What is the "Cloud of Siberia" and "energy of the future"?

The Modern world is increasingly difficult to imagine without the cloud. They are all plugged into our lives and apply to all spheres of human activity. The other day in Irkutsk was a critical step in the development of this industry in Russia.

May 25, in Irkutsk, on the territory of Technopark of the Irkutsk national research technical University was held the fourth session of the «energy of the future», which including were representatives of the editorial Board Hi-News.ru. The session was held in the framework of the joint educational project of EN+ Group and the corporate University «the EuroSibEnergo».

Date of the session was chosen. The conference was timed to the opening of the data center on the territory of Novo-Irkutsk thermal power station. The new data center should be the first in a network of such centres, which EN+ is developing on the territory of Irkutsk region.

The session Itself was held in the format of lectures by the invited speakers. Businessmen, experts in the field of computer technology, various experts and representatives of company Huawei, which is an active cooperation while working on the project «Clouds of Siberia», spoke about the Internet of things, cloud technology and computer threats in the modern world.

As a presenter of the session was Ilya Kabanov, who is known as the chief editor of scientific-popular almanac metkere.com and organizer of educational events for entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other target audiences.

After greeting the participants and shared photos started the session itself. First, a farewell speech was made by General Director of Vostsibugol company Eugene Pasternak, who spoke about how cloud technologies are coming to the world of business. Despite the fact that the coal industry is very conservative, the speaker gave an example of how automatiseret mining equipment and as a result of this minimized loss and downtime. However, as he noted, a significant leap did not happen for decades, and just five years. In conclusion of his speech, Eugene Pasternak announced is not new, but good point. He said that if the leader does not know their it professionals, it is good professionals, because they're like doctors, you go only when something is bad. A decline in the number of applications of these providers indicates an increase in the quality and reliability of cloud services.

Among other interesting speeches, it is possible to note a brief excursion into the world of hackers from analyst EN+ Group Anton Rusakova and analysis of prospects for the digitalization of business and the Director of the Institute for applied data analysis, ZAO "Deloitte and Touche CIS" Alexey Minin.

Anton Petrushkin, including being a developer of applications for the oil trading like a real expert in the field of information technology, spoke about the threats of cloud computing from the point of view of data security, but noted that the protection technology is also not standing still, that allows to minimize risks of loss of or interception of information. Also in his speech he plain language talked about how the interception data when connected via Wi-Fi network and how to protect yourself from it.

Towards the end of the session, Alexey Minin spoke about how the universal digitalization of business allows to open new horizons and to significantly improve client search. For anybody not a secret that in business one of the most important resources is information. In the first place information about their customers on which is focused the main activity. Including the understanding of customers play an important role as it's the cloud. Alexei also gave examples of companies that at the time, casually applied to the study of market and needs of your target audience. One such example was the Kodak, which was one of the leaders among manufacturers of products for photo enthusiasts. But at the time, management did not take seriously the emerging technology of digital photography and did not significantly change the business model. What the position now is Kodak — we all know.

In addition to visiting speakers and video message of the Director General of the company Biolink Technologies Evgeny Chereshnev, which is famous for being implanted under the skin of his left hand biochip for investigation of issues of privacy in the world of the Internet of things, the word was given to guests who asked questions on a variety of topics, sometimes even personal. And after the end of the session, the speakers chose the best questions and gave their authors a tour of the new datacenter. The invitations themselves were decorated very creatively, and those who remember what a 5.25-inch diskette, it is appreciated. It is in the form of this recording medium was made of the invitation.

However, despite the interesting digressions, the main theme was still the development of cloud technologies in the Irkutsk region. In addition, at the end of the session her guests can have a little chat with the speakers and ask them interesting questions. It is worth noting that among those wishing to ask questions were not only professional journalists and guest bloggers, and students, which, in spite of the heat tests and examinations, there were many.

It's Nice that such events are held for young generation. And no matter what his goal is in the future. It can be various fields of business, science or production. And it might be just consumer use of modern technology, but it is difficult to argue that the future of cloud technologies, instant access to information and prompt processing of this information.