Enterprise Cloud

The Enterprise Cloud product is based on industry standard VMware technology. Safe Swiss Cloud uses the VMware Cloud Director on top of VMware to provide its customers with a web based graphical user interface (GUI) which allows them to manage their cloud resources in an intuitive way:

• Virtual LANs (internal networks)
• Servers (VMs)
• Storage volumes (100% redundant, clustered SSD)
• Snapshots
• VPNs (site to site as well as SSL)
• Firewalls
• Access management for the infrastructure management portal
• and lots more

Most enterprise customers are already familiar with VMware. For customers with existing VMware infrastructure, it is easy to transfer workloads (VMs) from one VMware installation to another. Customers can even treat their Enterprise Cloud as an extension of their in house (on premise) infrastructure. 

Enterprise Cloud based on VMware is characterised by a very high degree of redundancy in:

• Server hardware
• Network switches
• Storage media (SSDs) and storage servers
• Internet connections 
• Backups (Veeam)
• Electricity supply
• Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
• Diesel generators that allow the data centres to keep operating for weeks in case of a total power failure

Enterprise Cloud provides its customers a self service backup portal, from where they can setup and manage their backups and restores using the industry leading Veeam software. Backups are always made to a different data center from the one where the VMs are running and the backups are mirrored to at least one additional data centre.  

The data centre, server and network redundancy as well as the backups to multiple data centres, provide an excellent foundation for business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning, a must have for enterprise customers, especially those providing “system relevant” services like hospitals, banks etc.