Business In Hi-Tech

The American company Comtech EF Data, a manufacturer of equipment for satellite communications, made Andrey Dmitriev a sales director in Russia and the CIS. At the same time, he received the same job position at Comtech Xicom Technology (this firm produces tube amplifiers for satellite communications). Both companies are part of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. with a headquarter in Melville (New York, USA) and haven’t been represented in Russia yet.

Huawei announced that in the near future Russian users will be able to use EMUI 10.1 – a new version of the operating system. OTA (Over the air) updates will be coming to smartphones within a few months, depending on the specific models.

Huawei and Honor announced the launch of new service offers for users of the Russian market. Starting from June 15, 2020, a premium service will be launched in six Huawei | Honor branded service centers and it will be available to owners of some flagship smartphones: Huawei Mate Xs, Huawei Mate 30 Pro, Huawei P40 and P30 series, the new Honor 30 smartphone series – Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro+ and other models.

Rostelecom-Solar, a subsidiary of Rostelecom, conducted a study that showed that about 80% of companies don’t follow the basic password protection rules. At the same time security analysts managed to get administrator privileges almost in every tested corporate network. This would allow a real cybercriminal to develop an attack that is highly likely to lead to the theft of financial funds or confidential information.

SAS specialists created Scientific Literature Search and Text Analysis, a free environment with visual text analysis capabilities that uses AI, machine learning, natural language processing, linguistic rules and complex modeling methods.

Lenta hypermarket chain and Korus consulting group of companies have developed an automated system to forecast demand for regular and promotional products. It is designed to improve the accuracy of inventory planning of the retail network, not to overload warehouses and reduce possible product losses. The pilot project was launched in 10 retail outlets.

The forecast of the situation at the Russian IT market due to the spread of coronavirus infection can be rewritten monthly or even weekly. At first some factors come into the foreground, then other once. Life puts everything in its place little by little.

Pantum announced that, according to the IDC report, the company reached the fourth place in terms of sales at the Russian laser printer market in 2019, thus becoming one of the largest brands of printer manufacturers in Russia.

In a survey conducted by Positive Technologies among IT and IS specialists, more than half of the respondents noted that due to the pandemic, remote access had to be urgently organized from scratch (11%) or urgently scaled, since it was implemented only for some employees (41%).

M1Cloud provided a forecast of how the crisis will affect the business and what consequences will be for the cloud market. Alexey Danilyants, CEO of M1Cloud (Stack Group), presented the forecast.