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References & Case Studies

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From small and medium-sized businesses to critical infrastructure operators: Discover projects in the areas of data centers, cloud, and managed services, implemented by GRASS-MERKUR and our technology partners.

Overview of References

Selected Real-World Projects

Automotive

Hybrid Data Center with Cloud and Colocation for an Automotive IT Service Provider

Data center operations relieved, cloud platform for the company's own service portfolio

An automotive IT service provider gives its data center operations a reliable foundation: colocation, cloud platform, and managed backup come from GRASS-MERKUR.

This gives the company room to develop its own offering for end customers.

Services from a single source
Colocation, cloud, backup
Billing
usage-based
  • Automotive
  • Managed Services
  • Colocation
  • Cloud Services

IT

High-Security Data Center and Site Networking for an IT Service Provider

Data center operations outsourced, sites connected via fiber optics and DWDM

An IT service provider outsources its data center operations to the certified high-security data center of GRASS-MERKUR.

Fiber optics and DWDM connect the sites. Backup media are kept in a data protection vault, and the infrastructure runs on green electricity.

Site networking
Fiber optics and DWDM
Backup media storage
Data protection vault
  • IT
  • Managed Services
  • Colocation
  • Cloud Services

Energy

Hybrid Cloud and Colocation for an Electricity Retailer

Corporate IT moved to the cloud in under six weeks, hardware connected in a hybrid setup

An electricity retailer had to migrate its entire IT in less than eight weeks. With the HAN-Cloud from GRASS-MERKUR, the IT was up and running in under six weeks.

The VMs run with high availability, hardware appliances are connected via an in-house link from the colocation, and SIEM/SOC protects both environments.

Time to go-live
<6 weeks
Monitoring
SIEM/SOC for cloud and colocation
  • KRITIS Organizations
  • Energy
  • Managed Services
  • Colocation
  • Cloud Services
  • Interconnection Services

Retail

Managed Cloud for a Retail Chain

In-house operations replaced, IT as a reliable service from the HAN-Cloud

A retail chain replaced its unstable in-house IT. Together with a partner, GRASS-MERKUR migrated the systems to the HAN-Cloud and operates them, including support and maintenance.

The VMs scale on an SLA basis in the sovereign data center, and all services run through a single point of contact.

Service areas from a single source
3
VM operations
SLA-based
  • Retail
  • Managed Services
  • Cloud Services
  • Interconnection Services

Joint project of GRASS-MERKUR & SARDINA SYSTEMS

GRASS-MERKUR Cloud: Half the Cost, Four Times the Capacity, with FishOS

Open, multi-tenant cloud platform for our own data center operations in Hanover

From eight to 81 nodes: this is how we rebuilt our own cloud with FishOS, with 10–15% lower energy consumption.

Named “Cloud Project of the Year” at the DCS Awards 2024.

Cost savings
50%
Capacity
>4x
  • IT
  • Managed Services
  • Cloud Services
  • Data Center

FIFGROUP: project by SARDINA SYSTEMS & PSI

VMware Exit with FishOS: Migration in Just Four Days

Vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure for a leading financial services provider in Indonesia

Using FishOS, Sardina Systems carried out the VMware exit at the Indonesian financial services provider FIFGROUP quickly and predictably, with local support from PT Pan Solusi Indodata (PSI).

The entire pilot cluster was migrated in just four days, license costs fell, and the dependence on a single vendor was eliminated.

Migration time
4 days
Average VM size
300 GB
  • International Companies
  • Financial Services
  • Cloud Services

de.NBI Cloud Tübingen: project by SARDINA SYSTEMS

de.NBI Cloud Tübingen: Certified, Automated, with FishOS

Secure, automated cloud infrastructure for the German bioinformatics community

This case study by Sardina Systems shows FishOS in a research environment.

The de.NBI Cloud Tübingen research cloud is ISO 27001-certified, largely automated, and operated independently.

Compute cores
6,720
Storage capacity
32 PB
  • Public Sector Organizations
  • Research & Development
  • Cloud Services
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