Turbo Cloud

2025: Turbo Cloud brand launch

Rostelecom decided to budge from its cloud business, represented by the RTK-DPC brand , the direction of services for the B2B segment and focus on its development under a separate new brand - Turbo Cloud. Representatives of the Turbo Cloud team spoke about this at a press conference on September 30, 2025.

It is planned to invest about 40 billion rubles in the development of B2B clouds in their new incarnation until 2030. The most capital-intensive areas of investment are AI infrastructure, cybersecurity and geography expansion, the Turbo Cloud team explained.

Until now, both B2B and B2G cloud services of Rostelecom have developed under the RTK-Data Center brand. The decision to develop them now separately in the company is explained by the fact that these two segments are very different from each other - in terms of regulation, import substitution, budget cycle - and, accordingly, require different approaches. For example, for business, speed is more important than pieces of paper.

The B2G-focused business will continue to operate within the same legal structure and brand as before. And for Turbo Cloud, they form a separate legal entity, where Alexander Obukhov will become the general director, who since 2022 has been the director of products at RTK-DPC.

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Фото: TAdviser

As Alexander Obukhov clarified, answering TAdviser questions, it is planned to register a new company by the end of 2025. Turbo Cloud will be a 100 percent subsidiary of the Data Storage Center (part of the group under the RTK-DPC brand). He also cited TAdviser data that at the start there will be about 500 people in the Turbo Cloud team, and in total about 4 thousand employees work at RTK-DPC.

In addition to Alexander Obukhov, the Turbo Cloud team includes a number of other experienced managers. Thus, Mikhail Sokolov, Director of Strategy and Technology at Turbo Cloud, Director of Development of Commercial IT Products at RTK-DPC. Before working here, he, among other things, worked at Yota, and later - in the team of ex-deputy minister of communications, co-founder and ex-head of Yota Denis Sverdlov, taking part in the development of various technological startups abroad. Among them was the notorious designer of electric cars Arrival, which later went bankrupt, which was founded by Denis Sverdlov.

Vadim Samoilov became the deputy general director for business development at Turbo Cloud, who worked as the deputy general director at the data center operator DataLine before Rostelecom bought it. The position of commercial director was taken by Lev Kanoda, also a native of DataLine, where he worked as director of business development.

Turbo Cloud will rely on Rostelecom's geodistributed data center network as an infrastructure base for providing services. At the same time, the new company will focus on sales of cloud services - mainly IaaS and PaaS with an eye, which will gradually become more and more SaaS services on the Turbo Cloud platform. She does not plan to provide colocation services. An exception may be cases when it comes to providing a hybrid service that includes both colocation and clouds. And the "naked lease of the hall" remains in the "RTK-DPC."

First of all, as expected, Turbo Cloud is focused on large business as customers. However, gradually the pool may expand due to smaller customers, the company noted.

From the point of view of technologies, when launching a new brand, we are also talking about launching a new technological platform, said Mikhail Sokolov. RTK-Data Center already has more than 50 of its own cloud services and more than 65 cloud services of partners - virtual infrastructure, platform services, tools for working with AI, etc. And in the near future, Turbo Cloud plans to implement the opportunity for developers and publishers of cloud applications to independently place their products for users on the marketplace. In this case, SaaS services are primarily implied. There is already a marketplace, but we are talking about implementing the possibility of self-service for developers, TAdviser was specified in the company.

I must say that such a marketplace is already essentially a market standard, all the main players have it. Mikhail Sokolov notes that, starting from market trends, the Turbo Cloud platform is architecturally focused on multicloud: when a customer uses services from more than one provider, uses a private and public cloud at the same time, and at the same time can carry out end-to-end transparent management of this entire landscape. This is called one of the key features of its platform in Turbo Cloud.

Among the key competitors of Turbo Cloud in the cloud services market are players such as Yandex, Sberbank and VK. The main competitive advantage of Turbo Cloud, Alexander Obukhov, was designated as a "service with a human face." For example, "the mass of players on the market does not have a dedicated account manager that we have," he explained in response to a TAdviser question. Turbo Cloud added that many players in the cloud market are reducing the number of communication channels given the development of AI. And Turbo Cloud expects to keep the maximum number of communication channels for the convenience of the client. Vadim Samoilov added to the "piggy bank" of differences that Turbo Cloud is able to carry out any integrator projects, while "classic cloud providers" provide simply packaged services with a set of instructions: an examination taken from Rostelecom allows you to more flexibly adapt to the customer and create individual clouds. "Not everyone knows how to work with large corporate customers in the cloud market," said Vadim Samoilov.

The key advantages in Turbo Cloud include the extensive geography provided by Rostelecom's infrastructure - more than 20 sites in 5 federal districts.

According to IDC analysts, the annual growth of the Russian cloud market in the coming years will be approximately 30%, which is more than the global indicator - about 20%. An optimistic market forecast was an additional incentive for Rostelecom to create a dedicated cloud business.