Beelastic to Add "Provision Your Own Service" to Its 100G IaaS Offering

Six months into the success of their high-speed low latency service, the company will offer new performance, cost and agility options for future-oriented tasks

GENEVA, June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Beelastic, Switzerland's first 100GbE native IaaS and bare-metal service provider, will soon be enabling customers to provision their own services – with the minimum complexity and guaranteed performance they expect. The company already has around 500 bare-metal servers from diverse manufacturers and a 1,300 kilometers optical dark fiber network connecting Switzerland's economic centers from Frankfurt to Lugano at a speed of 96 x 100G – making it the only provider to guarantee latency at high availability.

"The real-time society needs an infrastructure that guarantees the lowest latency and response times with high-cost efficiency," explains Hanspeter Tinner, Chief Service Officer and co-founder of Beelastic, regarding the extreme demands of Switzerland's renowned financial services. "This is only possible if the latest technologies are used throughout."

The company relies on best-of-breed equipment, including Nvidia's GPUs for its installed hardware and Nvidia's networking business unit's Mellanox switches and Cumulus OS for the operating system. Fortigate has been installed for security. On principle, they avoided lock-in by insisting on a highly efficient open-standards and fully transparent solution. The services they offer range from bare-metal servers, GPU-accelerated virtual desktops, and Veeam Cloud backups to S3 storage – all with appropriate ISO certifications and fully data-agnostic.

On principle, they avoided lock-in by insisting on a highly efficient open-standards and fully transparent solution. The services they offer range from bare-metal servers, GPU-accelerated virtual desktops, and Veeam Cloud backups to S3 storage – all with appropriate ISO certifications and fully data-agnostic.

Beelastic planned its entire infrastructure from a near-greenfield starting point. "With an eye to the future, we have freed ourselves from history and decided not to update the legacy systems with a lot of effort and costs. In retrospect, this proved to be the right way forward," explains Tinner. The company also understood the prominent role of network management in the flexible and cost-efficient provision of transmission and computing services.