Cloud in law

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The revenue of domestic companies providing IaaS services increased by 34% in 2023, said Dmitry Gorkovenko, Director of Business Development at iKS-Consulting, at the Telecom forum on April 9. According to him, this is one of the highest figures for the Russian IT market, so banking organizations, large service providers, and investors are its potential stakeholders.

The IaaS industry is in an active consolidation phase, with around 20 players currently operating in it.

In the near future, the Russian cloud services market will see a whole series of mergers and acquisitions

confirmed CloudMTS COO Ivan Yatsko.  

Over the past year, the cloud market content writing service managed to overcome the turbulence stage, when there were difficulties with equipment supplies, believes Beeline Cloud Commercial Director Sergey Kondratyev. He added that during this time, the expertise of IT and information security specialists has grown significantly.



According to Yandex Cloud Product Director Grigory Atrepiev, information security has also become the main challenge for Yandex in 2023 .

Grigory Atrepyev, Yandex Cloud :

– The avalanche-like growth in the number of cyberattacks on IT infrastructure, as well as the increase in the number of projects related to the implementation of neural networks, are the main trends of this year.

The cloud market is still very young: it has existed for less than 10 years, noted Alexander Osipov, Director of Cloud and Infrastructure Solutions Development at MegaFon, at the forum. He added that large companies have only recently begun investing in this IT segment, and now not only large businesses, but also small and medium businesses are becoming clients of cloud services.

Alexander Osipov, MegaFon:

– The pace of digitalization in companies last year remained the same. Moreover, if earlier they completely rejected clouds from the point of view of hosting critical infrastructure, now this conservatism is disappearing.

The departure of foreign vendors and the disconnection from technical support and updates pushed Russian customers to the new multi-cloud paradigm, continued Mikhail Lobotsky, Business Development Director at Cloud.ru. He emphasized that

In a multi-cloud, tasks and risks are distributed among several providers

"The potential for cloud growth is huge, and I would rely not only on the Russian market, but also on the international one," emphasized Ilya Khala, CEO of 3Data. As part of digitalization, the volume of data is growing, and to meet demand, a significant increase in computing power and the construction of new data centers is required.

ON THE THRESHOLD OF CHANGE

Two years ago, the State Duma adopted amendments to Federal Law No. 126 "On Communications" in the first reading, Dmitry Gorkovenko, director of business development at iKS-Consulting, told RSpectr. These amendments legally enshrine the concept of "data center", and the commercial data center market is effectively becoming regulated.

Dmitry Gorkovenko, iKS-Consulting:

- We expect the amendments to be adopted in the autumn session, after the parameters of the national project "Data Economy" are approved. In the new regulation, the data center acquires the legal status of a communications facility. In turn, this will allow distinguishing data center operators from, for example, miners.

The requirements of large corporate customers for commercial data centers and cloud providers are very high, both in terms of FSTEC certification and in terms of compliance with service level agreements (SLA) and working with personal data. The adoption of the amendments will allow commercial data centers and cloud providers to operate within the legal framework and comply with these requirements, the expert believes.

Along with the growth of the cloud market by an average of 35-40% per year, the telecom industry also shows positive dynamics in the consumption of cloud services, Artem Voynov, head of sales at T1 Cloud, commented to RSpectr.

According to T1 Cloud forecasts,