As Safe Host responds to the current COVID-19 virus, the health and wellbeing of our staff, customers and suppliers continues to be our top priority.
We are taking every measure possible by monitoring every new development and adapting our response on a daily basis. It is critical at this time that we work together, as a community, and do our part by social distancing in order to alleviate the burden on healthcare workers who are working tirelessly to overcome these unique challenges in this crisis. Our focus is to provide a safe environment for the Safe Host family as well as making sure that our customers’ operations continue to function as smoothly as possible during this period of instability. We have daily calls put in place to review updates and share information to one another in all departments so that we can support our customers with the most up to date and relevant advice. Our data centres are still open and remain accessible operating 24/7 for our customers.
Health & Safety Measures
For all health & safety measures we have implemented the actions according to the recommendations of the World Health Organisation and the Swiss Confederation. These include stringent social distancing as well as hygiene measures in order to prevent the spread of the disease. Safe Host has planned for a reduction in capacity with a large proportion of staff working from home. The key priority is to balance the safety of our staff with availability, the emphasis being to limit routes for infection spread. Precautions are being taking within each site including stringent decontamination measures.
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The strong growth in data, mega-data and Big Data is forcing companies to adapt to an increasingly digital world to maintain and develop their competitiveness. In an environment that is ever more demanding regarding data protection, the need for highly secure hosting and storage services is becoming a priority.
To better meet the needs of its customers, Cisel announces its partnership with Safe Host, in order to enhance the performance and security of its hosting services. The company has chosen to entrust the leader of the French-speaking colocation market for the hosting of its cloud infrastructure. Cisel will move from its current hosting site in Matran to Safe Host’s largest data center in Gland. The company wants to take advantage of this change to develop new cloud offerings and increase the quality of its services. Another goal is to minimize the carbon footprint of its customers' IT systems. According to Managing Director Roch-Neirey, "The Safe Host partnership represents the first milestone of ambitious projects and seals the foundation of a portfolio of new, highly secure, scalable and flexible cloud services. "
ABOUT CISEL
With a turnover of more than 19 million francs, CISEL is a Swiss service provider active in IT outsourcing and ERP SAP systems integration for SMEs. With more than 80 employees, CISEL is the partner of industrial customers. The range of services offered by CISEL covers the entire IT needs of its customers. Resolutely customer-oriented, CISEL is surrounded by market leaders to offer the best of technology
Safe Host, Switzerland’s leading data center colocation company, and InterCloud, the pioneer in dedicated cloud access solutions, announce a partnership allowing enterprises native access to over 140 cloud destinations.
Enterprises that require to keep their data stored in Switzerland but need their workloads to run across multiple cloud providers can now connect to 140 cloud destinations, including major SaaS, PaaS & IaaS providers, directly from Safe Host’s data centers.
As a pioneer in dedicated cloud access solutions, InterCloud supports global organizations such as Schneider Electric and Veolia in their cloud delivery process through complete end-to-end managed services from end users to cloud infrastructures.
Visibility, control and security are the key pillars that Safe Host and InterCloud customers’ will benefit from, in order to leverage their multi cloud strategy.
The Safe Host / InterCloud partnership features strong commitments like low latency access & guaranteed service level agreements to enterprises moving their applications to cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Alibaba, Google, IBM Cloud and Salesforce. This provides customers with increased flexibility and reduces the cost ownership of running workloads from Switzerland. With a single connection, customers can run across multiple cloud platforms, optimize, and shape their connectivity to their cloud providers.
This partnership re-enforces Safe Host’s data centers as the go-to colocation facility for companies wishing to store their data in Switzerland but leverage their cloud providers globally.
ABOUT INTERCLOUD
InterCloud enables enterprises to fully control the global delivery of their cloud applications. InterCloud offers them a service-oriented platform to simplify and secure their access to any clouds. Through this platform designed for the cloud era, InterCloud helps enterprises solve security, performance and flexibility issues while leveraging multiple public clouds to support their business goals and stay ahead in their digital transformation.
Zayo, a global communications infrastructure services provider has partnered with Safe Host, Switzerland’s premier data centre provider to offer their customers a secure “Storage as a Service” solution to keep their data in Switzerland.
As companies worldwide face increasing data demands that outpace their abilities to react, Zayo’s Object-Based Storage offers them the ability to quickly deploy storage at the capacity needed and avoid having to store data in multiple clouds. With Zayo’s solution, customer data is encrypted and distributed geographically between Safe Host’s data centres in Switzerland using advanced algorithms to ensure maximum protection and 100% availability.
Zayo’s Object-Based Storage service provides companies with a cost effective, scalable solution for storing petabytes of data at the fraction of the price of traditional storage technologies. Unlike other solutions, with Zayo Object-Based Storage, there are no data transfer fees in or out while customer data traverses the Zayo network.
Customers can reduce costs further by accessing their stored data with public cloud providers using Zayo’s CloudLink service as an on-ramp. CloudLink provides direct, private network connectivity to major public cloud providers utilizing Zayo’s global fiber infrastructure.
ABOUT ZAYO
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) provides communications infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud infrastructure to the world’s leading businesses. Customers include wireless and wireline carriers, media and content companies and finance, healthcare and other large enterprises. Zayo’s 124,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. In addition to high-capacity dark fiber, wavelength, Ethernet and other connectivity solutions, Zayo offers colocation and cloud infrastructure in its carrier-neutral data centers. Zayo provides clients with flexible, customized solutions and self-service through Tranzact, an innovative online platform for managing and purchasing bandwidth and services. For more information, visit www.zayo.com.
For the eighth consecutive year, Switzerland has topped the Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, this impressive feat especially reflecting labour market efficiency, business sophistication, innovation, and technological readiness of the country’s economy, ever enhancing its reputation of being the most prosperous & secure business location in the world.
Thanks to Switzerland’s ownership of one of the world’s most fertile innovation ecosystems through the combination of a ‘very conducive policy environment and infrastructure, academic excellence, & an unmatched capacity to attract the best talent and large multinationals that are often the leaders in their sector’, Safe Host is able to benefit from the country’s incredible reputation for quality of business.
Ranking first in labour market efficiency, technological readiness, business sophistication and innovation means that Switzerland’s companies are able to deliver the utmost quality of service to their clients.
This report further emphasises the findings of the Data Centre Risk Index 2017 that placed Switzerland in 3rd position worldwide and 1st in terms of energy security.
Thus, the business environment In Switzerland enables Safe Host to thrive and perform excellently.
Learn more about the Global Competitiveness Report.
ABB provides utility, and industrial and commercial customers with safe, reliable and smart technologies for the distribution of electricity. It has become the provider of reliable and energy efficient medium voltage power for Safe Host’s Gland data centre in the canton of Vaud, the country’s largest carrier-neutral colocation facility with 14,400-m2 capacity.
Its solution is built on the air-insulated UniSec switchgear, which can be scaled easily to accommodate future expansion needs, always striving to maximise service continuity and energy savings.
About ABB:
ABB is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing more than a 125-year history of innovation, ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 132,000 employees.
Read more to learn what Bruno Melles, Managing Director of ABB’s medium voltage business, has to say about ABB’s solution for SH2.
This association promotes a numerical transformation at the national level, by putting forward Switzerland’s innovative strengths, as well as by promising to defend the information & communications technology sector’s interests within the public and political realms.
The Asut’s promise stems from a desire for the sector’s companies to rely on optimal political and regulatory framework conditions, for the orderly development of information and communications technology infrastructures.
This association acts in many ways:
Thanks to its membership in the innovative association, Safe Host confirms its commitment to top framework conditions.
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Switzerland & French-speaking Switzerland’s principal provider of data hosting services has opened Switzerland’s biggest data centre to date.
At the inaugurating event on 18th May 2017, some 800 curious attendees gathered to admire the grandeur of Safe Host’s new data centre. A colossal 14,400 square meters, the Gland data centre is Switzerland’s largest state-of-the art, carrier neutral colocation facility. Located in the heart of Europe, the site complements Safe Host’s Geneva and Avenches facilities, providing data hosting services to major multinationals since 2002.
This consequential launch attracted a plethora of journalists from numerous newspapers such as Le Temps, la Tribune de Genève, ICT Journal, 24H, l’Agefi, La Liberté, le Bilan, and many more.
The data centre denominated SH2 has a colocation facility of 14,400 sq. m with 40 MVA dual power feeds in order to meet the growing demand for companies to host their systems in Switzerland, where they benefit from the country’s abundant hydropower and its strong legal framework supporting data protection. All major telecom operators are present on site, providing low latency as well as local and international access. Storage space will be deployed in 2000 sq. m phases every 18 months.
During the event, Safe Host was pleased to welcome multiple officials including Mr. Gerald Cretegny, Mayor of Gland, as well as Mr. Fathi Derder, National Councillor and member of the Science and Education Committee, giving speeches on the innovative impact that the ultra-secure SH2 will have on the area and in Switzerland as a whole. The State Counsellor of the Canton of Vaud – Mr. Phillipe Leuba – closed the inauguration speeches.
Attendees had the opportunity of visiting server rooms through a virtual reality immersion into the heart of the data centre, as well as real life visits in the data centre’s basement that houses water tanks, generators and refrigeration units for energy optimisation. According to ICT Journal’s Yannick Chavanne, this was ‘a well-designed demo that was met with much success amongst the guests’.
Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), a subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM), today announced a partnership with Safe Host, a leading data center colocation provider in Switzerland. Safe Host’s customers now have direct access from its data centers in Switzerland to fast-growing digital markets across the Emerging Markets corridor through GCX’s global network infrastructure.
“The Swiss business ecosystem is undergoing significant transformation with the rise of digital economy, advances in technology convergence, as well as the rapidly growing tech-savvy population, and it is mission critical to have a scalable and reliable infrastructure to capitalize on the next wave of globalization,” said Mark Russell, Managing Director, GCX International.
“Our partnership with Safe Host enables Swiss Enterprises to tap business opportunities in the fast-growing emerging markets over our Global Network as well as leading Cloud providers via GCX CLOUD X platform.”
This partnership will provide Safe Host with enhanced coverage and increased diversity options to be more competitive, especially along the emerging markets corridor, which further solidifies its position as a truly global colocation provider. Enterprises in Switzerland now have access to many of these telecommunications hubs across the globe, from the developed markets in the U.S. and Europe to the key emerging markets in the Middle East and Asia, including India and China.
“Today, data center facilities are becoming increasingly critical in not only hosting Cloud environments, but also providing the necessary access and connectivity into those platforms,” said Gérard Sikias, CEO of Safe Host. “Our partnership with GCX means that we can provide high-performance global reachinto our data centers, strengthening our ecosystem and supporting the digital strategy of our customers across multiple industries.”
The GCX Global Network is distinguished by its unmatched geographic coverage and ability to provide both subsea and terrestrial connectivity to major telecommunications hubs, fully supported by two redundant global network operation centers. The network connects many of these telecommunications hubs across the globe, from the developed markets in the U.S. and Europe to the key emerging markets in the Middle East and Asia, including India and China.
About Global Cloud Xchange
Global Cloud Xchange (GCX),a subsidiary of Reliance Communications, offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions customized for carriers, enterprises and new media companies. GCX owns the world’s largest private undersea cable system spanning more than 68,000 route kms which, seamlessly integrated with Reliance Communications’ 200,000 route kms of domestic optic fiber backbone, provides a robust Global Service Delivery Platform. With connections to 40 key business markets worldwide spanning Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East, GCX delivers Managed Services to more than 160 countries and offer extensive VPLS-enabled Ethernet network capabilities globally. GCX is equipped to support businesses through the deployment of next generation Enterprise solutions across its Cloud Delivery Networks.
Safe Host and China Telecom Europe are pleased to announce an interconnection partnership allowing Safe Host's customers fast and easy access to China and the Far East for their IT systems from Safe Host’s Swiss data centres.
The interconnection provides Safe Host's customers a direct link to China Telecom’s 144 million fixed line, 107 million broadband and 186 million mobile subscribers. It gives companies the ability to direct-connect their IT racks to the richest Chinese content base as ChinaNet hosts 80% of Chinese content.
Safe Host’s customers can now connect their IT racks directly to the fastest growing consumer market in the world while also accessing China Telecom’s Asia network that spans all major Asian capitals. IT systems at Safe Host’s data centres are now able to cache content in China whilst keeping their critical data stored in Switzerland. With these dedicated routes between Safe Host’s data centres and the China Telecom Global footprint, latency and costs normally associated with accessing users in China and Asia from Switzerland are greatly reduced.
Sino-Swiss economic relations have accelerated over the past years. In 2007, China and Switzerland signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the intensification of high-level political consultations and the further deepening of bilateral relations. Today, China is Switzerland's primary trading partner in Asia. The entry into force of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between China and Switzerland on July 1, 2014 have further deepened the economic relations between the two countries. For China it is also the first FTA to come into effect with a continental European country, and with one of the top 20 world economies. It enhances the benefits Switzerland already offers Chinese companies looking to operate in the European market. Switzerland lies at the heart of Europe but yet remains independent helping to make it the most competitive business location in the world according to the ‘Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017’.
Switzerland has topped the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitive Index for the last eight consecutive years and has one of the world’s best innovation ecosystems. This, coupled with an outward looking trade policy and unmatched transport, communication and data centre infrastructure has made the country an attractive destination for corporate, UN and NGO headquarters. To this end, numerous Chinese companies including Sinopec, China Construction Bank and Huawei have located their European HQs in Switzerland.
About China Telecom
China Telecom Corporation Limited is one of the world’s largest and leading integrated information service operators, providing wireline & mobile telecommunications services, Internet access services, information services and other value-added telecommunications services.
As its global assets, China Telecom constructs and operates land cables with direct cross-border access and over 40 international submarine cables that connect more than 72 different countries and regions. The total international transmission capacity reaches up to 9000G.
About Safe Host
Safe Host is a leading data centre colocation company in Switzerland delivering scalable and secure data centre services through its data centre facilities in the country. With the ability to scale up to 56MW across three Swiss facilities, the company provides the flexibility required by todays’ IT loads. Safe Host’s data centres are ISO 9001, ISO 27001 certified, fed from renewable power sources and conform to regulatory standards required by all major industry verticals.
The company owns, runs and operates data centres in Geneva, Gland (Vaud) and Avenches (near Bern) and has been the preferred data centre provider for multinationals and United Nations agencies.
Swiss IT Business Geneva is the largest professional meeting dedicated to software and IT solutions in French-speaking Switzerland. This year, Safe Host will be attending the event on booth IT67 alongside members of the Vigiswiss association. We will also participate in the conference "Data Sovereignty, Economic and Political Challenges" which will take place on Tuesday, April 24 at 2PM. During this round table moderated by Mr. Thierry Vial, you will have the opportunity to meet the members and partners of the Vigiswiss association, as well as Mrs. Solange Ghernaouti who received the “2018 Cyber Book” price. At the end of the conference, a contest will take place on the stand Vigiswiss (IT67) and will allow you to win the book "Cybercrime, new weapons of power" signed by Mrs. Ghernaouti.
Come visit us on booth IT67! If you want to make an appointment with our team, do not hesitate to contact us marketing@safehost.com
For more information - https://www.salon-sitb.ch/
Mobile World Congress is the largest mobile phone industry show in the world. Organized by GSMA, the event takes place in Barcelona, capital of mobile. The show will bring together executives, operators, vendors, terminal manufacturers and content producers from all around the world. All industry leaders will gather, network, showcase and exchange ideas.
For the fourth time in a row, Safe Host will participate to the largest event in the mobile world. An opportunity to promote the security and privacy that Switzerland offers for mobile data hosting!
Come visit us on booth 8.1E68, Hall 8.1! If you wish to organize a meeting with our team, let us know by sending us a mail on marketing@safehost.com!
For more information - https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
PROTECT YOUR DATA, PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS
For the inauguration of the new Safe Host Data Centre in Avenches, we are pleased to invite you to an afternoon of conferences on the 14th April 2016 in Avenches to understand how Switzerland has become the place to be for data protection. You will discover why more and more companies like Silent Circle have decided to move their head office to Switzerland.
Registration and Programme - http://www.sustainable-data.ch/
Mobile World Congress is the world's largest gathering for the mobile industry, organised by GSMA, & held in the Mobile World Capital Barcelona.
Come and visit us on stand 8.0G20, Hall 8!
For more information - https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
Global Energy (GE) began in 2012 as a major conference and expo for trading, shipping and support services in the oil industry. GE has recently expanded its coverage to cover power, gas and renewables. Since the start, Global Energy has been supported by major trading firms in Geneva, the Swiss Trading and Shipping Association and the Propeller Club of Geneva. Every year, up to 500 delegates have attended Global Energy.
This year, Safe Host will be exhibiting at GE in Geneva. Come and visit us!
President Wilson
47 Quai Wilson
1211 Geneva
For more information - http://www.globalenergygeneva.com/
Cloud Expo Europe is the world's biggest, best attended and multi-award winning cloud event. It is UK's largest technology event and the world's largest independent cloud event, featuring a major exhibition with 400+ suppliers and a compelling conference of 300 global expert speakers. The event welcome thousands of visitors each year.
For the third time this year, Safe Host will be attending Cloud Expo Europe in London. Come and visit us on stand 452!
For more information - http://www.cloudexpoeurope.com/welcome
Medical technology is one of the most dynamic industries in Switzerland. It generates CHF 13 billion in sales, counts 3’700 large groups, SMEs and start-ups, and directly or indirectly employs nearly 100’000 people.
Though not generally well known to the general public, the many companies operating in this sector are often at the forefront of innovation and seek opportunities to develop and export their know-how.
http://www.bioalps.org/ephj2015
Please come and visit our stand on May 7th 2015 during the 17th Journées Solution Bancaires at BFM in Geneva!
It is with pleasure that we will present you our services in details and will arrange individual visits of our data centre.
Among our current customers, we host several banking companies. We are highly expert in this specific sector.
Do not hesitate to contact us for any further information!
http://www.unicore.ch/Donnees-generales
Safe Host has the pleasure to announce that we will be attending Cloud Expo Europe, 11th & 12th March 2015 at stand 752, the Excel London conference center. It is EMEA’s leading event for senior IT decision makers in client side organisations and the cloud industry.
As a major data center collocation partner to the growing cloud industry we will be emphasizing the attractiveness of hosting IT systems in our Swiss facility. This includes a stable political environment, stable power availability and strong data protection.
Cloud Expo Europe 2015 includes a world-class conference program involving over 300 world-class speakers and dozens of compelling case studies.
