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DE NOVO LAUNCHES PROTECTED CLOUD FOR STATE-RUN INSTITUTIONS, ENTERPRISES

19 August , 2016  

KYIV. Aug 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) – De Novo IT company has launched a first in Ukraine protected cloud – G-Cloud designed for the use by Ukrainian state-run institutions and enterprises, the company reported on Wednesday.

“This cloud guarantees high availability of resources and protection of data. It is certified under public standards. We are ready to present a reliable and protected site for e-government and other state-run IT projects,” the press service reported, citing Director General Maksym Aheyev.

The company said that G-Cloud is a protected cloud with good fail-safe features and protection from external threats. It provides IaaS class services.

“New methods for certifying cloud infrastructures under public standards applied to sophisticated information protection systems have been created to certify G-Cloud,” the company said.

G-Cloud opens new prospects for growth of the cloud market in Ukraine and relaxes the certification for suppliers of cloud services.

The company recalled that in the past two years the State Agency for E-Government in Ukraine, Economic Development and Trade Ministry, Odesa Regional Administration, Lviv City Council, Kyiv Metropoliten, Ukrspyrt and other state-run enterprises used their cloud services in the past two years.

The investors in the company are KM Core holding, Intel Capital investment fund and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group.