The hospitality industry is more digital than ever. Booking systems, cash register systems, TV platforms, WiFi, digital signage, payment solutions and business-critical applications need to work around the clock. As demands for availability, security and flexibility increase, more businesses within hospitality choose to move systems, applications and data to cloud services.
For many hotels and restaurants, it is no longer just about having technology that works. It is about creating a secure, scalable and future-proof IT environment that can adapt when the business, the number of guests or the digital services change. Here, Swedish cloud services can play an important role.
Swedish cloud services mean that servers, storage, networks and other IT resources are delivered as services from a Swedish cloud provider. Instead of buying and managing all the underlying hardware yourself, you get access to resources that can be adapted and scaled according to the needs of the business.
With Binero's Swedish cloud services, data is handled exclusively in Sweden. The services are thus covered by Swedish legislation and GDPR. Binero also owns its data centre and has its own staff, which provides a clear local anchoring for businesses with high demands on secure data handling.
For the hotel and restaurant industry, this means a flexible IT environment where you can access the capacity you need without having to take responsibility for the physical infrastructure behind the services.
Increased availability for business-critical systems
Swedish cloud services provide hotels and restaurants the opportunity to build a more flexible and available IT environment. Resources for computing, storage, and networking can be adapted to the business's needs, making it easier to manage both daily operations and periods of higher load.
For hotel chains and restaurant chains with multiple locations, the cloud can create a common platform for central systems, data, and applications. This can simplify management and create better conditions for developing uniform digital services throughout the business.
Binero's public cloud service offers among other things computing power, several types of storage, and network services via an OpenStack-based platform. Resources can be managed via portal, terminal, or API.
High security for sensitive information
Within the hotel and restaurant industry, information related to bookings, payments, guests, staff, and internal business systems is handled. Therefore, it is important to know where the information is stored, how it is managed, and which legislation applies.
With Swedish cloud services from Binero, data is managed in Sweden under Swedish legislation and GDPR. Binero is also certified according to ISO 27001 for information security.
A Swedish cloud platform can provide the business with:
• Clarity about where data is stored
• Control over data and cloud resources
• Support for compliance
• Access control and separated environments
• Possibility for backups and snapshots
• Local support from Swedish technicians
• A clearer division of responsibility between the business and the provider
This creates a stable foundation for hotels and restaurants that handle personal data and other types of business-critical information.
When you choose a Swedish cloud provider, you get a partner operating in the same market and under the same legislation as your business. This can facilitate communication regarding, for example, data management, security requirements, support, agreements, and compliance.
Binero owns and operates its data centre outside Stockholm with its own staff. Data stored in Binero's cloud services is handled locally in Sweden.
For hotels and restaurants, a local cloud partner also means proximity to Swedish technicians who understand the conditions of the business. This can be particularly valuable when several digital services, providers, and systems need to work together.
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Hospitality operations do not only take place during office hours. Guests check in late in the evening, restaurants stay open long after the workday ends, and conference facilities depend on stable technology throughout the event.
Therefore, cloud services, support, and underlying IT infrastructure also need to be adapted for businesses that are active during large parts of the day.
At Binero, support is included around the clock from Swedish technicians. Cloud resources can also be scaled according to the business needs, and in the public cloud, customers pay for the resources they use.
This gives hotels and restaurants the ability to manage changing needs without having to dimension the entire IT environment for the year's most demanding period.
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue within hospitality. Guests, corporate customers, and procuring organisations place higher demands on how hotels and restaurants work with environment, energy use, and resource efficiency.
Binero's data centre uses 100 percent renewable electricity and is certified according to Fossil Free Data Centre. The excess heat from the data centre is also used to heat homes in the municipality. Binero is also environmentally certified according to ISO 14001.
By choosing Swedish cloud services with documented sustainable data centre operation, the hotel's or restaurant's IT environment can become a clearer part of the overall sustainability work.
For many businesses, the choice of cloud provider is therefore not only about capacity and security. It is also about choosing a solution that supports the business's long-term climate and sustainability goals.
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Digitisation in the hospitality industry continues to evolve. AI-based services, smart room features, advanced analytics, personalisation and integrated guest services place higher demands on the underlying IT environment.
This means that the choice of cloud services is not only about where applications run or data is stored. The business needs to ensure that the cloud platform can deliver sufficient capacity, high security and the ability to scale as needs change.
With IaaS, hotels and restaurants can gain access to servers, storage and networks without having to buy or manage the underlying hardware. Binero's public cloud also offers instance types for, among other things, general use, high performance, large memory needs, NVMe and GPU-accelerated workloads.
For development teams and digital services, PaaS and container platforms can provide additional flexibility. Binero offers both IaaS and PaaS, including self-managed and managed container platforms.
For hotels and restaurants that want to retain control over their data while gaining access to a flexible and modern IT platform, Swedish cloud services can therefore be a strategic choice.
If your business depends on stable digital services, handles personal data, has high requirements for availability or wants to create a more flexible foundation for future digitalisation, Swedish cloud services can be a natural next step.
With a Swedish cloud provider, local data management, scalable cloud resources and the ability to combine public and private environments, you can build an IT platform that suits both today's business and tomorrow's hospitality.
Binero's Swedish cloud services give you access to an OpenStack-based cloud platform, local Swedish data management, scalable resources and support from Swedish technicians. The solution can also be combined with managed services, networks and other connected services.
Do you want to know how Swedish cloud services can strengthen the IT environment at your hotel, restaurant or in your hospitality business? Contact Binero for a review of your needs and future possibilities.
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