BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 9
By Ilkin Seyfaddini - Trend:
Selectel appreciates the potential of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and in the medium term we expect to see fast-growing cloud markets there, Chief Executive Officer of Russian cloud provider Selectel, Oleg Lyubimov told Trend in an interview.
As Lyubimov said, Uzbekistan has become the first point of international expansion of Selectel.
"The company also intends to enter the Belarusian market by the end of 2020," he said.
CEO also added that the company will continue to develop new markets, with the directions to be determined by a number of criteria, including the volume of gross regional product, level of urbanization, necessary telecommunications and engineering infrastructure.
"Before our launch in Uzbekistan, we launched several services of SaaS (Soft as a Service) category and in July this year - we launched the Selectel cloud platform. The platform's infrastructure is built on modern high-density equipment and does not require large server rooms to accommodate it. Therefore, we rented the necessary space in our partner data center in Tashkent. We built the node on our own equipment, directly connected to local telecom operators and traffic exchange points," he said.
Lyubimov said noted that this model allowed to deploy a full-fledged point of presence in Uzbekistan in a short time.
"We will invest up to $1 million in the development in the Uzbek market within three years. The coronavirus pandemic has led to great uncertainty in the markets. Therefore, now in Uzbekistan we are forming goals for the near future. In July 2020, we will launch Selectel cloud platform in Uzbekistan and this year we expect to reach operating profit," he stressed.
Selectel is an IT infrastructure provider. The company has a wide range of products: data center services, dedicated server rental, public clouds, private clouds, integration and administration services. More than 80 percent of the company's revenue comes from cloud infrastructure services.
"The developed product line opens wide opportunities for all types of clients. Big customers can create hybrid solutions of different complexity levels in a "single window". Startups can develop in the ecosystem of a single provider, starting with simple and affordable services, complementing them with more complex ones as they grow," Lyubimov said.
Selectel is one of the leading cloud providers in Russia (based in St. Petersburg), both in economic and technological terms. Selectel has been working with cloud services and data center services for over 10 years.
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