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Cloudy The RCloud by 3data platform is an aggregator cloud services created by the network. data centers 3data The platform is designed for companies that need a tool to build a secure cloud infrastructure.

2024

Accommodation in Miran data center

The RCloud by 3data platform is located data center Miran in. St. Petersburg The solution allows the cloudy platform to place IT infrastructure customers in a strategically important region. countries This was 3Data (3Data) announced on September 23, 2024.

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The cluster located in the Miran data center provides RCloud by 3data customers with greater resiliency and availability of cloud services in the Northwest region and beyond. Customers have access to IaaS and PaaS services, the ability to quickly connect their equipment to the cloud, a single technical support center for all services, and service management from a single management window.

It is important for the RCloud by 3data platform to improve the quality and availability of cloud services on an ongoing basis. The placement of the cluster in the Miran data center in St. Petersburg opens up new opportunities for us and allows us to offer our customers a reliable cloud infrastructure with flexible scaling, "said Valentin Sokolov, Chief information officer of the cloud platform RCloud by 3data.

The Miran data center operator has data centers designed in accordance with Tier 3 reliability and PCI DSS security standards. Data centers are connected to the main communication nodes of St. Petersburg and Moscow and are equipped with all the necessary systems to ensure the uninterrupted operation of the secure infrastructure.

It is important for Miran customers to receive a large number of high-quality services using the "one window" principle. Concluding a partnership agreement and placing a cluster of the RCloud by 3data platform in our data centers is another and very important step in the strategy of expanding the services provided by Miran to its customers, "said Yuri Gushchin, head of sales at Miran data centers.

The RCloud by 3data cloud platform adheres to the strategy of expanding geographically distributed infrastructure by placing new cloud clusters in different regions. countries As of September 2024, locations in, St. To Moscow Petersburg,, and are available to customers Vladivostok. Kazakhstan Amsterdam The operator also provides ready-made solutions: a secure cloud infrastructure, certified in accordance with, and a PCI-DSS 152-FZ certified cloud.

Integration of Alt Server and Alt SP Server

Two operating systems from the developer company "BASEALT" - "Alt Server" and "Alt SP Server" have become available to users of the cloud platform RCloud by 3data. This was announced by "BASEALT" on February 21, 2024. The OS can be deployed directly in the cloud, without installation on the customer's servers. Alt Server and Alt SP Server are designed to create, manage and expand IT infrastructure of any scale.

With Alt cloud-based OS, customers can centrally manage enterprise information resources, coordinate users, create clouds virtual and environments, and have the ability integration IT to -informulate the Russian with software, hardware, and support. The Alt SP Server OS with built-in software protection is certified (FSTEC of Russia certificate of conformity No. 3866).

In the cloud platform RCloud by 3data, Alt OS are available in the form of pre-configured templates, so that virtual machines can be created with the click of a button, "said Evgenia Krynina, acting commercial director of BASEALT.

She added that users will not have to waste time deploying virtual machines on their own. And pre-configured templates optimized for the cloud allow you to use your cloud resources sparingly and thereby reduce your financial costs.

RCloud by 3data continues to expand the range of client services and services. Thanks to the partnership with BASEALT and the integration of Alt OS into the list of cloud Marketplace services, customers will be able to quickly build a fault-tolerant and secure IT infrastructure with the ability to quickly scale to implement various business tasks of the company, "said Valentin Sokolov, Chief information officer of the RCloud by 3data cloud platform.

Customers have already been able to deploy Alt OS in the RCloud by 3data cloud aggregator using its single control panel. Platform specialists provide round-the-clock technical support to OS users.

2023

Integration with HPC Park Cloud Service

On July 5, 2023, 3Data, the developer of the RCloud by 3data cloud platform, together with HPC Park launched a GPU service to accelerate complex computing in the cloud. With this service, customers of the cloud aggregator will be able to optimize the processing of large amounts of data.

According to the company, HPC Park Cloud Service is a container-based platform Docker with which you can solve complex problems in the field HPC (), HPC (machine learning ML/DL) and (AI artificial intelligence). Containers presented Nvidia Tesla A100 server accelerators. The hardware platform is located Moscow data center in with duplicated communication channels and backup power supply.

For customers of the cloud platform RCloud by 3data, a stack of various solutions is available to automate the IT infrastructure of the business, which we are constantly expanding by introducing services. We see that more and more companies are using machine learning and AI, so we believe that specialists already need to think about the feasibility of introducing GPU calculations into their business processes. shared Valentin Sokolov, IT Director of the cloud platform RCloud by 3data

The HPC Park Cloud Service provides containers with ready-made software environment and popular frameworks for ML: Pytorch, Tensorflow, so that specialists in the field of Data Science and Big Data can quickly start working in their usual environment.

In the latest release, the platform was retrofitted by Nvidia Cuda. This technology assumes a minimal environment without installed frameworks, which can be supplemented by any convenient software environment. Customers also have the ability to connect network storage and switch it between containers, which allows you to combine containers into a network for horizontal scaling. Interaction with containers is possible using the Jupyter Lab raised in advance or via SSH.

Saving the state of the container works through mounting Ceph volumes, which eliminates the need to download and download saved containers. The file system is mounted directly from the networked storage to anywhere in the cluster.

A distinctive feature of the HPC Park Cloud Service is the working MIG technology for a kind of virtualization of a physical GPU card. Server GPUs (A100, H100) support Multi-Instance GPUs (MIGs) and have seven independent instances in a single GPU. Each instance is completely isolated, has high-speed memory, cache and its own computing cores. As part of the GPU service, containers with 1/7, 2/7, 3/7 and further up to 7/7 fractional parts of the entire Tesla A100 physical card are available to the customer. Fractional parts of an entire card are used to reduce cost or for less resource-intensive tasks, for example, where game accelerators are usually used.

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Using Veeam Backup & Replication v12

The cloud platform RCloud by 3data will use the latest version of Veeam Software - Veeam Backup & Replication v12. The company 3Data (3Data) announced this on June 1, 2023.

One of the key qualities of Veeam Backup & Replication v12 updates is the ability to directly back up to S3 object storage, bypassing local storage. When connected to cloud storage using the S3 protocol, the latest version of Veeam allows the customer to gain online access to all replicas of their virtual environment. Veeam Backup & Replication v12 also allows you to make the backup process more budgetary, saving resources on local storage.

In addition, thanks to the invariability of backups, Veeam v12 protects data replicas from encryption by malicious software. If necessary, the update allows you to scan tasks related to object storage to identify the risk of data corruption.

Running S3 Object Storage

RCloud by 3data has launched the S3 Object Storage service for business. The company 3Data (3Data) announced this on January 23, 2023.

Now for customers of the cloud service aggregator, a universal scalable solution S3 Object Storage has become available.

The S3 service is deployed based on the Ceph object storage. It is an open source product with a distributed file system, the basic property of which is painless scaling to petabay sizes, so S3 Object Storage is able to cover the needs of small and large businesses. Object storage in Ceph is implemented using special software that provides access to data through the S3 protocol and is an analogue of the Amazon AWS service.

S3 Object Storage can be used as an independent storage, as well as an auxiliary resource to other existing storage, thereby reducing the load on the current capacity of the customer. I also want to note that the service has passed many months of testing on the internal infrastructure of RCloud by 3data and meets all the necessary requirements for data storage reliability, "said Valentin Sokolov, [IT] director of the cloud platform RCloud by 3data.

Another important element of S3 is that the customer can provide access to storage objects simultaneously to many users, while the number of cases does not slow down access to data.

Object storage management is available on the RCloud portal, where the customer has the ability to create and delete buckets, load objects into buckets, configure access to the object, manage the lifecycle of the object and copy it to a folder. The customer can also manage S3 Object Storage through the API.

RCloudby 3data provides various solutions: IaaS; PaaS; SaaS; SECaaS. As of January 2023, there are more than 100 cloud services in the client services matrix.