VK Cloud launches localized cloud platform in Kazakhstan
The platform combines more than 20 pre-configured IaaS and PaaS services. With their help business can store data or deploy IT infrastructure in a few minutes, connect modern tools for development and work with big data, provide information backup and recovery.
In Kazakhstan, VK Cloud has opened a legal entity - VK Tech Kazakhstan LLP.
"Cloud services are becoming a standard for design and development of digital products, allowing to speed up bringing solutions to market and provide a competitive advantage. They solve the whole range of business tasks: from creating a flexible IT infrastructure and ensuring cybersecurity to storing and processing data and working with ML models," comments Pavel Gontarev, Managing Director of VK Tech. - The VK Cloud platform is deployed in the local data center of our partner QazCloud in Kazakhstan. It provides increased security of infrastructure for business in the republic and compliance with all necessary requirements when developing digital products in the region".
VK Cloud services are administered by cloud platform specialists. Thus, companies will be able to focus on business development, reduce expenses on hiring IT specialists and purchasing of equipment.
"QazCloud data center in Astana, built on green technologies, with a localized VK Cloud platform will help IT specialists in Kazakhstan get all the tools, all the capabilities of the latest IT solutions - on the territory of Kazakhstan without the need for cross-border data transfer," - said QazCloud CEO Kasym Yesergepov.
The VK Cloud platform is adapted to the market of Kazakhstan. Location in the local data center ensures compliance with the law "On Personal Data", as well as high speed of services. Payment for cloud services will be made in tenge, and invoices will be generated according to the Pay-as-you-go model, only for those capacities and tools that were used.
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