Moscow

Sberbank

SberFood features over 50 thousand restaurants with descriptions. The service is based on the algorithms of Plazius and Afisha-Restaurants.

The functionality includes pre-ordering of food and beverages, reservations, paying the check and tipping online, Afisha-Restaurants recommendations and selection of restaurants and other. You can log in in the app via mobile phone or using Sberbank ID.

cafe

mobile_application

SberFood

IXcellerate, an operator of commercial data centers, raised about $190 million for development. SberInvest and the Russian Direct Investment Fund are among the investors.

 
 The funds will be used to expand North and South campuses in Moscow. The investments will enable IXcellerate to build new facilities, increase power capacity and run one of the largest data center campuses in Europe.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/operator-data-tsentrov-ixcellerate-privlek-okolo-190-mln-na-rasshirenie-kampusov-v-moskve/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Data Сenter Operator IXcellerate Raises $190 Million to Expand DPCs in Moscow

Sberbank’s e-trading platform and bank-to-bank settlements services were named best in Central and Eastern Europe according to Global Finance magazine.

 
 The jury members mentioned that:

<ul>
 <li>&nbsp;Sberbank's payment services and the Sber FinLine system had facilitated over 350 million ruble transactions worth 5.7 trillion rubles for more than 500 client banks in 45 countries;</li>
 <li>Cash Management products for financial institutions had enabled them to make settlements in Visa, MasterCard, AmEx payment systems;</li>
 <li>SberCIB Terminal electronic trading system supported conversion transactions with major world currencies and currencies of emerging markets, transactions in various settlement modes, deliverable and settlement forward contracts and placement of deposits and minimum balances.</li>
</ul>

 
 Last year Global Finance recognized Sberbank as the best digital bank in Russia for individual and corporate clients.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/sber-priznan-luchshim-bankom-po-platezhnym-servisam-dlia-finansovykh-institutov-evropy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian) </a>

Sberbank Named Best Bank in Europe for its Interbank Payment Services

Sberbank and the Higher School of Economics have published an interactive version of the Atlas of Future Professions. It includes 50 promising professions, which are distributed in 12 areas, including Information Technology (IT) and Cybersecurity.

 
 There are four professions in the IT category: multi-cloud solutions architect, neuroinformatics, robotics engineer, and VR/AR engineer.

 
 The Cybersecurity category includes five professions: Cloud Cybersecurity Specialist, Anti-cyber Fraud Specialist, Personal Data Protection Expert, Threat Analyst, and Vulnerability Researcher.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/neiroinformatik-i-inzhener-vr-ar-voshli-v-spisok-it-professii-budushchego/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Neuroinformatics and VR/AR Engineer Included in the List of Future IT Professions

Russian experts on innovative activity, the impact of the pandemic on it, and further development vectors

ICT.Moscow

Innovation Explained: a View on Current Innovative Processes

According to the <a href="http://survey.iksconsulting.ru/page23992645.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">forecast </a>of iKS-Consulting, the volume of the domestic market of cloud infrastructure services in 2021 will exceed $747.5 million (54 billion rubles). In 2020, this figure was 39.4 billion rubles.

 
 Cloud providers SberCloud, Yandex Cloud and VK Cloud Solutions increased their market shares more than others. As the authors of the study note, these companies are developing "clouds" in conjunction with the ecosystems built around them. At the same time, new players in 2020 demonstrated a multiple growth in sales of cloud services both in the IaaS segment and in PaaS.

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 Product cards

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/card/info-sbercloud-ru/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SberCloud</a>, <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/card/yandex-cloud/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Yandex.Cloud</a>

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 According to iKS-Consulting analysts, the market will grow at an annual rate of almost 27%. By 2025, its volume will be 140 billion rubles.

 
 <a href="https://t.me/ICT_Moscow/5326" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

iKS-Consulting

Russian Market of Cloud Services in 2021 May Exceed $747 Million

supercomputers

artificial_intelligence

neural_networks

Christofari Neo

A platform for uniting venture market participants

fintech

startups

investments

SberUnity

Christofari

electronic_payments

Yoomoney

Viewapp

Application for performing inspections according to specified scenarios

insurance

ViewApp

TInkoff

Tinkoff Call Defender

Tourphone

TourPhone

Briskly

ecosystem

cloud_technologies

machine_learning

computer_vision

sberfood