The Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Russian electronics manufacturers are discussing new mechanisms to limit their parallel imports. Among the proposals is to prohibit the import of any server and data storage system (SDS), without restricting the import of its components: boards, processors, etc.
In this way, companies hope to retain suppliers and at the same time receive guarantees of demand for investment in new production, writes Kommersant.
Sber intends to spend $158 million on servers and storage systems from Huawei, Dell and NetApp. Heavy consumers tend to work through to the end with the team on which they initially built their IT infrastructure.
Customers are sure that high-end equipment will not be produced in Russia anyway, and in connection with this, the scheme will ultimately come down to “re-gluing nameplates.”
- Since January, the share of spending on Russian products of the total investments of companies and government agencies in IT has amounted to 53%. A year earlier, it was only around 45%. In the public sector, import substitution goes faster than that of businessmen.
- Russian retailers may be required to pre-install national operating systems (OS) on computers and laptops supplied to the Russian Federation. The relevant document is currently being developed by the Ministry of Digital Development. Retailers have warned that labor costs for vendors will affect the price of devices for consumers.
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Source: RB
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