Review IT Weekly (05.10 – 11.10.2020)Gennady Belas | 11.10.2020
Distribution
“Marvel-Distribution” and the Russian developer of integrated information security systems “Smart-Soft” announced the beginning of cooperation.
Partners marvel available solution Smart-Soft is a universal security gateway (UTM) Traffic Inspector and multifunctional Next Generation firewall, Traffic Inspector.
Traffic Inspector Next Generation — hardware and software UTM for your organization controlled access to the Internet and protect them from external threats. It provides filtering at different levels of the model
And OSI management through a web interface over a secure HTTPS connection, and also via SSH using terminal access. The decision takes place in the gateway role at the boundary of the corporate
network, allowing you to control the flow of information between the local network and the Internet. Traffic Inspector is a multifunctional firewall to control and protect Internet access
corporate computer networks.
diHouse began supplying equipment Chinese brand 360
Company diHouse has signed a distribution agreement with the company QiHoo 360 —
Chinese software developer it solutions and manufacturer of equipment under the brand 360. In Federal trading networks have already entered the robotic vacuum cleaner of this brand.
Company diHouse became the first official distributor of 360. On sale 3 models of robots-vacuum cleaners with laser navigation and one model with gyro.
MERLION and CSBI (JSC “Computer systems for businesses”),
Russian developer of IT solutions for commercial and government sectors, has signed a distribution agreement. It has already entered into force, period of validity is one year with the possibility
repeated extension. The status of the exclusive distributor MERLION from October 2020 launches a new RPA solution ROOMY bots – complex to automate “manual”
algorithmic processes by using software robots. Fields of application solution (for any medium and large business) can be: Finance, Analytics and reporting, personnel management,
legal business, IT infrastructure, marketing and sales, workflow, operational processes in the enterprise, support.
“Marvel-Distribution” and Huawei Enterprise has signed a Memorandum
on strategic partnership (MOU). The parties intend to continue the distribution of solutions of Huawei with the help of affiliate network “marvel” for the representatives of the financial sector, industry,
transport, energy, mining and other industries, as well as for government organizations and the SMB sector.
Their signatures on the document have put the General Director of “marvel-Distribution” Alexey Melnikov and CEO of Huawei Enterprise Business Group in the Eurasia region Xiao Haijun.
Vendors
Veeam Software announced the acquisition of the company Kasten,
working in the field of backup and disaster recovery platform for Kubernetes. The amount of the transaction amounted to $150 million in cash and stock. According
the research group 451 Research, a member of the media S&P Global Market Intelligence, today almost three-quarters of organizations use Kubernetes or
plan to start to use it in the next two years. Veeam integrates Kasten in their management platform of cloud data.
New products
Veritas Technologies has introduced an updated platform Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP)
in Russia. The system has received new tools that will help to reduce the risk of loss of corporate data at lower cost, and
will also facilitate the management of cloud storage systems.
A new version of NetBackup 8.3, a key component of the EDSP, is now enhanced with solutions Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP) and CloudPoint.
Together, they improve application resiliency and infrastructure of the client, allow you to protect and recover data, no matter where they were located.
AMD announced about the release line Ryzen AMD 5000-series
for desktop PCs based on the architecture of Zen 3, the availability of which the sale is expected on 5 November around the world. These processors offer a 26% performance increase in games. In addition,
AMD has announced the return of the promos “Armed to conquer”, which will be effective from 5 November to 31 December 2020. Customers who purchase participating processors AMD
for desktop PCs will get a free copy of Far Cry 6 Standard Edition – PC digital after its release.
Canon Russia announced the release of an updated series of wide format printers ColorWave and PlotWave. These series include two models ColorWave (3600, 3800) and five models
monochrome printer PlotWave (3000, 3500, 5000, 5500 and 7500).
Nutanix has released a platform-independent solution to manage databases in the cloud 2.0 Era. Solution for database management from the Nutanix extended to cloud and
clusters. In addition, Nutanix has announced enhanced support for Postgres and SAP HANA, as well as a joint solution based on Era 2.0 with a leading technology company HCL.
Logistics
PONY EXPRESS opens warehouses in Germany and UK.
The operator of the PONY EXPRESS develops Mail Forwarding and launches two new warehouse full – cycle in Germany and the UK. Total object area in the UK is
2 000 sq. m, in Germany – 1 500 sq. m. Leased area will be used for shipping foreign online retailers. Operational capacity of the facility in Berlin will allow
to handle a day more than 6,000 shipments, in London – more than 8 000.
Today, under the direction of the company already leases a warehouse in the United States with an area of 3 000 sq. m. the object is processed online orders Amazon.com, eBay.com, 6pm.com, Carters.com, Walmart.com,
Zappos.com and other online stores and marketplaces.
In total, the service will provide access to more than 100 European online platforms and will allow you to make online orders Forever21.com, Yoox.com, Sportsdirect.com, MandMDirect.com,
Zalando.com, C&A (c-and-a.com), Ralph Lauren (ralphlauren.eu/de); Amazon(de/co.uk), EBay (de/co.uk), etc.
Finance
Classmates began to sell goods from AliExpress in the marketplace inside a social network…
Investments in software development in Russia fell short of industry needs by 60%. The volume of investments of Russian companies by the end of 2019 was at least ₽50
billion ($773 million). Calculations are made on the basis of a survey of software companies, RUSSOFT which was conducted in February-may 2020 within the framework of the study. Given the fact that not all companies
ready to reveal information about the involved the investment (especially for large transactions, which sometimes manages to find out only a few years after committing), we can assume that
indeed, the volume of investments exceeded ₽65 billion ($1 billion). This result seems more realistic, given that in 2020 the pandemic failed to conduct a full survey, ensuring
sufficient samples and relatively low error.
Raiffeisenbank launches a system for corporate business with SAP
This platform provides the integration of ERP system with all serving banks in a single interface. The product will allow corporate business to significantly reduce the load on
the company’s Treasury by eliminating the need to move from one Bank customer to another, which is important for companies with multiple service banks operating in different countries.
The decision will make it more transparent and quick query and compare conditions and receive services from different banks.
Raiffeisenbank has provided a platform for corporate business
implements financial services in SAP. This platform provides the integration of ERP system with all serving banks in a single interface. The product will allow corporate
business to significantly reduce the load on the Treasury of the company by eliminating the need to move from one Bank customer to another, which is important for companies that have multiple
servicing banks and working in different countries. The decision will make it more transparent and quick query and compare conditions and receive services from different banks.
VTB has developed a special interface for ATM
designed to serve people with visual impairments. Can use it not only projects, but also customers of other banks.
In the implemented interface has all the necessary menu items, and the text is written in large white font on a black background. To switch to the mode for the visually impaired, you need to insert the card into the ATM and
the screen to enter the PIN code press the button to switch to a separate menu.
This will open a menu with the following options: “cash Withdrawals”, “cash”, “balance Inquiry”, “Inversion” and “shutdown”. If necessary, you can set a white background with black
font, to do this, go to “Inversion”.
“Sberbank insurance” began to insure smartphones subscribers of the operator Carmobile. Basic protection is already included in the tariff plans “Premier” and “Premier+” and requires no additional
payment. The majority of Russian employers (71%) in 2020 kept the size of the social package for employees, found Work.ru (included in the ecosystem BEAC), and NPF of Sberbank, interviewing more than
1000 managers and HR-Directors of Russian companies.
Clients of Sberbank will be able to be notified about the evacuation of cars in Moscow
Sberbank together with gku “administrator of the Moscow Parking space” has implemented a new service for informing of Muscovites and guests of the city about the fact of evacuation of the car – “Check
evacuation”.
Each user Sberbank Online can connect a free subscription to this service. In the event of evacuation of his car, the subscriber not only will promptly receive a PUSH notification about the incident, but
and you can find information about the violation to see the shortest route to a dedicated Parking lot and a car collection. In addition, the driver will be able online
to pay moving specsearch and the subsequent storage of the vehicle.
Payment terminals, developed and manufactured GC “Terminal Technology”, once again successfully passed the audit of MasterCard payment system. Electronics for transport and vending
model number Т2100 confirmed compliance with Terminal Quality Management (TQM).
The goal of the TQM program, developed and supported by MasterCard, is the constant maintenance of the quality of the payment terminals. Two hundred, two thousand and two hundred thousand shall be
the same quality as the first product that has been in-depth functional tests on the EMV standard.
The state
Ministry for digital development, communication and mass communications RF reports
now users of the web version of the Unified portal of public and municipal services can find information issued in their name qualified electronic signatures (CEP).
View information about issued on your name, cap can be in your account on the public Services in the “Settings and security”, where from the drop down menu select “Electronic signature”. In
this section contains details about the issued e-signature certification center, its serial number and validity period.
Telekom
Beeline informs about a significant expansion of network coverage in the Moscow metro. Now mobile Internet and voice communications available on the loaded branches of the Moscow metro
Ring, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Zamoskvoretskaya and Kaluzhsko-Riga. According to metro, the ridership of these 4 branches is 52% of the total traffic of the subway in a month.
At the moment 4G is available at all stations, tunnels and crossings of the Ring and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines. As well as almost all transit passengers at the Zamoskvoretsky and
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines, with the exception of a few tunnels where the work will be completed before the end of October 2020.
MTS has reported on the implementation of the project on transfer of it infrastructure to the cloud Utair provider #CloudMTS. The project uses the certified segment of the cloud which provides high
the safety and corresponds to the 152-FZ “On personal data”.
In the cloud MTS translated about 90% of the it infrastructure of Utair, including its subsidiaries and divisions throughout the country. In the cloud function as internal it systems and external client
resources. The project was implemented within three months.
Nexign completed migration of subscribers in all branches Yota
The company Nexign (included in “X holding”), announced the completion of a migration project
subscribers in all branches of the Telecom operator Yota on the latest release Nexign Network Monetisation Suite – solution for billing, generation of payments and policy management of quality of service in real-time.
Yota offers its customers packages of communication, customizable with up to the minute and gigabytes, and differentiated pay for different types of traffic. The available technological solution is not
meant horizontal scaling, therefore, the company was required scalable and flexible tool for policy and charging control within the network.
To improve the efficiency of their internal processes, Yota has selected a product Nexign Network Monetisation Suite, including solutions PCRF (Policy and Charging Rules Function), RCAF (RAN
congestion awareness function) and UDR (User Data Repository).
Tele2 scale environmental project “Melting” the whole of Russia.
To donate your old phone to recycling everyone is welcome in the salons of communication in St.-Petersburg and Leningrad region during the year. The collected phones will travel to the Corporation “Ecopolis”, which
brings together a complex of plants for the disposal of waste electronic equipment.
Beeline Business has completed work in the framework of the project
of connecting cities of the Far East with the point of exchange of Internet traffic in Japan. In this way, clients Beeline will increase the speed of access to foreign Internet resources.
The Department for work with operators and roaming with the support of colleagues from the technical unit implemented a large-scale project: provided data network Beeline in the Eastern part of the country
a private communication channel bandwidth of 10 GB/s, organized on the route Khabarovsk – Tokyo.
MTS reports on project implementation for JSC “NESK-elektroseti”.
MTS has developed and implemented on a cloud platform #CloudMTS an automated system for remote monitoring and collection of indications of electric metres. This allowed electric grid companies to save money
operational processes up to 30% of the costs. The project uses the certified segment of the cloud which provides high security and fits 152-FZ “On personal data”.
Retail
Wildberries turnover in 3rd quarter increased by 94% to 106.8 billion rubles.
(net turnover, with account of refunds), in pieces by 155% compared to the same period last year. Sales of Russian goods in units was 193%. In just nine
months 2020 turnover online retailer grew by 104% and reached 285,6 billion rubles, in units — 164%.
Classmates began to sell goods from AliExpress in the marketplace inside a social network. Social network Odnoklassniki has launched a private marketplace of goods, together with AliExpress Russia.
Users get access to more than 100 million new goods they can purchase without leaving the social network.
The user can make a purchase not only in goods, but also directly from your news feed or from a video card of the product. In addition, the marketplace OK shape personal
tape products for all users and buyers to share new products with friends and receive from them valuable advice.
X5 Retail Group, which manages retail chains “Pyaterochka”, “Perekrestok” and “Karusel”, runs a program of internal entrepreneurship for employees who are ready to create and
scale innovative projects. The program lasts for 14 weeks, it can take part employees of trade networks and X5. During operation of the internal accelerator X5 Idea Challenge
participants will work on their ideas, using techniques and tools for the development of products and unite in the project team. In the end the best teams will receive an allocated budget for product development,
the support of business experts and companies.
The program will involve up to 50 teams, whose ideas will choose the internal business customers and functional units of the X5 and trade networks. All participants will take an online course accelerated development
projects.
Integration
“LANIT-Integration” with the support Intel has developed and implemented a system for remote coordination of physicians at 39 clinics in Russia. The results of a successful pilot project in April in
the main coronavirus the centre of Moscow clinical hospital № 40 (“Kommunarka”) made it possible to scale the solution to other medical facilities. Intel is involved in this project in the context of its global initiatives –
Pandemic Response Technology Initiative.
Based technology solutions – ergonomic “smart glasses” equipped with a video camera and a small screen. They connect with other gadgets common information environment. Medical professional
wearing glasses, can from infectious Boxing with the patient to conduct online audio and video in the “clean zone”. Doctors from the “clean zone”, in turn, can give recommendations, pass
required documents – history, photos, etc. in real time.
Siemens will act as the integration partner for the project for the Volkswagen group
the establishment of an industry cloud platform Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. This solution will connect into a single network 122 production facilities around the world. The launch of this industrial clouds involved 11
vendors with the world name – in addition to Siemens, working group of ABB automation technologies, automotive supplier Dürr, producer AT Celonis, specialists in data storage
Teradata.
Distribution, Integration, retail
