribution management tools. Thanks to it, customers will be able to use the service without first contacting sales specialists or engineers.