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Founded in 2004, VolgaBlob is a specialized player in the Russian market for information security and analysis systems Big Data.

In 2013-2019, they acted as a partner of Splunk (since 2018 - an Elite partner), offering the implementation and customization of data analysis solutions on this platform.

Since 2014, VolgaBlob representatives have been developing the Smart Monitor software package, which allows full-fledged search and analysis of Big Data in the corporate information system. Since 2019, the solution has been using open source software.

Performance indicators

2024: Revenue and net income growth of more than 30%

VolgaBlob summed up the work for 2024. The company's revenue and net income increased by more than 30% compared to 2023. At the same time, revenue from sales of the company's flagship product, the data analysis and processing platform Smart Monitor, increased by 68%. And the average daily volume of client data that Smart Monitor analyzes exceeded 2.4 petabytes - the figure rose by 633% in two years. The company announced this on February 19, 2025.

At the end of 2024, revenue increased by 31%, and net profit - by 33%. The unit revenue per employee exceeded 15%, while in 2023 this figure was 11%.

The company's clients include seaports, financial institutions, industrial holdings, government agencies and others. The international line of business has expanded, including presence in countries such as Brazil, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria.

Revenues from sales of the company's flagship product, the Smart Monitor data platform, designed for analysis, business processes umbrella IT monitoring, building/, have increased significantly. In SOCSIEM 2024, revenue in this area increased by 68%, while in 2023 the growth was 57%. The solution is in demand both in the Russian and global markets - in the international segment, the installation base of the product has become five times larger in a year.

Historically, the focus for us has been on cybersecurity projects. However, we see an increased demand for monitoring the entire IT infrastructure and business processes, which perfectly fits into the logic of our platform. Smart Monitor has more and more different functional modules with which the platform can replace a large number of foreign solutions and become the basis for full-fledged umbrella monitoring in companies, "said Alexander Skakunov, CEO of VolgaBlob.

He notes that the total number of Smart Monitor platform installations increased by 46% year-on-year, and the average daily volume of customer data that the platform analyzes exceeded 2.4 PB, an increase of 663% over 2 years.

As part of the development of the Smart Monitor platform, the SM Store was launched, in which functional modules of the platform are available - specialized applications designed to solve a specific task of a client from the fields of IT, information security or business monitoring. The SM Store provides development modules for both the VolgaBlob team and its partners.

Several platform updates were also carried out, including the interface, visualizations, as well as the Smart Beat Manager data collection tool. In addition, machine learning commands have become available on the platform. Updates are aimed primarily at improving the efficiency and speed of working with data.

Throughout the year, the company paid close attention to the development of the partner channel. Cooperation is carried out in several main areas: systematization of knowledge and development of presale engineers, cooperation with SOCs providing MSSP services, assistance to development teams on the side of partners creating their own modules for Smart Monitor. Also, on the basis of the VolgaBlob resource center, training for engineers took place - over the past year, 135 people passed it, which is 15% more than a year earlier.

In 2025, the company plans to continue expanding its partner business, as well as focus on promoting the concept of companies' antichroppiness, their resilience in response to possible threats and any "perfect storm" through the efficient use of data.

From a technical point of view, in 2025 we will focus on the functional development of our Search Anywhere data search and analysis technology and continue to improve hybrid storage, allowing seamless integration of different data arrays. In the context of a shortage of hardware computing power, this approach can significantly reduce financial costs for infrastructure. In addition, we plan to direct efforts to expand the "lineup" of platform functional modules. Large-scale updates will be presented at the annual VB-Trend conference in April, - Alexander Skakunov shared his plans.