Infra Mail.ru

2017

Access opening

On October 4, 2017 the Mail.Ru Group company announced opening of access to B2B-service of virtual cloud infrastructure Infra Mail.Ru for all comers. Earlier service was available only according to moderiruyemy requests.

The Infra Mail.Ru service allows to create virtual machines, disks, networks, fayervola and to manage them. Service is available both via the web interface, and through API which is completely compatible to API OpenStack and supports a system of orchestration Heat from OpenStack.

It is possible order the capacities corresponding to business needs via the web interface or API; expansion is made automatically. Thus, the company will be able to scale the virtual data center at any time as necessary. Payment for virtual capacities is made by bank cards or bank transfer, with billing and sending the necessary closing documents.

Use of Infra Mail.Ru will allow the companies to save not only on infrastructure maintenance, but also on equipment cost. Due to large volumes of purchases which we make we receive reduced prices for servers — respectively, and to our clients use of virtual infrastructure costs cheaper. Already now it is possible to be convinced of it: we published the price list with the cost of use of virtual machines and virtual disks — Denis Anikin, the technical director of mail and cloud services of Mail.Ru Group told.

According to Mail.Ru for October, 2017, the Infra Mail.Ru service is used by the companies of different profiles: retail, Internet services, ERP systems.

Announcement

On May 22, 2017 it became known of start of service of virtual cloud infrastructure by Mail.Ru Group company. The solution under the name Infra is designed to help business to cut down expenses on the IT equipment and the salaries of technical specialists, Kommersant tells.

Infra will allow clients to place infrastructure in virtual data center. Service will be integrated with other corporate online projects Mail.Ru Group, including the cloud storage of Icebox (stores backups, a log, media content, scientific and statistical data, working archives), Hotbox (service for quick access to data at high loads) and Teambox (a cloud for the working groups).

Mail.Ru Group will start service for placement of infrastructure of the companies in Infra cloud

Mail.Ru Group addresses Infra to the companies of the average and big sizes, namely — to Internet services, participants of IT market, banks, telecommunication and retail business.

The quotation to Infra in Mail.Ru Group was not called, but noted that at payment of 50 virtual servers (4 cores, 16 Gbytes of memory) in a year the cost of lease of one server will be 5 thousand rubles a month (60 thousand rubles a year) that is 20% cheaper in comparison with service of Amazon at comparable parameters. The price forms at the expense of discounts for servers which are bought by large parties for all services Mail.Ru Group, use of the data centers, the maximum use of own developments and freely extended software, reported in the company.

According to the statement of Mail.Ru Group, use of Infra will help clients to save "tens of percent" on lease, purchase of servers and network equipment and compensation of system administrators and engineers.

According to forecasts of SAP, the Russian market of cloud services will grow from 22.61 billion rubles in 2016 to 48.33 billion rubles in the 2020th, and the IaaS segment volume (Infrastructure as a Service is virtual infrastructure as service) will be tripled for the same period, having reached 15.62 billion rubles.^[1]

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