Problems and Sheriffs
The cloud market is young and is in the stage of active
growth and, in part, transformation. Nevertheless, growth continues. To a large
extent, it is determined by the performance of major ICT providers, including
Huawei. Until recently, we knew it as an exclusively telecommunications
company, until it announced its withdrawal to other high-tech markets in
Russia.
Director of the IT solutions department of Huawei Artur Pärn
presented his company's view of the domestic cloud services market. One of the
problems is that there is growth, but it is not explosive. We do not see a
sharp "take-off" of either internal automation on cloud technologies
or public services. "The cloud market has not only drivers, but
stoppers," Alexander is convinced. - The first thing that impedes
development is the lack of data centers that offer public clouds certified for
compliance with 152-FZ "On Personal Data". What kind of development
can be said if, according to the law, a cloud with personal data can only be
private, even if it is located in the data center? The second obstacle is the
erroneous opinion that clouds are cheaper than owning their own infrastructure.
When calculating the cost of ownership for several years, this is not always
the case. " The last statement caused discussion among the participants of
the section, which revealed the same problem: everyone puts into the concept of
"clouds" a different content.
In the relationship of cloud technologies and the economy
need to clarify. One of the aspects of this was commented by Sergey Tabulin, head
of IBM's cloud solutions department in Russia and the CIS. In his opinion, the
clouds provide access to new business models and "work on the
API-economy." In this statement, he was referring not to the Application
Programming Interface itself, but to the organization's API strategy, which
includes the development of business products based on existing APIs, the
provision of services to developers, and the API monetization model for
building multi-channel interaction and increasing profits. "The principle
of the API-economy is the provision of existing business assets through a
digital interface for use by external and internal developers when creating new
services and applications," the speaker says. - And the most interesting
thing here is that there is an ecosystem - something that modern companies love
very much. They want more services to gain access to new markets and expand
opportunities on existing ones. " Implementation of these principles is
possible on cloud technologies.
Anton Salov, the director of the project office of
Rostelecom, also devoted his speech to the analysis of the situation in the
market of state loans. With this market are inextricably linked events that
have become drivers of the growth of cloud services in the country as a whole.
Not so long ago in Russia, computer hardware has risen in price, and those who
could not buy equipment, had to switch to the services of service providers.
And those, in turn, traditionally purchase equipment for future use and
therefore were able to afford the expansion of the volume of services. The
market, according to the speaker, has grown significantly - many analysts even
underestimate the rate of its increase. As for the "public sector of the
cloud market," its fate is largely determined by Government Decision No.
1236 of November 16, 2015, which limited the use of foreign software. And now a
number of organizations are obliged to purchase only the software that is
present in the register of domestic software. "But it is interesting that
in this resolution it is not said about the domestic data centers. And if you
want to buy some foreign program, you can still turn to Russian service
providers and purchase it as a service, "said Anton Salov.
The SaaS theme was less likely to meet as a topic for discussion,
although there is much to be said. This model of cloud services was devoted to
the speech by the development director of the company "Axiomatika"
Mikhail Lyapin. He recalled that it is possible to discuss the applicability of
technologies to this or that segment of the market only in the context of the
economy: if the segment does not bring money, then the clouds will not
"fly up" either. As an example, he called the SME sector, which SaaS
vendors hoped for, drawing enormous prospects with hundreds of billions of
dollars in turnover. "In fact," Mikhail Lyapin believes, "there
is no money in SMB for SaaS suppliers. The Russian cloud market is almost 10
years old. Except for SKB Kontur, the average successful Russian cloud service has
between 5 and 15 thousand customers, while in Russia there are about 3.5
million companies without one-day tickets. That is, the penetration of the
average popular SaaS service in Russia is 0.1%. " The only company that
managed to really earn software in the form of services for SMBs in Russia is,
according to the speaker, "1C", and everyone else is better off
looking for profits in the Enterprise sector.
Data centers and clouds are changing, says Vladimir Uraev,
senior sales specialist for DC & Cloud in the EMEA region of Juniper
Network. "Is it easy to use clouds today? No, because 95% of companies
face problems when moving their data to the cloud. 31% have a problem with
changing internal models of work in connection with such a transition, - the
speaker said. - Automation of the data center becomes very popular direction,
because up to now almost half of the failures in them are due to the fault of
the human factor. The share of hybrid clouds is growing: 82% of large companies
in the world use this model. " Changes are noticeable almost everywhere.
In particular, with increasing load on data centers, an increase in internal
traffic is associated, which forces suppliers to implement more efficient
network architectures.
What does this give the market?
Director of Business Development of HERE Pavel Kozlov
dwelled on the decisions his company owns in the sphere of cloud services. The
first geolocation cloud HERE launched in 2011, and after it was purchased by an
automobile consortium, its efforts were concentrated, among other things, on
the creation of cloud-based geolocation services for robotic machines.
"Motor transport is only part of what we do," he said. - Recently,
there is an increasing need to process data relating to the Internet of things.
But still the most important device connected to the Internet of things is a
car. And the data from the car sensors form the basis of the new cartography,
they allow creating new services that were impossible before. "
Vitaly Morozov, head of the group of DC & Telecom
company ABB, also translated the topic of clouds into the plane of the Internet
of things. It is characteristic that this company, which produces electrical
equipment and does not have a direct relationship to ICT, is also ready to
produce equipment for the Internet of things, in particular for the power
supply systems of data centers. Thus, it is once again confirmed that cloud
technologies at the intersection of industries provide additional opportunities
for the emergence of new solutions. "There is a need to create new data
center management platforms," says Vitaly Morozov. "The Internet of
things will cover all aspects, from exploitation to long-term planning:
analytics will be expanded with additional information, the approach to
preventive maintenance will be changed through the self-diagnostics of devices
of a new type."
Lattelecom is the largest IT integrator in the Baltic
States, and its business is similar to the one we know Rostelecom, said Maris
Sperga, director of data center solutions. In particular, he offered the
participants of the forum his vision of problems and restrictions that hamper
the growth of the clouds. "All IT in the clouds will never pass," he
said. - This is hampered primarily by the fear of giving their data to the
provider. The second limiter is distrust of security in the clouds. And,
finally, the problems of compatibility of technologies interfere ". How
can we overcome these limitations and succeed in developing cloud services?
According to Maris Spergi, the supplier must constantly
change and develop in accordance with the development of the market. He should
train clients, talk about the possibilities and technologies of the clouds. The
supplier needs to work closely with the business customer about the transition
to the cloud. And it is very important to maintain high-level content.
A look from the other side
Anton Pryamikov, Director of IT Support and Support
Department at Europlan Group, spoke about the practical approach to building
cloud services from the point of view of the customer. This leasing company has
upgraded the IT infrastructure using private cloud capabilities. In a single
virtual data center, which is built on distributed sites, 47 services of the
company have been implemented. About 1,800 employees of the company are
connected to them. Also, the speaker shared his opinion on what business needs
from the IT service: "Business needs to fulfill five points. The first -
everything works always, everywhere and quickly. Second - any malfunctions are
eliminated in minutes. Third - the errors of the program code are corrected for
hours. Fourth - changing the existing software is done over the days. And the
fifth - the introduction of new technologies takes weeks. "
There is a serious problem in the health care market, connected
with the exchange of data between different medical organizations and patients.
The only real way to unite them, according to Sergei Gilyov, the IT director of
Medscan, is to use cloud solutions. Why is this problem relevant right now?
Young people have a fashion for fitness trackers and other wearable
electronics, which accumulates potentially useful health data. In addition,
people are already used to receiving services remotely and in a
"mobile" form. And, finally, medical technologies allow to respond to
the requirement of remote medical data acquisition by patients.
But one problem hinders: this market does not exist.
Doctors, public and private clinics, patients are not related information in
any way. "What can be done in this situation? You need to have a single
cloud platform for everyone that will allow you to download, save and share
data, but in a simple action for the user. The patient should be able to choose
a doctor, and, most importantly, there should be an opportunity to ask the doctor
directly from the application with a question, "Sergei Gilyov is
convinced.
Against the stream
The market knows examples of not only the transition to the
clouds, but also the rejection of it. Victor Wagner, head of the IT department
of Absolute Insurance, said that due to a number of shortcomings in the server
software, he had to abandon the existing virtualization system and start
searching for a replacement. "After communicating with the providers of
cloud services, it was decided not to use them," the speaker said. -
Firstly, we wanted to use the acquired software before the end of its
operation, and not to renew the subscription each time for additional money.
Secondly, the amount that we counted for transferring the three main servers to
the clouds was 120-160 thousand rubles a month - for our small company these
expenses are inexpedient. Add to this the need to expand the access channel to
the Internet and the existing ban on the placement of certain data outside the
company's territory. " Thus, the option of switching to the cloud was not
possible, and the company instead introduced another virtualization system.
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