In fact, even at the inception of the IT cloud concept, analysts noted that the main problems in implementing this idea would be associated not so much with increasing the capacity of computing resources and Internet bandwidth, but with the need to solve various types of security problems for this effective, but also very complex model of IT use.
Of course, that "there will be nothing but clouds" did not come true. Clouds have taken an important place in the IT world, but they have certainly become only a part of IT. But another idea of the future, which was taken quite seriously ten years ago, has also not come true. At that time, it seemed that clouds and the Internet would allow the creation of a global IT space in which existing regional and state borders would simply disappear. This did not happen, moreover, perhaps, it was new zealand mobile database because of the emergence of powerful communication channels that issues of cross-border relations, primarily in legal and legislative terms, became even more pressing. It was in the middle of the last decade that the issue of personal data protection arose and requirements for their storage, for example, for the location of information storage facilities, began to become stricter. And, as it turned out, despite the growth of Internet speed, it is better to have computing power closer to users.
In short, the thesis: "You don't need to think about where exactly the cloud resources are" - turned out to be wrong or, at least, premature, because today it is important for customers to know not only who provides cloud services, but also where the used cloud capacities are located (both in terms of remoteness, and, what is more important, in terms of their jurisdiction). In any case, we see this very well in Russia, which today looks more like a completely autonomous region rather than a part of the global cloud market. Many domestic customers need IT clouds to be located in our country and, preferably, provided by Russian suppliers.
itWeek: In connection with the advent of clouds, analysts have been talking for many years about a possible change in the composition of IT players, in particular about the transition of a number of large IT customers to the status of IT suppliers, as happened with Amazon in its time. What can be said about this trend?
D.K.: It turned out to be quite realistic, including in Russia. As we can see, the forecasts that Amazon would not be able to hold on to the top spot for long and would be pushed into the background by classic IT companies did not come true. In our country, outside companies also quickly emerged among the leading cloud providers — mobile operators, Sberbank, Yandex, that is, those who had formed serious distributed computing resources and then began to use the accumulated experience for external IT services, expanding their presence in the market as IT suppliers.