The Pirate Party of Russia, a socio-political group campaigning for “commerce-free exchange of information on the Internet,” is launching a specialized web hosting service, Piratehost.net, just three weeks after the Russian Ministry of Justice refused to register it officially for bureaucratic reasons. In his blog, Party vice chairman Stanislav Shakirov called his group’s initiative an …
Last week Parallels announced that it secured an equity investment from Cisco to support joint go-to-market activities. The companies intend to strengthen collaboration towards accelerating customer adoption of Parallels cloud service delivery products with Cisco cloud and data center infrastructure solutions. The amount of the investment has not been disclosed, but Parallels press service confirmed to East-West Digital News …
During a US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission meeting held on October 30, foreign and Russian experts debated approaches that the participants thought would be beneficial for Russia to choose in its drive for innovation. Marchmont CEO Kendrick White took part as an American expert. He shares his impressions and his ideas on how to improve what seems …
Kendrick White on Russia’s modernization: “We cannot wait another twenty years” Read More
Moscow, Russia — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is making a $2.6 million (RUB 83 million) equity investment in datacenter operator IXcellerate to support the construction of a major data facility, expanding access to information technology infrastructure for businesses in Russia. Construction of a new top-tier datacenter with an internationally experienced management …
IFC partners with IXcellerate to expand access to IT infrastructure in Russia Read More
2011 was a rather disappointing year for M&A both globally and in Russia. Compared to the 6% decline in the value of global M&A deals, Russia’s M&A market experienced an even stronger reduction in value, by almost 28%. This is a sign of its continuing higher volatility, but also the result of fewer mega deals …
Report: M&A in the Russian communications and media sector in 2011 and early 2012 Read More
Microsoft and the Russian Academy of Sciences inked a long-term collaboration memorandum of understanding last week, pooling their efforts to develop the use of advanced IT tools in the academy’s research activities as well as joint education programs in Russia. In particular, Microsoft will assist the academy in upgrading its IT infrastructure, including a prospective …
Microsoft to bring more technology to Russian academics Read More
Megafon, one of Russia’s leading mobile operators, leaked to the media last week that it plans to launch data processing centers by 2013 in each of Russia’s federal districts – the eight supra-regional territorial formations created in 2000 to ease the governance of a country that spans nine time zones. According to a report by …
Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, has launched the construction of a mega data center, located on the premises of the Serp i Molot factory in Moscow. The center’s storage capacity has not been disclosed, but the server rooms will occupy some 10 thousand square meters – twice as much as Sberbank’s existing mega data …
Rostelecom building giant data center in Moscow to run government cloud platform Read More
The potential of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, as a research and development base for marketable high tech products has been illustrated, for one of the first times, by the first international sales of a cloud computing solution developed with the support of Skolkovo’s IT cluster.
In an unprecedented experiment to ensure voting transparency, most of Russia’s 94,300 polling stations were equipped with webcams offering a live broadcast of yesterday’s voting. The broadcast, which started at midnight, Moscow time, on election day, ended after all vote counting operations were completed. It was followed by up to 400,000 simultaneous Internet users on a …
nScaled, a provider of cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions, announced yesterday that it has completed a Series A round of financing, securing $7 million from Almaz Capital, one of the best established Russian venture funds, and Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, an international investment company, as well as from leading Silicon Valley angel investors.
One of the Russia’s most anticipated nationwide startup contests, Startup of the Year held court with a swarm of young entrepreneurs, concepts and high tech demonstrations last Thursday on the campus of the Moscow Higher School of Economics (HSE). The annual event takes place every December and is organized by HSE business incubator HSE Inc.
