According to the results of work for six months of 2016, Stack Group keeps the high rate of cloud services volume growth. It is forecast that by the end of 2016, the growth rate shall increase 45%. In 2015, the share of proceeds from virtualization services grew by more than 8.3 in comparison with 2014 and accounted for 155.5 million rubles. The share of cloud services reached 15% in the the total volume of revenue of the company.
The most demanded cloud services include the following: Infrastructure-as-a-Service—57%, Storage-as-a-Service—31%, Desktop-as-a-Service—9%, other services—3%. By the results of 2016, we expect growth of demand for Storage-as-a-Service due to acceptance on 6 July 2016 of Federal Law No. 374-ФЗ “On the Introduction of Amendments to Federal Law ‘On the Counteraction of Terrorism’ and to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation with Regard to Establishing Additional Measures Designed to Counteract Terrorism and Promote Public Safety.
"We rapidly develop the area of cloud services within our business as we see that future belongs to cloud technologies including storage of archive information in large volumes. We annually invest in development of infrastructure in general and expansion of cloud storage in particular and introduce the latest innovations to reduce the cost of solutions for the clients. Moreover, we can guarantee reliability and availability of Stack Group cloud as it is based in a highly reliable component base and long-term experience of building the most complicated infrastructure projects", commented Alexey Danilyants, General Director of Stack Group.
Many Russian and also foreign companies use cloud services of Stack Group to place main and standby IT systems. The cloud portfolio structure by client areas: 44%—banks and financial organisations, 18%—logistics and transport, 13%—wholesale and retail, 8%—communications, 5%—oil and producing companies, 4%—manufacturing, 3%—construction, 1%—state sector and 4%—other.
The cloud portfolio structure by client scale: large enterprises—46%, medium-sized business—31%, small enterprises—21%, micro-enterprises—2%.