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Geneva- and Dubai-based private cloud computing supplier Penta was once again issued with a clean “no deviations noted” regulatory compliance report performed by independent auditors EY (Ernst & Young). In addition, EY also confirmed that Penta meets the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority’s (FINMA) requirements for outsourcing. Unlike usual compliance reports in the IT sector, […]

The setup used to mitigate the risk of IT downtime is called disaster recovery. It combines scheduled off-site backups, and failover systems to run the post-disaster environment directly from the backup. This sounds complicated, but there are really only two factors to consider to manage IT risk: data and time. In case of disaster, you can […]

Swiss private cloud provider Penta now offers the industry’s highest possible specifications in business continuity and disaster recovery with the completion of a year-long infrastructure project in the Tier-4 rated Lausanne data center. The Lausanne and central Geneva IT infrastructure are now continuously replicated using 10Gbs and 1Gbs fiber optic connections. With backups performed in […]

The original article was published by The Geneva Association in their August 2014 newsletter. Cloud coming-of-age Cloud computing today refers to the process of leasing computing assets and the set of added services and assurances that accompany these assets, like provisioning services, backup systems, applications or service level agreements. The recent surge in cloud computing […]