Visiting CeBIT Australia 2012

In 2002 the world’s largest trade show and ICT event known as CeBIT opened a branch in Australia and thus, the first CeBIT Australia was held.

CeBIT Australia 2012 — main entrance

This year Sibers’ employees attended the CeBIT Australia event personally, participating in the conference program and visiting the Exhibition floor. Vlad Labetsky, Sibers Outsourcing Consultant and VP of the Australian office, together with Alexey Burlakov, Sibers Senior Software Architect, met all the 30,000 people who visited CeBIT face to face (hehe!)

Alexey Burlakov and Vlad Labetsky at Darling Harbour, Sydney

During the three day event visitors took part in Workshops, The Opening Ceremony, and the ICT Celebration Dinner.

CeBIT Australia 2012 — lunch time

CeBIT Australia 2012 — Sibers at exhibition floor

CeBIT Australia 2012 — ICT Celebration Dinner

Vlad and Alexey visited CeBIT during their month long stay in Australia, where they meet Sibers’ customers and partners. Our representatives will continue to be in Sydney and Melbourne, available for meetings, through the 17th of June.

Welcoming Sydney, Australia

Sibers Kyrgyz office: 1 Anniversary

While Russian power grows with Siberia, as our famous scientist Michael Lomonosov said, Sibers’ power grows with our Bishkek office, which was opened a year ago. It was quite a fruitful year, and Sibers’ top management represented by Yuriy Bannov and Alex Shpak visited this mountainous land to celebrate the event.

Sibers delegation arrived in Bishkek soon after the Kyrgyz revolution and was satisfied to notice that the riots did not affect our office business processes. The results of them were reviewed in a warm and comfortable, hospitable atmosphere. Bishkek guys were curious to learn first-hand Sibers’ favorite practices and traditions as well as the reasons for opening such a distant from Akademgorodok office and our expectations. Meeting included visiting some cafes and restaurants, and as a result the office museum got its first exhibit, a chair. (Sibers offices have a collection of artifacts that are very dear to our hearts due to different circumstances.)

Yuriy Bannov, Sibers CEO and Eugeniya Zelenovskaya, Head of Sibers Kyrgyz branch

Of course, going to a mountainous land cannot go without a trip to the mountains. Bishkek is a very picturesque place famous for its nature treasures. The destination chosen was a ski base Oruu-Sie, located 37km away from the city at the level of 2100m above the sea level. The city, especially with its night illumination, looks just awesome from there!

Having treated themselves to large amounts of pilav and barbeque, taken a lot of nice pictures and visited a sauna with beer, everybody was delighted to realize that Sibers traditions of celebration were imported to Bishkek quite safely and without malfunctions. Our executives were also glad to congratulate our Bishkek colleagues with good progress, which is supported by high grades on Elance, positive balance and numerous praises from our customers.

Sibers CEO Yuriy Bannov in Kyrgyz mountains

A good start is worth such efforts.

Microsoft Certified Partner

Sibers has updated its status to a Microsoft certified partner, which is supported by a nice glass tablet from Microsoft saying “for your commitment to creating and delivering innovative customer solutions and services based on Microsoft technologies, we proudly recognize your dedication to excellence” and signed by Steven A.Ballmer and Allison L.Watson.

Such a pleasant present arrived on the day of Key-Soft birthday (editor note: long time ago Sibers was named Key-Soft) and marks the efforts of a whole Sibers team of .NET developers on creating a wide range of high-quality applications. We congratulate our .NET department and its team leaders Alexey Malinovsky and Roman Sitnikov with the achievement. The certificate resulted from our Microsoft team obtaining 23 certificates of 8 types on different technologies:

• PRO: Designing and Developing Enterprise Applications using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5;
• PRO: Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5;
• TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation Application Development;
• TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ADO.NET Application Development;
• TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Forms Application Development;
• TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development;
• TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Windows-based Client;
• TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation.

With the official message complete, let me disclose some confidential information. It turned out that the award package from Microsoft was a bit buggy :) Not that we expected it, but there was an awkward feeling in the air. There were two glass tablets in the package and one of them was through the looking glass, i.e. mirror-printed — yes, you should understand it literally. So, the congratulatory text looked like this:

tfosorciM

rentrap deifitreC

“evitavonni gnireviled dna gnitaerc ot tnemtimmoc ruoy roF
secivres dna snoitulos remotsuc
ezingocer ylduorp ew ,seigolonhcet tfosorciM no desab
.ecnellecxe ot noitacided ruoy”

Nevertheless, the fact of possessing such a rarity makes us happy. This tablet is unique among thousands analogous (we hope, Microsoft doesn’t produce this bug with every other tablet), and due to its uniqueness our company has its own spirit!

Hooray! HireRussians has been an Elance provider for over 9 years!

Find clients. Do your best. Get paid.

HireRussians registered on Elance.com in late Summer 2001. Our founder and CEO, Yuriy Bannov, was also our first sales person. Our first job came in September 2001, titled “Network Speed and Testing Application,” and was developed with Java. In that era of table-layout websites, the customized services of HireRussians were not very popular, and we employed just 7 enthusiasts, graduates from one of the top-rated Russian universities. Thus, we posed a classical startup team with strong academic backgrounds and intense aspirations. Back then, we had 3-4 projects in development simultaneously and were armed mostly with Java and PHP technologies. We may have been a fledgling team on Elance, but that team was comprised of industry veterans with vast knowledge and a drive to succeed.

HireRussians grew up at a very productive time in a rapidly developing, high-tech world. Our main competitors in those days came from India and domestic outsourcing providers. As years went by, the number of projects awarded to HireRussians through Elance steadily increased; challenges – and the technology used to approach them – become more sophisticated and enriched. Simultaneously, our team became more skilled and expansive. We employed agile-minded project managers and graceful customer care representatives in order to improve our customer relations.

Maintaining Relationships

The past 9 years have been marked by a flurry of inspiration. Today, HireRussians is a big company with a stable position in offshore outsourcing market. Our staff boasts more than 120 professionals, 50 projects permanently in simultaneous progress, and hundreds of grateful customers from all over the world. Our expertise extends to ASP.Net, iPhone and Android mobile technologies, and C++ for Unix, Mac and Windows.

HireRussians maintains its place in the upper echelons of the Elance rankings due to our tireless commitment to fostering long-term client relationships, delivering the highest quality work, and offering competitive bids. Our programmers are constantly expanding their repertoire of expertise, have received certifications from the world’s foremost software development agencies, and have been recognized by the IAOP Global Outsourcing 100. We believe that the main factor in our success is the strong foundation of trusting relationships we’ve developed with our clients. Our friendly service and industry-leading professionals are “melting the ice” in Siberia; the only question now is…when can we meet YOU?

HireRussians Trademark Registered

Thanks to our lawyers, we have registered HIRERUSSIANS trademark with USPTO. We look forward to receiving the official certificate shortly.

Sibers is a registered trademark

With a new update of Sibers.com, you can notice a ® sign next to the Sibers logo. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has registered Sibers name and logo as a trademark, which makes us feel a bit more important. :) The registered trademark provides additional protection for our customers: if you see the word “Sibers” anywhere, you can be sure that it’s us. This doesn’t include GAZ Siber, though, a new vehicle of GAZ and Chrysler.

The new update also includes some minor fixes and additions, like Portfolio link was moved to the left to indicate preferences of site visitors.

Upcoming Holidays

Due to national holidays, Sibers software development offices in Russia will be closed on February, 25 and March, 10. We’ll tell you how we celebrated the holidays later in the blog.

New Office in Downtown

We are pleased to announce opening of our first office in Novosibirsk city. Located in downtown, the new office is able to accommodate about 30 Sibersers who live in the city. Close connections to main bus, tram, trolley and subway lines make it possible to avoid traffic jams.

Eye-Fi Selects Sibers To Develop Wireless Photo Sharing Service

November 19, 2007 – Novosibirsk, Russia, – Sibers Group LTD, a Russia-based software outsourcing company, announces that its development center in Novosibirsk has been chosen by Eye-Fi, Inc. to develop the Eye-Fi Service, the first photo sharing service based on Wi-Fi technology. The service works with the Eye-Fi Card, a standard-sized SD memory card that is designed to universalize and simplify the process of uploading pictures from users’ digital cameras to the PC or Internet. With just an active Wi-Fi access point and no wires, the Eye-Fi card automatically transfers all photos on the card to one of many popular photo sharing and printing services, blogs and social networking sites. First beta-testers and customers have already confirmed that this new gadget will certainly overthrow the whole concept of digital freedom and mobility.

“Working on such innovation in digital world as Eye-Fi, you should be ready to take up a challenge,” said Serge Markov, Sibers CEO. “Our startup-optimized technological and business processes were tested to support time-dependent know-how development. Of course, as any IT geeks, our developers were excited about realization of a project that will make our lives easier. Moreover, working on innovative projects, we become even more flexible and open-minded.”

Eye-Fi first contacted Sibers through Elance, a popular online marketplace for offshore developers. Initially, the collaboration began with investigating possible ways to handle Wi-Fi in Microsoft Windows. Once the concept was proved, Eye-Fi and Sibers started working on a service enabling the SD card to upload to Flickr and Wal-Mart.com. Lately, the list of photo sharing, printing, blogging and social networking websites was supplemented with Phanfare, Shutterfly, Picasa Web Albums, Fotki, SmugMug, Facebook, dotPhoto, Gallery2, Kodak Gallery, Photobucket, Vox, and TypePad.

“It was a difficult decision to go offshore for the development of the Eye-Fi Service,” said Kim Gustafson, Web Services and Applications Lead at Eye-Fi. “We were afraid of misunderstandings, missed deadlines, and out-of-sync development environments. Now we can say with certainty that we made the right decision. Sibers helped turn our vision into reality. While there are always stumbling blocks working with offshore companies, the advantages far outweighed the disadvantages, especially having a 24 hour workday cycle with daily turnarounds.”

Eye-Fi Card first announced by Eye-Fi, Inc. at the end of October, 2007. For further information see www.eye.fi.

More information about Sibers offshore development centers is available at www.sibers.com.

About Sibers
Sibers is an offshore software development center founded in 1998 in Russia. As a leader in this industry Sibers provides safe outsourcing services, secure processes, and top quality results for business. Sibers’ specialists have great experience of working with almost all major platforms, programming languages and technologies and can develop almost any types of solutions. For additional information please visit www.sibers.com.

About Eye-Fi
Founded in 2005, the company is dedicated to building products and services that help consumers navigate, nurture and share their visual memories. Eye-Fi’s patent-pending technology works with Wi-Fi networks to automatically send photos from a digital camera to online, in-home and retail destinations. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company’s investors include Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. More information is available at www.eye.fi.

We Clear The Bar

HireRussians became number 1 in the total Elance rating of software outsourcing service providers.

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List of Elance providers