Hi everyone, my name is Sabrina! Before joining VSHN I was working as a COBOL developer for a Swiss bank. I developed a lot of back end components in the area of payments. I decided that I wanted to branch out more and learn new technologies and skills, that’s why I applied for a job at VSHN. I am excited to join team Sirius and to learn as much as I can from my co-workers.

Watch our new intro to Project Syn: Tobias Brunner held a brand new introduction to #ProjectSyn at the Cloud Native Bern Meetup on Oct 29, 2020. Watch the recording and let us know what you think.

Video is the new normal, or is it? As a visual species, we humans usually find videos more memorable and “easier to consume” than any other type of content. Be it to tell stories, for explanatory or cat videos or during the pandemic to give a more personal insight behind the scenes of VSHN. VSHN on YouTube and Adrian’s first video #VSHN.timer.

Our Project Syn is one of six projects shortlisted for the DINAcon Awards 2020. With the DINAcon Awards, open projects of communities, companies, administrations, organizations and individuals are honored each year at the digital DINAcon conference.

Aarno and Markus were invited to participate in the Swiss Digital Apéro Podcast and were interviewed by Philipp Meier of Red Hat on the topic of managed services. Under the headline “Why does VSHN rely on Red Hat in the Managed Service area” we were allowed to participate in our very first podcast and tell something about the history of VSHN and our cooperation with Red Hat.

Migrating OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 3 to 4: learn about possible migration paths and why you should make the move to the new version of OpenShift. Recap: what is OpenShift? Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud, enterprise Kubernetes application platform for developers and business applications.

WeAreDevelopers Live Week with Aarno & Adrian as speakers. It’s on again. Join us for the second edition of the WeAreDevelopers Live Week – with a jam-packed, all-online coding experience coming to you. Two VSHNeers are taking part with a talk, join us and “Welcome home, developers!”.

Markus Speth is a new member of the management of VSHN as of October 1st, 2020. “I am extremely pleased to take on responsibility as a member of the management and to be able to influence the fate of VSHN even more.”

As a Swiss company with the option to host data exclusively in Swiss clouds & data centers, we are now the proud bearer of the “swiss hosting” label. We are clearly committed to Swissness and support the idea of “swiss hosting” to create comparability among the various hosting providers.

VSHN announces Red Hat OpenShift 4 services. We’re very happy to announce Red Hat OpenShift 4 services on APPUiO! The whole VSHN team has been working hard on making OpenShift 4 a reality for our customers. We are fully committed on the strategic importance of our Red Hat partnership and OpenShift as a main pillar of APPUiO and VSHN services.

As announced in the  we’re changing our corporate governance. A first step is that André Keller leaves the management and Marco Fretz joins with a strong focus on organizational development and daily operations. This change happens on request of André because he decided to shift the focus back to technical work and day-to-day customer service management and resign from his management role.

Wie die Zeit doch vergeht! Vor bald sechs Jahren haben wir die VSHN gegründet. In der Anfangszeit sassen wir zu acht in einem Grossraumbüro. Entscheidungen konnten rasch und unkompliziert im Team gefällt werden. Die Kehrseite der Medaille war, dass aufgrund der limitierten Personenzahl viele VSHNeers mehrere Rollen innerhalb der Firma einnehmen mussten. Es gab keine dedizierte Stelle, die sich um die Belange der Mitarbeiter kümmerte. Oder eine, die technische Entwicklungen vorantrieb. Dasselbe galt beim Marketing, und nicht nur dort. Wir alle trugen viele Hüte zugleich.

VSHN enters into a partnership with Rancher. VSHN has been working with Rancher since 2018 and is now an official Rancher Partner. With Managed Rancher VSHN takes care of the setup as well as 24/7 operation, monitoring, backup and maintenance of a Rancher Cluster. Hosted in a public cloud of your choice or on-premises in your own data center.

A lot has been written about home office and remote work during the Corona / Covid-19 crisis. We also wrote a blog post about our experience, but more on a social than on a tool or process level (everyone has probably heard now that there is a videoconferencing tool called “Zoom” ).

We’re already at our second week of Home Office in the COVID-19 quarantine. It is time for me to reflect and make a short interim evaluation. As the person responsible for People Ops in VSHN, it is my natural concern to ensure that all VSHNeers stay motivated in these times, that we keep in touch with each other, and that nobody feels alone.

We are experiencing unprecedented times due to the coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on people’s health, our daily lives, as well as on businesses and the economy. In these special times and increasing challenge that we all currently have to master, we at APPUiO would like to make a contribution. Therefore we offer you as “immediate help” an APPUiO Public account on cloudscale.ch with 1100 mC CPU, 2.0 GiB memory for a full 90 days free of charge, which corresponds to a value of CHF 300.

Patrick Mathers, CEO VSHN, im Interview. Moneycab.com: Herr Mathers, bitte erläutern Sie kurz was Ihr Unternehmen macht. Patrick Mathers: Die Digitalisierung macht heute vor keiner Branche mehr halt. Das bedeutet, dass so gut wie alle Unternehmen nun auch gleichzeitig IT-Firmen sein müssen, egal ob es sich hierbei um einen Finanzdienstleister oder einen Detailhändler handelt. Zudem wird die benötigte IT komplexer, schnelllebiger und risikoreicher, weswegen Software kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt werden muss.

KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2020. Die KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europa 2020 findet in Amsterdam in den Niederlanden statt. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon VSHN organisiert auch an der diesjährigen KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europa 2020 in Amsterdam wieder ein Swiss CNC Get Together Meetup, um die Schweizer Kollegen, die an der KubeCon teilnehmen, in ungezwungener Atmosphäre zusammenzuführen.

In autumn 2018 and one year later in 2019, we conducted a study to investigate how Swiss companies understand DevOps and whether they already work according to DevOps principles. The status of DevOps in Switzerland was clarified, reasons for and against an introduction of the DevOps philosophy and where the development is going. The results were compared between the years in order to be able to directly identify conclusions and trends.

VSHN goes to Canada – our findings. In the last months of 2019, Daniel, Manuel, and Matthias were working in Vancouver. You can find more about the reasons behind choosing Canada in our blog post VSHN goes to Vancouver. But now, enjoy the recap video about our findings and to give you a glimpse into life in Canada.