VK Cloud Streams

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• Big Data
• SaaS - History. Philosophy. Development drivers
• Data management

2023: Service Launch

On June 8, 2023, VK (formerly Mail.ru Group) launched a cloud service for real-time data streaming - Cloud Streams. It is based on Arenadata Streaming and allows you to quickly build an enterprise data warehouse, create analytical services for processing hundreds of messages per second and receive insights from unstructured information.

Companies can use Cloud Streams to build streaming apps through a GUI and quickly scale resources in the cloud to accommodate growth or load reduction. In VK Cloud, with just a couple of clicks, you can add new computing power to the cloud cluster or disable unnecessary ones.

Cloud Streams can receive and process data from enterprise and disparate external systems, store it for a given period of time, and return it to users with the required load. The service can also be used as a data bus between enterprise applications.

The service is easy to integrate with components, Cloud Big Data with all managed DBMS in VK Cloud, as well as with tools, Elasticsearch Couchbase Cassandra thanks to a large set. In API addition, Cloud Streams is compatible with (based on Arenadata Hadoop the Apache Hadoop ecosystem of services) and Arenadata DB based on. This Greenplum allows you to build a comprehensive solution for all stages of work big data with with the products from. register of Russian software

The service is based on the Apache Kafka message broker and the Apache NiFi data flow automation tool. These components will be available to Cloud Streams users as managed services. Kafka and NiFi are standards in building systems for working with large data arrays. They allow you to implement messaging between server applications and manage data flows from different sources.

{{quote 'Cloud Streams provides companies with a stack of technologies for processing information in real time. Cloud services allow you to quickly deploy the necessary tools and manage resources on a click when the load changes. This is relevant for companies operating with large amounts of streaming data. Among them, for example, streaming services, companies from the financial sector, suppliers of industrial solutions based on the Internet of Things. The solution is based on the products of the Russian vendor - Arenadata - and is located in the VK Cloud, which provides increased protection of sensitive data, "said Mikhail Tutaev, Product Director of VK Cloud. }}

{{quote 'Together with our partner VK Cloud, we offer a completely Russian solution for multi-profile work with data in the cloud. We invest significant resources in adapting our software products so that customers can fully use Arenadata software in the clouds. I am sure that many organizations in our market will appreciate the opportunity to quickly get the necessary data services within the framework of a single domestic cloud platform, "said Anton Chevychalov, Information Technology Director of Arenadata. }}