Vice-President, RSPP Sergei Mitenkov took part in a WEF session on the digital economy

4 September 2019 , the Vice-President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs Sergey Mitenkov took part in the session of the Eastern economic forum "infrastructure for the data economy: new opportunities for cooperation between the Far East and the Pacific rim".

The experts discussed the competitive advantages of the Russian market of data storage and processing, improvement of the attractiveness of this market for foreign companies, new investment opportunities and the processing and storage of data in the context of digitization of the economy.

Sergey Mitenkov noted that the RSPP is actively engaged in digital transformation and digitization. "We have a series of committees and focal points on the figure. It is obvious that private businesses need the push to digitization, because it is an irreversible process, which involved all the company, understanding that the development of digitalization provides a competitive advantage in the market", - said Vice-President of the Union.

He reported on the WEF signing of agreement on cooperation between RSPP and the company "Hyundai Motor CIS". President of RSPP Alexander Shokhin and President of the regional headquarters of Hyundai Motor in Russia and the CIS countries, the Dream Kings the meeting also discussed the issues of digitalization. Sergey Mitenkov cited other examples of the development of digitization in companies of various profiles.

"The data are growing rapidly, they need to process, store. In this Russian business supports the Ministry digital development of the Russian Federation", - summed up the Vice-President of the Union.

Managing partner, iKS-Consulting , Tatiana Tolmacheva estimated future development of data Centers (DPC) in the territory of the Russian Federation.

"Adopted large-scale program of development of digital economy in the Russian Federation, around 20 billion will flow annually for the development of services and platforms. Need some serious computing resources. If you are using the old infrastructure high receiving poor results. Definitely need some funds to redirect to the commercial market," she said.

According to her, we need to encourage the digitization of business processes and successes in this area are: 2014 level electronic document management in organizations has increased to 80%. While Tolmacheva noted that in the regions there is the sluggish level of investment of entrepreneurs in the construction of data centers due to low margins, so they need help.

The President of the business group to work with operators Huawei in Eurasia Zhao lei believes that the need to attend to the question of data storage in Russia, as their volume is increasing. He said that sooner or later all devices will be merged into a single network.

"By 2024, the number of Russian data will occupy 5% of the global total. The question before us, where we will store data of a digital economy. According to our forecast, in 5 years 100% of enterprises will use cloud technology. This is a huge data flow," said lei.

He added that the company is a big challenge to address the issue of transferring large amounts of data on large Russian distances.

The Deputy Director of the Department of coordination and implementation of projects on digital economy Minister Alexei Galygin compared the data in the digital economy with "new oil": oil "turns" in broadband, rigs – in instruments and technology to collect and transmit data refineries in the data center, and gasoline – in services for the end user, provided at the end of "production", transfer, storage and processing of data. As operation of the engine depends on the quality of petrol, so the economy depends on the quality of services continued the analogy Alex Galuzin.

According to him, economic data need proper infrastructure, including processing centers and data storage. Government policy for the development of this industry is aimed at eliminating administrative and technological barriers, promote the import substitution of equipment and software, information security and increase the competitiveness of Russian companies on the international market.

According to forecasts of the Ministry of communications of Russia, the digital transformation in a number of industries, primarily in construction, transport, energy, municipal economy, in a short time will inevitably lead to a pressing need to store, process and analyze data. To increase needs in the development of data centers will lead and interest of Telecom operators in developing their own infrastructure. It is expected that by 2024, the Russian market physical and virtual infrastructure data center will grow in 3 times, to more than 300 billion rubles, and the total number of commissioned commercial stands closer to 100 thousand.