SberCloud, the cloud platform of Sberbank Group, and Huawei have formed a strategic partnership to provide cloud services for Russian businesses, extending the reach of Russia’s largest bank into the country’s digital economy.
SberCloud. Advanced clients, which Sberbank hopes will range from large businesses to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups, will have access to 37 new cloud services, and will represent a first on the Russian market because all services will be fully integrated into one system.
This is the first partnership on this scale between Russian and international cloud providers. The cloud platform will help to introduce a new line of basic (IaaS) and high-level (PaaS) cloud services on the Russian market.
SberCloud clients will be able to create IT infrastructure of any complexity in the cloud, work with big data clusters, manage cloud containerization, and automatically create, scale and manage apps.
SberCloud.Advanced users will have access to 37 cloud services. The launch of the new platform provides opportunities that were previously inaccessible to both cloud app developers and their users. The product is unique on the Russian market, as it is fully functional. SberCloud clients will get all necessary services integrated with each other in one company.
SberCloud.Advanced meets the highest business standards, functions under the Russian legislation and is placed in SberCloud infrastructure. The platform is focused on large, medium-sized and small businesses, as well as small startups.
Yevgeny Kolbin, SberCloud CEO said:
“The uniqueness of the SberCloud.Advanced product on the Russian market is its focus on supporting native cloud applications based on the microservices architecture. This exclusive offer on the market consists of interrelated cloud service, complementing each other, which provides clients with a unified convenient approach of using these services, diversity of most updated IT platforms, as well as a wide product range and most advanced IaaS/PaaS solutions on the Russian market. The target audience of SberCloud is the B2B market, from large business of small startups.”
Commenting on the partnership, Wang Wei, CEO, Huawei Cloud in Russia added,
“We highly appreciate cooperation with Sberbank which is now one of leading companies in Russia which introduce innovation solutions. This partnership is really important on the Russian cloud service market. Huawei provides SberCloud with not only most progressive comprehensive cloud technology, but also transfer international expertise. We are sure that businesspersons will appreciate this solution and it will become a great contribution to the digital transformation of Russia.”
