Review IT Weekly (08.06 – 14.06.2020)Gennady Belas | 14.06.2020
Distribution
“Marvel-Distribution” has signed an agreement with Russian developer of solutions for content filtering and protection against network threats SkyDNS.
All decisions SkyDNS are completely domestic development, and technology underlying the products and services included in the Unified register AT the Ministry of communications of the Russian Federation. It
allows you to apply them to budgetary institutions and state-owned companies.
Cloud services and software solutions SkyDNS is designed for educational institutions, SMB-companies, authorities, providers and individuals. Among the most popular products of the vendor:
SkyDNS.School SkyDNS.Business SkyDNS.Wi-Fi.
GK MONT and company, “ROBIN”,
Russian developer platform for building software robots and chat bots for automating business processes, has signed a distribution agreement.
Under the agreement, the company will work on implementation projects for implementation of the RPA solutions ROBIN on the Russian market. ROBIN RPA — Russian platform for robotics business processes
the application of artificial intelligence (included in the Unified national registry).
“Marvel-Distribution” has become the only wide-profile distributor in Russia, having platinum status producer software products from Micro Focus. The British company assigned
the higher the status of the distributor at the end of last fiscal year. “Marvel-Distribution” has partnered with Micro Focus for three years, from the moment the British company bought part of the business
software development at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Company Micro Focus is developing tools for building, operation, protection and data analysis at the enterprise. Among the most popular products Micro Focus – Data Protector, the solution for
backup and data recovery.
Vendors
Map service 2GIS becomes part of the ecosystem of the savings Bank
Sberbank has signed binding documents on investment in the development and acquisition of controlling interest 2GIS — the leading Russian company in the development of digital maps and guides of cities
providing geographic information and hyperlocal services nearly 50 million users (MAU) in Russia, CIS and far abroad.
The deal, which also involved OOO “О2О holding” (a joint venture of Sberbank and Mail.ru Group in the field of food and transport), Sberbank’s share is 72%, the proportion of О2О — 3%, the founders and
management will retain 25% stake in the company. Investment funds Baring Vostok and Global RTP will capital 2GIS. Evaluation of 100% shares of the company for the purposes of the transaction amounted to 14.3 billion
RUB
Aruba, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, introduced Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform), a cloud-based platform artificial intelligence technology that predicts and solves problems at the network edge before
as they arise. Aruba ESP is an automated, comprehensive platform, which is built on the basis of AIOps (artificial intelligence to control it) and implements the model of “zero
trust” (Zero Trust) to ensure network security. At the core of this platform is a unified architecture for local area networks (LANs), data centers, branch networks and remote
jobs.
ABB, together with HPE working to reduce the energy consumption of supercomputers. Supercomputers Cray, the company HP uses a special ABB solution for power supply on the basis of
the DC system of high voltage, which allows to reduce the usage of copper in 14 times. Another benefit of using DC high voltage in the area of ecology and
efficiency – significant reduction of power losses – up to 95%. The solution enabled the network also allows the power system to increase or decrease the power depending on
computational load, providing maximum performance at very low computational load, and full load system.
New products
Company AMD has announced that NVIDIA DGX A100,
the third generation will become the high performance computing system using AMD EPYC second generation. Providing a performance of 5 petaflops. AI, architecture NVIDIA DGX
The A100 allows the business to accelerate a variety of tasks with the use of artificial intelligence in areas such as data Analytics, training, and logical conclusions.
Company IVK developed a complete desktop workspace office employee.
This solution on a USB flash drive that includes software products produced by CPI: certified OS “Viola 8 SP”, means of cryptographic protection of information (CIPF) “CPI Crypto” and a set of application
ACCORDING to the daily work of the distribution. In agreement with the customer on a flash drive can be optionally installed application software from a Single register of Russian programs compatible
running “Alt 8″SP.
Skills (skills) for voice assistant Mary from Mail.ru Group can now create everyone. On a single platform for developers Vkontakte will be able to offer new
skill, which will be available to all users of the voice assistant in the application and in the smart column Capsule.
Arab company Comera Tech released videomessenger on the basis of TeamSpirit.im VideoMost SDK from SPIRIT.
In the UAE, the government strictly regulates the use of applications for voice, video, and popular WhatsApp, FaceTime, Skype and Telegram, there are not only formally prohibited, but really
blocked. Local Arab company received approval from the local regulator and have developed an application for group video calling available to users within the country and
calls abroad.
The results of the activities
Assessment of the Group “M. Video-Eldorado”, the sale of smartphones in may
amounted to 39.2 billion rubles and grew by 3% compared to may of last year, in real terms, the smartphone market reached 2.4 million units, at the level of last year. In June, the smartphone market keeps
a positive trend. Sales of “M. Video-Eldorado” several times above the market in may, sales of smart phones in the two networks rose 10% in cash terms and by 19% in volume relative to
last year, online sales grew by almost 300%.
IDC: first quarter 2020 on the Russian server market
According to IDC EMEA Quarterly Server Tracker, in the first quarter of 2020 the Russian market was delivered 30 767 servers of all types for a total of $231,16 million, compared with
the same period last year, the number of servers delivered grew by 27.6%, whereas the volume of deliveries in money terms increased by 34.9%.
Quarterly deliveries of standard servers are x86 architecture took 99,7% in quantitative terms. In monetary terms, the x86 servers accounted share at 92.6%, showing an increase of 34.1% compared to the 1st
quarter of 2019. Shipments of RISC-systems has increased both in quantitative and monetary terms by 5.6% and 46,9%, respectively, compared to the same period of 2019.
For the quarter, the top three suppliers included server standard x86 architecture, Hewlett Packard Enterprise retains a leading position in the segment of server solutions on the number
delivered equipment units, followed by Lenovo and Dell Technologies. These vendors have demonstrated serious growth rates of supply and in terms of money.
“In the 1st quarter, the market showed good positive momentum. The corporate segment continued investment in infrastructure development. There was a steady demand for high-performance systems.
Large companies of almost all sectors continue to invest in the modernization of infrastructure and implementing new services”, – said Mikhail Lebedev, Manager of the research programme
the enterprise market, IDC in Russia and CIS.
Information security
“Rostelecom-solar” has released a new version of the gateway web security Solar webProxy 3.3, which employs a fully prednestrovya policies content filtering Internet traffic for
banks. The policy provides protection organizations in accordance with the requirements of Fincert Bank of Russia and a number of guiding FZ, standards and regulations in the information security field for financial institutions.
In finished filter policy for banks realized the automatic acquisition of indicators of compromise – file attributes malware from the ballot Fincert. At specified intervals
Solar web Proxy accesses the platform of the Bank of Russia on the handling of incidents to find the newly received data about malicious resources and files. New attributes are uploaded into the system for
use in politics and are automatically updated in the existing rules.
Finance
Moscow credit Bank (ICB) started to issue digital debit cards.
To order any card available in packages of card services “Best”, “Premium” and “Exclusive”. The release and activation is carried out instantly in the mobile application and does not require an office visit
Bank.
Diasoft entered the top 5 global providers of IT solutions for the financial industry and got the status of Major Player (“Key player”) according to the annual report of the analytical Agency
Forrester. The company not only became the only vendor from Russia in the report, but also significantly improved its position in the ranking, confirming the growth of the business in 2019.
VTB expects that the share of spending on maintenance and development of specialists of IT-divisions of the total IT budget will exceed 50% by 2022. This year VTB plans to increase
the number of IT departments by 20% to almost 5,400 people, the group now employs around 400 IT professionals in the quarter.
Only VTB currently employs some 4,500 IT professionals. The Bank plans to increase spending on the digitization and the development of this area. In the strategy of VTB laid
the increase in the share related IT costs from 15% to 19% by 2022.
In late may, VTB launched a set of paid internships for young IT professionals, the Bank also attracts employees with specialized recruiters across all channels of the credit institution: collection
summary on the recommendations from employees, including long — term without the existence of open vacancies is Friends&Family. Also has a new recruitment tool through the view code which
wrote candidate — HR-start-UPS.
Education and training
North-West Institute of management of Ranepa officially included in the employees of the technical Secretariat admissions virtual Advisor with artificial intelligence. New
specialist was given the name Victor. He will accompany students at all stages of admission to the University.
The state
Entered into force GOST R 58833-2020 “Protection of information. Identification and authentication. General provisions”…
ASKON signed a Memorandum of cooperation with the state Corporation “Roscosmos”
The agreement reflects the determination of the state Corporation on the implementation of innovative approaches and management principles full
the life cycle of the product. Together with the Ascona will form a comprehensive system of requirements for a universal industry PLM solution in the conditions of geographically distributed data processing.
Tele2 and the government of the Pskov region signed an agreement
on cooperation in the field of digitalization of economy and development of telecommunication infrastructure of the region. The operator expressed willingness to participate in projects for the development of smart city
and the creation of digital services.
Among the potential points of interaction of the regional government and the mobile operator is considered the project of digitalization of urban “Smart city”. It includes the development of technology
the Internet of things (NB-IoT) and automation projects for the needs of agriculture.
The holding company Ruselectronics of state Corporation rostec, will be installed at the ambulance stations of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous district automated dispatch system. The deployment of the new solution
will allow more than 30% reduction in response time to calls.
When you call, the system determines the caller’s location, finds the nearest ambulance, analyzes the presence of the necessary equipment and medicines. Then automatically
assigned to the brigade on the challenge and builds the shortest route. All information about the call is transferred to the ambulance without operator intervention.
Telekom
In the salons of Tele2 became available in payment of services of “Rostelecom” without a fee.
The service is implemented on the basis of payment gateways QIWI. You can pay the Internet and TV, online cinema Wink, home or mobile phone. The payment was made under the personal account for the Internet or
TV and phone number for home phone services or cellular connection. Crediting of funds occurs instantly.
Tele2 and GUP “PILARN”, specializing in the prevention and elimination of oil spills, tested the LTE-450 in the Gulf of Finland. Icebreaker “Nevskaya Zastava”
provided mobile Internet at a frequency of 450 MHz using the Skylink equipment. The ship ensures environmental safety on the Neva river and in the waters of the Eastern part of the Gulf of Finland – Neva
lip. Due to the characteristics of LTE technology in the range of 450 MHz – range and high penetrating power – the icebreaker will remain in touch with your Bank without delay of the signal.
MTS has announced the launch of virtual numbers that allow you to make calls and send SMS messages without a SIM card. To connect the virtual number you can own in app MTS connect.
Virtual number — a number in the usual format that you can use for incoming and outgoing calls and also for receiving and sending SMS. The virtual room will not need a new
SIM card is it requires any active SIM card MTS application MTS connect and Internet connection through Wi-Fi or through the mobile network.
Ericsson will supply MTS for radio-relay lines the modernization and construction of
new converged transport networks in Central, far Eastern, Siberian and southern Federal districts.
It will be equipment with a distributed architecture for radio relay communication of the new generation MINI-LINK 6000-series, as well as outdoor modular solution MINI-LINK 6366. Radio relay link (RRL) —
one of the main technologies for connecting base stations.
Service
Cross Technologies, a system integrator in the field of information technology and information security, become a certified service partner Huawei. Company
awarded the status of Certified Service Partner CSP Level Three-Star in the direction of Data Communication.
This allows the company Cross Technologies as the official service partner to provide maintenance and support to provide services for the design and commissioning works
its customers based on products from Huawei.
The company employs a team of specialists who received certification Huawei Certified Network Professional-Routing&Switching (HCNP certifications, HCIP).
Retail
The number of suppliers in may at Wildberries increased from 30 to 35 thousand,
over 19 thousand of which are individual entrepreneurs. Doubled to 1 thousand people per month increased the number of self-employed, selling their products at Wildberries.
Integration
At seven factories Mars (one of the largest manufacturers in the field of food and animal feed) in Russia has introduced a system of warehouse management SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP
EWM). The project was implemented by TeamIdeа.
The team’s task was to increase the capacity of the it system responsible for warehouse logistics and the speed of processing orders. Testing SAP EWM took place simultaneously on all 7 companies
in parallel with the development and configuration of the system, and then in stages started each of the plants. In the future we plan to deploy the system in three factories of the company in Russia, and
also in the distribution center. Mars noted that the project in Russia is a good example for using SAP EWM to the Mars businesses in other countries. On
today, the project to implement SAP EWM in Latin America.
LANIT and Ctrl2GO will implement predictive Analytics solutions in industrial plants
The companies agreed to jointly promote and implement predictive Analytics solutions for the engineering, oil and gas, energy and other industries on the basis of
Clover products.
Intelligent platform Clover is intended for processing and analysis of large industrial data. It includes a library of rules and MX models (MathExperience). The company’s specialists
simulate the behavior of objects based on descriptions of the physics of production and technological processes and to develop engineering models that describe the behavior of the equipment, even in cases
the lack of data from sensors.
BELTEL participated in the integration project of PJSC “Rostelecom”,
which was created a single infrastructure. The purpose of the PJSC “Rostelecom” the project was a transition to a converged solution enabling unified communications.
An important task was the continuity of the existing equipment and subscriber devices. As solution was chosen the architecture based on Avaya Aura, was developed by company BELTEL.
The requirement of continuity was performed thanks to a special program at the Avaya preferential migration of legacy PBXs, which provides cost saving both in terms of licensed capacity and
further use more of the existing hub equipment and telephones in the workplace.
AMD and Amazon Web Services announcedthat EC2 instance C5a, equipped with AMD processors that are available for use. Processors AMD EPYC second generation C5a provides
the users of cloud service AWS new opportunities to solve problems with intensive computational load with best performance and cheap price.
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