UMB - Cloud Strategy

Why virtualisation in the cloud is good for the climate.

Data centers worldwide are estimated to consume 350 to 400 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year, or about one percent of global electricity consumption. On the one hand, digitization and the cloud have a large share in the exponential increase in data center traffic. On the other hand, cloud…

UMB becomes Fortinet's first Expert Cloud Partner!

UMB has been recognized by Fortinet as an Expert Partner for the Cloud Business Model - as the first Swiss company ever! This award underlines the comprehensive know-how of UMB in the important area of cloud technologies.

UMB Wins First Cloud Innovator Award from Fortinet!

UMB has made a real splash at the Fortinet Security Days in Bern: UMB is the first company in Switzerland to win the Fortinet Cloud Innovator award as well as being nominated for three further awards. These recognitions are the result of a long-standing and trustful cooperation with Fortinet. They…

WALO Leverages Collective Intelligence: Step by Step into a Digital Future with UMB.

Digital transformation is not a question of tools but of organization and culture, which must be fundamentally changed. The name WALO is synonymous with the Swiss construction industry. For more than a hundred years, this construction company has combined consistency and innovation. Today, with…

Hybrid Cloud Storage – at the Center and «on the Edge»

More and more companies are turning to hybrid clouds to realize or accelerate their digital transformation. This transformation makes securing the permanent availability of business data everywhere in the enterprise a necessity - from the data center to the farthest edge. Today, suitable,…

AI and the Cloud Call for a New Data Storage Approach.

The hybrid cloud and the processing of location-independent data as well as the huge amounts of data generated by AI are forcing storage technology vendors to adopt new approaches and different ways of thinking. Consistent access to and availability of data streams in a hybrid cloud infrastructure…

IBM Power10 Launch: Powerful IT for the Hybrid Cloud.

The new IBM Power10 servers are computers with immensely powerful 7-nanometer processors designed to meet the demands of modern cloud computing platforms. The latest IBM Power generation will be launched globally at a virtual event on Wednesday, September 8.

Backing up the Data Flood with SaaS from the Cloud.

Individuals, businesses, governments and other organizations are producing unimaginably large amounts of data. Last year alone, 59 zettabytes were added worldwide [i] – which equals one billion terabytes or one trillion gigabytes. A large portion of this data needs to be backed up. To do this,…

Azure, AWS & Co.: Why More and More Are Getting on Board.

The public cloud has gone mainstream: Forecasts predict that more than 90 percent of all workloads will be processed in cloud data centers this year - most of them in the public cloud. The most important reason for the popularity of the cloud is the ability to access data from anywhere - and…

Internet from Space for the Azure Cloud.

What do Microsoft's Azure cloud and Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink project have in common? The two enterprises enable data processing and data transport even in the most remote regions of the world. Thanks to Microsoft and Starlink, cloud computing can be brought to areas where no communications…

Business Apps: “Build once, deploy anywhere“

Red Hat, the world leader in open source solutions, is leading the global race for multi-cloud container platforms. According to Forrester Research, OpenShift is the most widely deployed multi-cloud container platform in the market.

Hybrid-Cloud, Multicloud, and Colocation for Your Connection to the World.

Companies that log on to the right service can exchange data with a wide variety of clouds and their own branch networks in different locations - often via software-defined platforms and a single connection to the outside world. In the age of multicloud and hybrid cloud environments this is easier…

LUNGE ZÜRICH and COVID-19: A UMB Customer in Permanent Demand.

LUNGE ZÜRICH is dedicated to providing for healthy lungs and a high quality of life for people with lung disease. In times like the COVID-19 pandemic, it is particularly evident how important the services of organizations like LUNGE ZÜRICH are. With a tailor-made IT solution UMB LUNGE ZÜRICH gains…

Microsoft and the Azure Cloud: The Perfect Linux Ecosystem.

Microsoft is "the largest open source project supporter in the world," says Microsoft cloud boss Scott Guthrie. The reason for this lies in the immense success of the Microsoft Azure Cloud, which Microsoft has been positioning as a Linux ecosystem for years. Today, well over half of all Azure VMs…

IBM z15: The Cloud, as Secure and Private as You Need It

The cloud is becoming increasingly important, prevalent and secure. More and more companies are moving their applications to the cloud. IBM has developed the latest mainframe generation in the wake of this development. The newest mainframe model z15 was developed following the mantra "the cloud you…

UMB Review Azure Zurich

With UMB ready for the Cloud and Azure Switzerland: We would like to thank our dedicated audience at Au Premier in Zurich. We hope that UMB, as an early adopter of Microsoft Azure Switzerland, was able to provide you with the necessary decision-making basis for your decision to move into the Swiss…

Microsoft Azure in Switzerland: What Does This Mean For You?

The Microsoft Azure Cloud will arrive in Switzerland later this year. With UMB you are at the forefront of this development. UMB has been selected by Microsoft Switzerland as an early adopter - and may exclusively use the Swiss Microsoft datacenters in Zurich and Geneva - even before the official…

Data Backup and Data Protection in the Cloud.

Last year, cloud computing revenues of approximately CHF 143 billion were generated worldwide. A large part of these services relate to the outsourcing and backup of data in the cloud. Cloud providers are well aware that business customers attach top priority to the security of their outsourced…