Kommersant learned about Sberbank exercises amid the threat of US sanctions

The government was concerned about reports of a possible ban on the EXPORT of electronics. During the technology exercise, Sber simulated the bank's disconnection from supporting foreign software vendors,

Sber held a technology exercise last week, during which it simulated the shutdown of the bank's IT infrastructure from the support of foreign software providers, including MICROSOFT, Oracle, Intel, Nvidia, VMware and SAP. This is reported by Kommersant, citing sources in the government and in the computer market. The bank is planning a large-scale purchase of servers and data storage systems, the newspaper writes.

According to the sources of the publication, the government was concerned about reports that the United States warned American chipmakers about a possible export ban on their products in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. REUTERS wrote about this on January 20.

The source of the newspaper said that the Russian authorities are considering possible scenarios in case of limiting the supply of microelectronics and disconnecting the country's enterprises from supporting foreign software.

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Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Promsvyazbank, Alfa-Bank and other large financial institutions did not answer questions from the publication about the past exercises. Nvidia did not comment on the situation, indicating that the company's activities are out of politics.