Industry Findings: In Russia, recoverability planning has become tightly coupled with national data-control policies and the need to ensure continuity under constrained cross-border dependencies. A notable policy inflection arrived in Feb-2024 when national regulators issued updated guidance emphasising onshore fallback provisioning and documented recovery readiness for critical sectors. That guidance drove many large operators to rethink failover geography, increase local archival retention and implement structured rehearsal regimes that can be reported to domestic supervisors. Consequently, procurement behaviour now privileges suppliers with verified onshore capacity, strict access controls and audited restore sequences aligned to national regulatory expectations.
Industry Player Insights: Market playres influencing Russia include DataLine, Rostelecom, Selectel, and Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions etc. Competition focuses on who can supply sovereign recovery corridors with certified restore processes. Selectel expanded its managed-recovery suite in Aug-2024 to offer scripted rehearsal services and compliance-aligned retention tiers, improving enterprise confidence in scheduled restores. Rostelecom enhanced its data-residency and backup orchestration services in Nov-2024 to support large regulated clients seeking single-vendor accountability. These vendor initiatives push buyers toward integrated, onshore recovery solutions that combine local capacity, certified runbooks and demonstrable rehearsal outputs.