Rostelecom. Is it a cloud?

The “cloud” is probably the hottest topic of recent years, and not only small startups, but also huge telecommunications monsters are striving to go there.

One of the latest examples was the launch of the “cloud” from Rostelecom.
And this news should rejoice thousands of consumers in the regions, but everything turned out to be not so simple.

If you look closely, it turns out that one of Rostelecom’s many subsidiaries, RTComm, deployed Paralles Automation and decided that they are now a true cloud provider.

And if you look at the presence of SaaS, then yes as many as 3! running and 2 announced services is a good start for ... a hosting provider. Okay, SaaS, we will count it out.
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But when the term “IaaS” in the company means shared hosting, virtual servers, and Dedik, to be frankly not funny. In my opinion, such a freehand attraction for the ears looks ridiculous, especially since the company has not announced any plans to launch true IaaS services.

On the one hand, attempts to move to the cloud of such monsters are encouraging, the industry is developing, but now they are moving more and more sideways.

By the way, as opposed to Rostelecom, you can put the Inoventica group of companies that not only have a developed infrastructure of data centers and their own communication channels throughout Russia, but also offer truly cloud services thanks to the partnership with Parking.ru. Among the services there is a full-fledged IaaS, building a Private cloud, a lot of SaaS services, and even data protection for 152 FZ on hosting.

A separate conversation is deserved by the policy of working with developers, who are not forced to pack everything into the notorious APS, and much is not being packaged in it, because you can transfer applications to the cloud in various ways, the whole ISV go2CLOUD deals with this

ps This post is written by me as a private person and reflects my personal opinion. It is not the official position of the company in which I work.