IT services

Russian-American software developer Mirantis lands $10 million in funding

June 20, 2013

Mirantis, a California-based software developer and systems integrator with offices in Russia and Ukraine, attracted a $10 million Series A funding round in early June. The investment was made by Ericsson, Red Hat, and SAP Ventures, along with existing investor WestSummit Capital. The company plans to use the funding to enhance the engineering roadmap for …

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Russian authorities to scan social networks and blogosphere for crime threats

November 19, 2014

In a bid to anticipate and curtail misdemeanors potentially originating from Russia’s social networks and blogosphere, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has launched an open tender for IT solutions that would enable investigators to do so. The Committee, responsible for investigations of particularly important cases of crimes against individuals, public safety, the national …

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Russian offshore software developer Luxoft heading toward New York IPO

May 24, 2013

Luxoft, a major offshore software developer headquartered in Moscow, announced yesterday that it has filed a registration statement for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A ordinary shares. The book-running managers in the operation will be UBS Limited, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, VTB Capital, and Cowen and Company. According to the filing, Luxoft …

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Russian authorities in search of new suppliers for e-government

May 13, 2013

Russia’s government prefers to take its time before signing a new contract with an outside service provider to support its electronic infrastructure, including systems of interdepartmental collaboration, the government services portal Gosuslugi.ru, and a unified system of identification and authentication. So far, the government’s provider for these projects has been Rostelecom, Russia’s leading telecom operator, …

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NTT Communications to offer data center services in IXcellerate’s Moscow datacentre

May 7, 2013

Moscow – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary NTT Com Russia will offer a wide range of data center services in Russia viaIXcellerate’s Moscow One carrier-neutral data center in Moscow, beginning with colocation services in May, this year. IXcellerate’s recently completed facility offers premium enterprise-class data center services in a …

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TomTom Traffic launches in Russia

May 2, 2013

Amsterdam – TomTom has made its world-class traffic information, TomTom Traffic, available in Russia. For the first time, navigation application providers, automotive partners and government departments will be able to pinpoint the precise location of traffic congestion and minimize delays by re-routing traffic to avoid congested areas. The results of TomTom’s Annual Congestion Index, released in …

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E-commerce platform TetraMall helps manufacturers, distributors go online

April 29, 2013

Russia’s manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers can now experiment with online sales without investing in their own IT, payment, fulfillment or even online marketing capacities. A new specially-designed platform called TetraMall was launched last month to offer such clients a complete set of services for starting e-commerce activities “quickly and successfully.” The St. Petersburg-based company claims …

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Luxoft acquires open-source solutions of Freedom OSS

April 29, 2013

Luxoft, a prominent offshore software developer with headquarters in Moscow, announced last week the acquisition of the open-source solutions of Freedom OSS as well as “some [of its] other assets.” Based in Newtown, PA, Freedom OSS provides clients in the U.S. with consulting and implementation services related to JBoss and Red Hat Professional Open Source products.

Almaz, Runa and TA Venture team up to establish Ukraine’s first IT-focused grant fund

April 17, 2013

Three major venture capital funds, Moscow-based Runa Capital and Almaz Capital as well as Kiev-based TA Venture, in conjunction with BIONIC Hill innovation park, Ukraine’s first innovation park, are joining forces to establish the Global Technology Foundation (GTF). Ukraine’s first grant fund specifically devoted to IT, the foundation will provide pre-seed stage grants and support for promising …

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New Yandex Finnish data center to enjoy cool climate and trim costs

November 19, 2014

Russian search giant Yandex is getting ready to build a data center in neighboring Finland, its third such facility outside Russia. The project is slated to break ground in August on an 8-hectare parcel 60km north of Helsinki that Yandex purchased from the Mäntsälä municipality for 1.5 million euros, Tatyana Komarova of Yandex’s press service …

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Russia’s Runa Capital leads investment round in Dutch cloud backup provider

March 19, 2013

Runa Capital, a Moscow-based, $135 million tech fund operating internationally, has led a $2 million investment round in BackupAgent, with existing investor Solid Ventures also participating in the round. The company has yielded a minority stake in the transaction which was announced this morning. A major provider of cloud backup solutions, BackupAgent is headquartered in …

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Deputy Minister of Communications Mark Shmulevich: “Less than 1% of the Russian workforce is employed in the IT sector, vs. more than 4% in the US.”

March 19, 2013

Russia’s Deputy Minister of Communications Mark Shmulevich spoke with Elena Shipilova of Russia Beyond The Headlines about how IT can become Russia’s leading non-resource sector in terms of export volumes, what to do in order to make the profession attractive among young people and what foreigners can learn from their Russian counterparts.

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