IT services

While overall Russian IT market slows, cloud segment expected to skyrocket

February 25, 2013 November 19, 2014

Russia’s IT market was generally limping along last year, growing just 3.9% between January and September 2012 – a record low rate that’s still above the global average. Timur Farukshin, Director of Consulting at IDC Russia, in an exchange with CNews.ru last week, shared the IDC’s preliminary analytics for the period. Farukshin expressed confidence that …

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Russian solution launched worldwide to help enterprises manage Macs

February 15, 2013 February 15, 2013

In what it claims is a world first, Parallels, a global provider of desktop virtualization and cloud enabling solutions founded by a Russian team in 1999, has launched a “complete and simplified solution” to help IT personnel manage Macs in enterprise environments. The solution, named Parallels Management Suite, is a plug-in for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager …

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IT leader IBS innovates in energy saving and connected vehicle solutions

February 4, 2013 November 19, 2014

Moscow-based IBS Group, one of the largest IT service providers and software suppliers in Central and Eastern Europe, unveiled in late January its new ‘cloud’ platform, DMMessenger. Designed specifically for the energy and utilities market, the platform empowers smart grid solutions with a collaborative tool for regulating energy consumption. According to Mikhail Minkevich, vice president …

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The spark that ignited the Russian start-up scene

September 10, 2012 September 10, 2012

Startup Genome recently published research on the most active start-up ecosystems around the world. It listed Moscow as #10. It’s great to see Russia’s largest city rocket into this spot, given that in 2001 less than $100 million/year was invested in Russian seed and early stage tech vs. billions of dollars of private equity money …

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IBM cloud to advance Russian microelectronics

June 29, 2012 June 29, 2012

IBM and a consortium of leading Russian hi-tech companies and infrastructure organizations have agreed to jointly give a boost to the Russian microelectronics industry, IBM and Skolkovo, one of the consortium members, report. The centerpiece of the new project is the concept of an Electronics Technology Center (ETC) to be set up in Skolkovo, the …

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Mail.ru Group CEO announces $25 million fund for robotics

June 18, 2012 June 18, 2012

Dmitry Grishin, the CEO of Mail.ru Group, the LSE-listed Russian Internet group, announced on Friday the launch of a New York City-based investment fund dedicated to robotics startups. The fund, named Grishin Robotics, intends to inject $25 million into 10 to 20 early stage or middle-size companies developing robots in the fields of home maintenance, education, …

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The Russian microelectronics industry and national security

May 25, 2012 May 25, 2012

It is often forgotten, in today’s mobile, networked, and information-driven business climate, that many of the world’s most prominent “Silicon Valleys” – Hsin-chu, Taiwan; Ang Mo Kio, Singapore; “Silicon Saxony,” Germany; and even the original American Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area of California – were built largely or entirely on the semiconductor, or microelectronics, …

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Major software engineering conference invites speaker submissions

May 25, 2012 May 25, 2012

In the fall of each year, CEE-SECR, the software engineering industry’s key event in Russia and Central Europe, brings together researchers from computer science, IT, and software engineering academia as well as practitioners from private industry and government. This year’s event will be held November 1st and 2nd at Digital October, a top tech center …

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Government-sponsored cloud platform offers software, infrastructure and development solutions

May 16, 2012 May 16, 2012

Rostelecom, the state-owned telecom operator, has completed phase one of “Project 07,” the national cloud computing platform to be fully put together by 2015 as part of the federal Information Society program. The platform, launched in beta version in March under the o7.com domain name, offers cloud-based software, infrastructure and development platform services (SaaS, IaaS …

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IDC on Russia’s IT: crisis-woven cobwebs blown away

April 5, 2012 April 5, 2012

After spending three years in a post-crisis mire, IT sales in Russia reached an all-time high in 2011, IDC reported to Vedomosti and CNews.ru. According to IDC analysts, the Russian IT sector posted double-digit gains last year, growing at a CAGR of 25% to $30 billion, staging a spectacular comeback from 2009’s 40% year-on-year sag. …

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Microsoft starts PC game production in Yaroslavl

March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012

The US software giant Microsoft announced last week that a PC game production unit recently set up in Yaroslavl has started providing its products to Russian customers. An international digital entertainment company, Arvato Digital Services, has been contracted to produce Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console compatible games at its own factory in this city, which is …

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Mine fleet management solution provider Vist Group eyes IPO

March 13, 2012 March 13, 2012

Vist Group, a major, twenty-year-old Russian developer of turn-key IT solutions for mine fleet and railroad management systems, is considering seeking capital market opportunities, according to Reuters. A resident of Skolkovo, the government-sponsored technology hub outside Moscow, Vist could thus become the first Skolkovo resident to orchestrate an IPO. Vist has declined to make any …

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