Moscow

Icebox is included in the “Mail.ru for business” platform’s product line. It is a cloud storage for rarely used data - backups, logs, media content, scientific and statistic data and also archives. “Cloud for archives” can be connected to the company servers via API.

Icebox is a part of the object storage&nbsp;based on Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions platform.

Icebox

cloud_computing

VK plans to sell the My.Games gaming division, including the studios and gaming products, for 642 million dollars. The buyer is Alexandr Chachava, the managing partner of LETA Capital.

 
 After the acquisition, the founder of My.Games Vladimir Nikolskiy will continue managing the company. VK will develop gaming services under the VK Play brand headed by Vasiliy Maguryan, who has led the VK gaming division for over 8 years.

 
 According to the <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5582657" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">source</a> of Kommersant, it was the removal of VK apps from AppStore that forced the parties to close the deal. The gaming division generated one third of VK’s revenue. At the end of Q3 of 2021, 77% of sales of My.Games were made outside Russia and the CIS countries, primarily in the USA, Germany and France.

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 The plans of VK to sell My.Games were <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5283356" target="_blank">announced</a> at the end of March, but the company did not comment on the situation at that time.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/vk-prodast-podrazdelenie-my-games-za-642-mln/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Interfax

VK to Sell My.Games Division for 642 Million Dollars

During the On Software Import Substitution in Industries strategic session Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin noted that there exist domestic analogues of 80% of foreign software. There are one or two analogues for one third of these 80%. “And, most importantly, more than half of the solutions available on the Russian market are of medium or higher maturity level. There is no need to create them from scratch, we just need to enhance and use them,” Mishustin stated.

 
 The government has discovered almost 400 types of corporate software, the imports of which were extremely important for business. Annual spending of companies on licenses, implementation and support of such software is estimated at 200 billion rubles (2.9 billion dollars).

 
 Furthermore, Mikhail Mishustin said, the list of critical infrastructure objects will be expanded. This is necessary for accelerating the switch to Russian software. “We plan to include all key types of systems and applications into the range of critical infrastructure objects. The government will set the deadline for switching to Russian software for each item,” prime minister added.

 
 The session included the discussion of work results of 15 industrial competence centers in mechanical engineering, construction, utilities, pharmaceuticals industry and other areas. The representatives of ministries, state corporations, universities and associations, as well as of Kaspersky Lab, Bellsoft, ER-Telecom, VK, Amethyst Capital and other companies took part in the event.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/mishustin-dlia-80-inostrannogo-softa-est-rossiiskie-analogi/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Mikhail Mishustin: Russian Analogs Exist for 80% of Foreign Software

Yandex announces the completion of asset swap with VK. Yandex has acquired the Delivery Club food and grocery delivery service, while VK has acquired Yandex.Zen and Yandex.News in exchange.

 
 Yandex will continue developing the Delivery Club brand, its app and website will still operate. At the same time, the service will complement Yandex.Eats on the single technology platform.

 
 The deal was approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

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 Earlier Yandex was <a href="https://t.me/IFX_Digital/957" target="_blank">reported</a> to have acquired 99.95% of Delivery Club, the remaining shares belonging to GIS Tekhnologii (Yandex subsidiary). The deal was closed on September 8.

 
 The details of the asset swap between Sber, Yandex and VK were <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/iandeks-pokupaet-u-vk-servis-dostavki-delivery-club/" target="_blank">revealed</a> on August 23. VK announced that it would exit the O2O Holding (joint venture with Sber) and would acquire 100% of Delivery Club, which would later be transferred to Yandex. In exchange, VK will get the news aggregator and Zen.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/iandeks-zakryl-sdelku-po-prodazhe-dzena-i-novostei-i-pokupke-delivery-club/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Yandex

Yandex Sales Zen and News and Acquires Delivery Club

The companies of Yandex, VK, Ozon, MTS, Beeline and AmberData (controlled by the National Media Group) plan to become advertising data operators, which are required to send information about all campaigns in Runet to Roskomnadzor starting from the fall of 2022. Previously, it was expected that advertising market players would be able to independently transfer this information (the cost of contracts, the timing of campaigns, etc.) directly or through advertising data operators. However, a new set of amendments was adopted in July, allowing the data to be transmitted through advertising data operators only.

 
 According to the RBC sources, Yandex and VK have confirmed plans to become advertising data operators. MTS expects that the company’s subsidiary will be included in the list of applicants for this status. Ozon also confirmed the plans to create its own operator. AmberData is “working on theoperator creation”.

 
 According to Stanislav Danilov, a partner at the Pen & Paper law firm, working through an advertising data operator allows the advertiser to avoid the risks of incomplete or inaccurate data provision. Roskomnadzor said that it “does not have the authority to set prices for the services of advertising data operators”. At the same time, there are no instructions or recommendations concerning the costs of advertising data operator services in the law and in the already adopted bylaws.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/shest-rossiiskikh-kompanii-planiruiut-stat-operatorami-reklamnykh-dannykh/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Six Russian Companies Plan to Become Advertising Data Operators

According to VK and ANO Digital Platforms, Russian app stores RuStore and NashStore have been downloaded 1.5 million times in total. In particular, 500,000 users installed RuStore developed by VK with the support of the Ministry of Digital Development. In total, more than 1,000 apps were placed at the store (as of July 12). The number of installations is more than 1 million.

 
 The most frequently <a href="https://vk.company/ru/press/releases/11215/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">downloaded</a> RuStore apps are financial ones (more than 50% of all downloads). Other popular categories are Tools (services for life and work; 10% of downloads), Entertainment (9% of downloads) and Shopping (6% of downloads).

 
 NashStore, developed by ANO Digital Platforms, has been downloaded by more than 1 million people. Users have installed 3.5 million different applications from this app store.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/rossiiskie-magaziny-prilozhenii-rustore-i-nashstore-skachali-1-5-mln-raz/" target="_blank">Original in Russian</a>

Izvestia

Russian App Stores RuStore and NashStore Downloaded 1.5 Million Times

databases

cloud_service

Try Tarantool

cybersport

videogames

My.Games Cloud

Питание

Доставка

Транспорт

Delivery_Club

Online platform connecting restaurants, couriers, and customers 

delivery

online_service

ecosystem

foodtech

Delivery Club

City_mobil

taxi

Citymobil

Credentia

The platform helps to create legally significant digital documents with lifelong storage by using public and consortium distributed ledgers. Credentia is a cloud-based service for issuers that allows to create and send documents to recipients. The service also includes recipient's personal mobile digital portfolio that can store and display documents from the user’s mobile phone or computer.

HygieneGap application and the implementation of the DHID (disposable health identificators) standard help EU citizens to confirm their current health status in a safe and verifiable manner and to disclose information about contacts and movements during quarantine. The company has engaged in negotiations with the Department of Information Technology of Moscow on the company’s launch in Russia.

Platform for issuing, storing and verifying digital documents

medicine

blockchain

TerraTeсh

Roscosmos

Commercial&nbsp;cloud&nbsp;service&nbsp;for the distribution of space images from the Russian constellation of Earth remote-sensing satellites of the company&nbsp;JSC TerraTech (a subsidiary of the Russian Space Systems holding, is a part of the “Roskosmos” State Corporation).
Resursy.RF allows to identify real estate that is not registered in the cadastre, calculate the potential amount of property and land tax that is not received in the budget of a municipality, and search for investment-attractive lands that are free from economic activity for sale on a rental basis or in ownership.

The service&nbsp;allows the municipality or another regional entity to obtain information about all the buildings in the territory, combine the data obtained with the state real property cadastre and get the result in the form of a database of real estate objects not registered in cadastre.

Geoinformation service of “TerraTech”

geoinformation_systems

Resursy.RF (Resources.RF)

Beeline

The services of Virtual data center include DRaaS (Disaster Recovery), BackUp, “1C” and “Highload” systems deployment and Asterisk universal infrastructure for cloud PBX. BeeCLOUD technological capabilities include a network of data centers certified in accordance with TIER-III/TIA-942. Special clusters for 1C infrastructure are allocated to data centers.

The platform is connected to the federal IP MPLS network “Vimpelcom”. Geographically dispersed Multi-Cloud platform is based on VMware, Hyper-V and Openstack (KVM) technologies, which provides a range of possibilities: from “infrastructure-as-code” solutions for developers to deploying high load systems in Enterprise cloud and organizing multi-master topology for mission-critical business systems.

For SMEs BeeCLOUD SME version is available.

datastorage

telecom

BeeCLOUD

Rostelecom

It is a service for leasing National cloud platform’s computing power to deploy clients information system.

The service provides flexible configurations for virtual machines (any OS and any configuration), possible virtualization platforms are Windows Azure Pack (Hyper-V hypervisor by Microsoft), VMware ESXi or KVM.

There are two ways of managing data storage and processing center: a simple panel for business users and additional tools for system administrators.

In addition, the service provides a customizable tool for monitoring the virtual infrastructure with SMS or e-mail notifications, load balancing, DNS management, access to virtual infrastructure via VPN, protection from DDoS attacks and backupping.

Virtual data storage and processing center