Leading the pack
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all within a secure environment .” This transformation towards a cloud service solutions provider has taken place over the last four years and following the decision to move into this direction , the company sought out ISO certifications to cement its position in the market .
But as with any transformation , the decision was not made without reason . One major factor in this was the role of the customer , with Stürchler noting that customers are switching from capital expenditure to operating expense .
“ Customers don ’ t want to invest in hardware , they just want to consume IT ,” he says .
More and more small to medium sized companies are switching operating models to become more like e-commerce businesses . This in turn means these companies are seeking ICT operations that can run 24 hours a day , seven days a week .
This presents a major problem for these companies – operating costs .
“ The costs for this kind of operation is too high , so companies are turning towards infrastructure partners and cloud services . This allows them to have a guaranteed service-level agreement and they can be safe in the knowledge that their e-commerce business is operating to those 24 / 7 requirements ,” Stürchler says .
Leading the pack
Acceleris defines itself on its cloud infrastructure NUBIQ , going as far as calling it as one of the most up to date cloud infrastructures in Switzerland . This is due to the fact that it is fully software defined . This means that Acceleris has software defined storage , network and compute power in an “ open spec and open defined ” open stack infrastructure .
To put that into context , there are currently three open stack infrastructures across Switzerland and Acceleris is one of them .
“ With open spec and open defined infrastructure , we are able to provide cloud infrastructure on an incredibly large scale ,” says Stürchler .
An advantage of such an infrastructure over say , Amazon or Azure , is that it allows Acceleris to provide services , backup / restore , security and , if necessary ,
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