PRESS: Huawei enters Russian market of cloud services

MOSCOW, Feb 27 (PRIME) -- Chinese giant Huawei has entered the Russian market of cloud services by renting 500 racks in Moscow data centers to localize own data, including of a future launch of payment system Huawei Pay, and to develop services of other companies, business daily Kommersant reported on Wednesday.

An IT market source told the daily Huawei started renting out racks in three data centers owned by operators 3Data, IXcellerate, and DataPro. A Huawei spokesperson said it is deploying cloud platform Huawei Cloud in Russia in such a way.

Artur Pyarn, head for solutions of Huawei Cloud in Russia, said the project started in March 2018 with 80 racks to localize services, and now Huawei occupies already 500 racks. Huawei plans to expand its cloud size in 2019 and is considering presence in data processing centers in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg.

Huawei intends to become one of the three biggest players on the local market of cloud solutions in the coming three years.

IXcellerate Managing Director Dmitry Fokin said a contract to host Huawei infrastructure in the operator’s data centers is signed for several years and stipulates gradual installation: there were more than 200 racks at the beginning of 2019 and there will be 500 until the end of the year.

3Data General Director Ilya Khala said the number of Huawei’s racks in the operator’s centers could reach 1,000 units in a couple of years.

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