More than a cloud. How Pro-Data builds IT infrastructure for the business of the future

Evgeny Vishnevskiy, Founder and CEO of Pro-Data LinkedIn 

About My Journey

My career in IT began in the early 2000s, when the internet in Uzbekistan operated over telephone lines via dial-up. I progressed from a sales representative to a management role in one of the country’s first internet companies, then worked at a digital television operator, a national telecommunications provider, and participated in launching products at Uzbekistan’s first digital bank.

All these roles were technology-related, and each provided insight into how infrastructure impacts business development. Gradually, it became clear that the market needed not just connectivity and hardware, but comprehensive cloud services that remove limitations and accelerate innovation. This realization led me to the idea of creating Pro-Data. 

About Strategic CEO Leadership Amid Technological Change

For me, the role of CEO in a high-tech company is not just about management, but also about maintaining a strategic course, understanding product architecture, and sensing market trends three to five years ahead. During the launch phase of Pro-Data, the main challenge was not building infrastructure, but changing consumer perception: in 2021, most companies in Uzbekistan trusted only their on-premise hardware, so we had to literally shape a culture of consuming cloud solutions, proving that they could be more reliable and flexible than physical servers. At the same time, we had to build processes that allowed the company to scale in line with growing demand—without compromising on quality or SLAs. It was this balance—strategy, technological vision, and team management—that became the foundation of Pro-Data’s growth.

From the very beginning, I understood that trust in the corporate segment is built not on words, but on demonstrable reliability. For banks, FinTech, retailers, and e-commerce, downtime is not just a technical failure, but direct financial and reputational loss. Therefore, we designed our infrastructure from the start to withstand loads, errors, and external risks not in ideal conditions, but in real-world scenarios. This is why we house our equipment in Tier III data centers and obtain certifications under PCI DSS and ISO 27001 standards to ensure transparency and confirm reliability and security at the level of international requirements. For example, the average availability of Pro-Data platforms over the past year exceeded 99.982%. Today, as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan transition to local and hybrid clouds, reliability has become not an advantage, but a basic requirement. The challenges we started with have turned into our strengths. 

Expansion into Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is a natural next step for Pro-Data, because here digitalization is growing simultaneously with a shortage of local enterprise-grade cloud solutions. Businesses need low latency, data storage within the country, and reliable support along with first-class customer service—and we can meet these needs. Launching in Kazakhstan reduces companies’ dependence on foreign platforms and provides them with infrastructure that complies with local requirements. Over the next few years, we plan to expand our presence, strengthen the partner ecosystem, and establish a sustainable position as one of the key cloud providers in the region.

Cloud Services Market Trends in Central Asia

We clearly focus on the evolution of client tasks: increasing AI workloads, migration to microservices, and demands for high performance. Therefore, we are developing solutions that address practical scenarios: cloud platform and virtual servers for most tasks, Managed Kubernetes and load balancers for service stability and process automation, bare-metal and GPU server clusters for high-performance computing, as well as backup systems and S3-compatible object storage for reliable data management. This approach allows us to build infrastructure that supports business at every stage of growth.

Looking at market dynamics from a professional perspective, it becomes obvious: the migration of companies to the cloud is not a situational spike, but a logical development vector. According to Gartner, by 2028, the cloud will become the environment for hosting up to 75% of corporate workloads. And it’s not just about growing infrastructure capabilities—businesses are shifting to a model where flexibility, scalability, and deployment speed become critical factors.

As CEO of Pro-Data, I see the situation from the inside: companies that try the cloud model once tend to stay with it. In Central Asia, the numbers confirm the same picture: according to IKS Consulting, the market for infrastructure cloud services shows steady year-over-year growth of more than 60%, significantly outpacing global rates. The transition is driven by regulatory security requirements, rising equipment costs, logistical challenges, and growing demand for local solutions with low latency. This is no longer a market that is “catching up” with global trends—it is forming its own development dynamics.

At present, more than 300 clients use our services, including banks, payment systems, airlines, SaaS providers, and retail chains.

“More than just cloud” for us means infrastructure that goes beyond standard IaaS services. We create an environment where technology, expertise, and support work together, helping businesses grow, scale, and operate confidently across different countries.

Our clients receive not just resources, but a complete ecosystem: local architecture tailored to workloads, uncompromising reliability, security, flexibility, and ongoing support. This is a cloud that does not limit—but opens up new opportunities.