Sberbank Signs Cloud Platform Partnership with Huawei

Sberbank Group’s cloud platform, SberCloud, has agreed on a strategic partnership with tech giant Huawei that will provide the Chinese company access to SberCloud.Advanced for Russian and foreign users, Interfax reported Tuesday. 

“The uniqueness of the SberCloud.Advanced products on the Russian market is its focus on supporting native cloud applications based on micro-services 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,” says SberCloud’s CEO Yevgeny Kolbin. 

“The target audience of SberCloud is the B2B market, from the large business of small startups,” he noted.

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. Thereby, 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 the necessary services integrated with each other in one company.