Cloud4Y cloud provider will provide cloud services to businesses for free during the COVID-19 pandemic

Corporate cloud provider Cloud4Y has launched a program to support businesses struggling with the coronavirus pandemic. The company offers its cloud platform for remote work for up to two months free of charge.

At the moment, Cloud4Y is one of the leading leaders in Russia, which creates a secure and high-tech cloud service.

"Since the beginning of March, the demand for remote work organization solutions, as well as hybrid cloud solutions for scaling the physical infrastructure has increased by 2.5 times. In some companies, the move online has increased the burden on existing IT equipment and has led to the need to look for ways to scale infrastructure. There are also business segments that have proven to be technically unprepared for the transition to remote mode of operation. Cloud4Y offers a 100% reimbursement of the cost of cloud platform services, "- said CEO Nikolai Fokin.

He clarified that at the end of the grace period, the customer will be able to continue using all services on favorable terms, the transition conditions are negotiated individually. It's possible to refuse using part or all consumed services at any time and without any special conditions.

Cloud4Y experts render a wide range of services for establishing remote work for any business: remote connection to the desks of employees, services for collaborative work on tasks, projects and documents for effective internal communication, convenient video conferencing service, built-in security mechanisms and data leakage control. Turnaround time is from one hour to one day. At the same time, subscription to cloud services does not require purchase of new expensive equipment or expanding the staff of IT-engineers.

In this case the Cloud4Y protected circuit is certified for compliance with the requirements for the state information systems of class K1-K3, personal data security level 1-4, unauthorized access security class 1G. "Compliance allows any confidential information, including trade secrets, personal data and government information systems (GIS) data, to be processed in the cloud," Fokin explained.

"Realizing the importance of supporting people and businesses in a challenging situation, the Cloud4Y team is doing everything possible to ensure that the digitalization of business processes is as painless as possible and without significant associated costs. We are confident that the current situation can be used for business development. The main thing is to choose the right tools and start using them in time, "- concluded the CEO of the company.

On cloud security

A cloud provider has to offer something more than the average level of IT infrastructure security to be able to entrust confidential information and migrate critical business processes to its platform.

Cloud services of Cloud4Y corporate provider are developed taking into account Russian and international information security requirements. The company is one of the first in Russia, has received certificates of conformity of the platform to the international standards ISO / IEC 27017 and ISO / IEC 27018, and also confirmed that its platform meets the requirements of GOST R ISO / IEC 27013-2014. The certificates were issued based on the results of an audit conducted by an international expert team in early 2020.

The provider provides its clients with ample opportunities to apply data encryption policies (including certified GOST VPN encryption algorithms), access control, password management, user activity audit, information leakage prevention and malware protection.

Why Cloud?

Cloud solutions have become a hot market because of their immense potential and almost unlimited computing power that can meet the needs of any, even the largest companies. Moreover, cloud technology has several important advantages:

• The rental (or subscription) scheme does not force a business to invest in new hardware and expand its IT department (which is quite costly, especially for small and medium-sized businesses). Subscriptions can be canceled at any time without any obligation to the cloud provider;
• no matter how large a pool of requested resources may be, you pay only for what you actually use (pay-as-you-go principle);
• The cloud provider is responsible for the availability of services and data of the company at all times. The business does not need to employ qualified personnel capable of properly organizing remote work in compliance with security requirements;
• data transfer is organized in accordance with security requirements (including the use of GOST certified security algorithms);
• there are many other cloud solutions that will increase the efficiency of remote work.