Yandex Blog

Today companies rely on cloud platforms to deliver their services around the world. For global companies, cloud platforms prove especially useful in navigating the challenges of launching in new countries.  We introduced Yandex.Cloud, our intelligent public cloud platform, to offer reliable solutions to local and international companies operating in the Russian market. 

We are thrilled to announce that we are building on that to offer even more opportunities for our customers.  Yandex.Cloud is teaming up with the NAVER Business Platform (NBP) to provide, develop, and promote cloud services in Russia and South Korea.  NBP is a global enterprise providing infrastructure, security, information processing, and cloud services from NAVER, one of South Korea’s leading tech companies. 

Together our services will help software companies and developers seamlessly expand into the Russian and South Korean markets. The partnership will enable NBP customers to quickly deploy their services in Russia on the Yandex.Cloud. Similarly, companies using Yandex.Cloud will be able to easily launch their digital products in South Korea on the NAVER Business Platform.  Customers who use the service will be fully compliant with local data storage regulations and have access to flexible customer service. Companies can get support directly from their "home" platform; Yandex.Cloud in Russia and NBP in South Korea.  

As part of the joint effort, Yandex.Cloud and NAVER Business Platform plan to also collaborate on data storage and data management technologies (including Yandex's proprietary database management system), internet security services, and online infrastructure technologies.

Companies can get started today by contacting customer support of the respective platforms. To learn more about Yandex.Cloud offerings, visit our website today!

Yandex is excited to announce it is ramping up its cloud platform initiative, Yandex.Cloud. Over the last year we have been exploring and experimenting with a cloud initiative that would combine our network of state-of-the-art data centers across Western Europe and Russia, our developer talent, and our deep expertise in machine learning and data mining to provide businesses a high-performance cloud computing platform. Today we are excited to take the next step and further expand on the Yandex.Cloud vision.

As more and more businesses migrate their services to the cloud, cloud-computing technologies are becoming an indispensable part of the enterprise. In the Russian market, the demand for cloud services is growing but there are few high-quality cloud providers serving local businesses. Yandex sees an opportunity to build a cloud solution powered by machine learning that will address this issue locally before we expand our offering globally. 

“Yandex is uniquely positioned to develop a best-in-class cloud computing solution that meets the technological and business needs of enterprises today,” said Yandex CTO Mikhail Parakhin. “We have taken the time to understand the needs of enterprise customers and now we are putting the right infrastructure in place to build a cloud computing solution that delivers against these needs.”

Heading the new division is Yan Leshinsky a seasoned engineering leader who brings a wealth of world-class cloud computing expertise and specialization to Yandex. Prior to joining Yandex, Yan managed development teams at Salesforce, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Yan’s leadership will accelerate Yandex’s initial cloud experiments towards a highly developed solution on the cloud market.

“There are a number of things that attracted me to Yandex and this role. Yandex has access to an amazing pool of math and engineering talent in Russia, which feeds the high amount of intellectual capital at the company,” said Yan. “Yandex also has an organizational and technological framework centered on the customer. That combination of developer talent and customer focus sets Yandex apart and creates a great atmosphere to build out the Yandex.Cloud initiative.”

Yan’s appointment as the head of Yandex.Cloud is another example of Yandex’s commitment to best-in-class excellence, following Misha Bilenko’s hiring in February to head our Machine Intelligence and Research division. Over the next year, Yan will be working to further develop the Yandex.Cloud vision as well as build out the Yandex.Cloud team. While Yandex initially plans to focus Yandex.Cloud for the local market, we hope to broaden our reach to businesses across globe in the future.