Swiss Re Moves to Swisscom Cloud

Swisscom is providing a development platform, runtime environment, databases and IT service management to increase agility for a global reinsurance provider.

Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading

April 26, 2016

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Swiss Re Moves to Swisscom Cloud

When natural disaster strikes, Swiss Re needs to move fast. The global reinsurance company -- it provides insurance to insurance companies -- is turning to cloud services from Swisscom to increase business agility, including infrastructure, databases and development.

Swiss Re is looking to Swisscom AG (NYSE: SCM) cloud services to give its 12,500 employees at 70 global locations fast access to reliable data, Swisscom said in a statement Tuesday. Swisscom is providing a development platform, runtime environment, databases and IT service management, using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (SaaS), database-as-a-service, integration, management and service portals, Swisscom says.

Swiss Re plans to develop new solutions in the Swisscom Application Cloud, built on microservices and other modern software design methods, and using Cloud Foundry, the standards for cloud-native open source platforms.

Swisscom stores its data in Switzerland, which was a key factor in Swiss Re's selection process, Swisscom says. Swisscom plans to offer its cloud services from global locations in the future, initially Hong Kong and the US.

That's all from Swisscom's point of view. We hope to be able to tell you Swiss Re's perspective on the deal soon.

Earlier this week, Swisscom announced that it's using PlumGrid SDN software to increase flexibility and manageability for enterprise customers. (See Swisscom Taps PlumGrid SDN for OpenStack Cloud Services.)

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About the Author

Mitch Wagner

Executive Editor, Light Reading

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

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