Our infrastructure
An integrated infrastructure, with three datacenters in Switzerland
DFi operates an infrastructure based exclusively in Switzerland, relying on three Tier3+ and Tier4 datacenters, located in the cantons of Geneva and Vaud. This perfectly controlled and secure environment gives each of our customers all the guarantees for the optimal hosting of their most critical applications.
The best technology to ensure optimal security and availability of your data
Security of the infrastructure
- Equipment installed in private rooms
- Access to persons authorised by DFi only
- Visual and biometric fingerprint identification
- Video surveillance 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Smoke detection and fire extinguishing system
- Dual, uninterrupted power supply backed up by batteries and generators with several days of autonomy
- Air conditioning system
Network security
- Cabling system using different paths between components (no Single Point of Failure on the backbone)
- Access to the network via numerous BGP connections (private peering with Swisscom)
- Highly available cluster servers with redundant power supply and ventilation (IBM BLADE CENTER technology and boot on SAN)
- Data storage with optical fiber using SAN or NAS technology (2 SANs)
- Daily and full data backup
- Monitoring and restoration of services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Guarantee and Service Level Agreement (SLA) on most services
Security management
- Multiple redundant active/active firewalls
- Multiple Intrusion Detection Systems
- Traffic monitoring via Netflow
- System and network monitoring via nagios with a single Network + Host console
- Monitoring of suspicious activities by our SOC
Environmental commitment
- Design of data centres with green IT in mind
- Use of FreeCooling technology
- Signatory to the European Code of Conduct Centres Energy Efficiency
- Member of The Green Grid consortium