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Sovereign cloud for an education platform

Avendoo relies on the Swiss Open Telekom Cloud

Sovereign cloud for data sovereignty

To support customers in Switzerland with strict data sovereignty and compliance requirements, Avendoo chose the Swiss Open Telekom Cloud as its trusted solution. Hosted in highly secure Swiss data centers, the Swiss Open Telekom Cloud offers the flexibility and scalability of public cloud services while ensuring that all data remains within Switzerland's jurisdiction. 

Customer pain points

  • Provide the Avendoo learning platform as SaaS from a sovereign cloud
  • Customer requirements: data security, data protection, and local data storage for using the learning platform in Switzerland
     

How T-Systems solved it

  • Hosting the learning platform in Germany on the Open Telekom Cloud
  • Hosting the learning platform for the Swiss market on the Swiss Open Telekom Cloud
  • The Swiss Open Telekom Cloud is provided from two data centers in Bern and Zollikofen, with three availability zones and based on OpenStack
  • Separate client on the Swiss Open Telekom Cloud for custom configuration
  • Automated deployments in accordance with the infrastructure as code (IaC) principle
  • Security and compliance features are integrated; customer support and services are provided by a local Swiss team
  • The Open Telekom Cloud verifies satisfaction of compliance requirements through a variety of certificates, including BSI C5 Type 2

Thanks to the certified European Open Telekom Cloud and the Swiss Open Telekom Cloud, we ensure compliance with legal regulations regarding data sovereignty for our customers, while gaining all the benefits of the flexibility of cloud computing.

Julien Boppert, Managing Director, Avendoo

Business impact

  • The Swiss Open Telekom Cloud follows GDPR guidelines and satisfies the requirements of Swiss data protection law (DSG)
  • Smooth, latency-free export of data for analytics
  • Three availability zones ensure a high level of business resilience
  • The cloud is scalable according to request load and is billed on pay-as-you-go basis

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About Avendoo

Avendoo offers a comprehensive learning platform for businesses, government agencies, and associations, to train employees and customers anywhere, anytime, and make them enthusiastic about education. The learning platform has features such as event management, knowledge management, and tests. It provides access to information and knowledge on a variety of user devices.

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