Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, intends to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $357 million) into the development of a national cloud computing platform through 2015.
Rostelecom was appointed by the Russian government to develop the platform in March.
Alexey Nashchekin, VP for innovation at Rostelecom, announced the creation of an open consortium to develop the platform. The consortium is open to everyone from developers of applications to software integrators to hardware manufacturers.
In addition, according to CNews.ru, a Russian site covering IT issues, Rostelecom signed an agreement with IBM and is negotiating with Parallels, a company specializing in virtualization. PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture have offered to provide consulting services.
Rostelecom expects the cloud to pay off in 2014. Among expected cloud users are governmental organizations as well as corporate clients.
Source: Webplanet.ru
