SafeKit customers
This page lists some cases of SafeKit in action, including both large and small organizations, loosely grouped by sector of activity:
- Banking and insurance
- Telecommunications
- Manufacturing and services
- The public sector, including national and local government, defense, police, and health care
- Resellers and system integrators
Banking and insurance

With over 12,000 employees and 116 international offices, Natixis is the investment banking and service subsidiary of Groupe Banques Populaires and Caisse d'Epargne in France. SafeKit technology was chosen to guarantee high availability of its business exchange gateways (Axway Gateway Interchange) on more than 10 AIX and Linux clusters.

Dresdner Bank, a German bank, is using SafeKit on a cluster of AIX servers to ensure high availability of its employee-authentication system.

Dexia Bank is one of the three biggest Belgian Banks. SafeKit has been deployed to ensure high availability of the access control for the 20,000 users on Windows clusters.

Inside the Caisse d'Epargne French bank, CGE Garanties is using SafeKit for high availability and load balancing of its Internet access.

GSIT, French Interbank Teleclearing System Consortium, exchanges and clears each year 1 billion of interbank transactions amounting to 400 billion euros. The availability of the teleclearing system is critical. The SafeKit solution offers a double advantage because in addition to replicating data, log files and Oracle database, it brings high availability to the supervision system.

Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB is a private organization made up of 200 French and foreign banking and financial institutions operating in France. The supervision of computer systems at Groupement des Cartes Bancaires is made highly available by a SafeKit solution on an AIX cluster.

Diebold is an automated teller machine (ATM) specialist. Automated teller machines connect to a remote service to validate transactions made by customers. Diebold is using SafeKit to ensure service continuity of this ATM connection on AIX clusters.

The AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) is the independent public agency responsible for regulating and overseeing financial markets in France. AMF is using SafeKit on a Linux server cluster to ensure high availability of its financial-flow exchange gateway.

MMA (French Insurance) is using SafeKit on a cluster of Windows servers to ensure round-the-clock supervision of its computer systems.

SwissLife is a big insurance group. The Belgian subsidiary of SwissLife uses SafeKit to offer high availability of the Internet web-authentication components.

With over 12,000 employees, Signal Iduna is one of the leading insurance groups in Germany. Signal Iduna is using SafeKit as a generic failure-recovery solution. Today, more than 15 Solaris, Linux and Windows software clusters are deployed to ensure high availability of various applications at Signal Iduna.

At Edmond de Rothschild Private Bank, Safekit is deployed on two Windows software clusters, one in high-availability and data-replication architecture for Citrix web interface, and the other in high-availability and load balancing architecture for Citrix security gateway.
Telecommunications

France Telecom is using SafeKit to ensure high availability of the system that returns alarms from France Telecom’s fixed network devices. This system is deployed on AIX and Linux server clusters.

Telecom Italia is a leading European Telecom company. The group is using SafeKit to ensure high availability of the access-control and web-security solution.

Telecom Développement, now an integral part of Cegetel, is a French Telecom operator. SafeKit was chosen and deployed to ensure high availability of the authentication, access-control and Web SSO infrastructure.

Information about Alcatel employees is managed in Sun Directory with over 120,000 entries. Two Sun clusters fitted with SafeKit are deployed, one in France and the other in Canada, to ensure high availability and load balancing on the Alcatel employee directory.

Deutsche Telecom is using SafeKit on Sun and Windows clusters to ensure high availability of its fixed (T-Com) and mobile (T-Mobile) network surveillance service as well as its authentication service as an internet access provider (T-Online).

British Telecom is using Ericsson's network devices and the SafeKit high-availability option provided in OEM by Ericsson.

Vodafone is a leader in mobile communications, and is represented in 26 countries throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. . Vodafone uses SafeKit on Sun clusters for high availability of its Identity and Access Management solution.

Sonatel is the telecom operator leader in Senegal. Sonatel uses SafeKit on Windows clusters for high availability of its Identity and Access Management solution.
Manufacturing and services

EADS Space Transportation is a European space transportation and space infrastructure specialist. It designs, develops and builds Ariane-type launchers, the Columbus laboratory and ATV cargo for the International Space Station. It also builds re-entry vehicles, launchers for the French nuclear missile program as well as thrusters and space equipment. SafeKit has been deployed to ensure high availability of the web access control infrastructure for the 5,000 users.

Total is a leading multinational energy company with over 110,000 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fourth largest publicly-traded oil and gas integrated company in the world. Total uses SafeKit for high availability of the web access control infrastructure.

Within the SUEZ Group, SUEZ Environment federates all the environmental skills in terms of water management, sanitation, and waste services.SUEZ Environment uses SafeKit for the high availability and load balancing of the web access control.

Techem is the number 1 energy company in Germany. Techem uses SafeKit for high availability of its Identity and Access Management solution.

Sibelga is the distribution network operator for electricity and natural gas in the Brussels-Capital Region. Sibelga uses SafeKit for high availability of its Identity and Access Management solution.

Sanofi-Aventis holds a top-ranking position in the European pharmacological industry. SafeKit is deployed at Sanofi-Avantis to ensure high availability of the Identity and Access Management suite for some 12,000 users in Germany.

Castorama operates a chain of home improvement retail centers in France. Getinor, the economic interest group of Castorama, is using SafeKit on a cluster of Linux servers to ensure high availability of the company’s information system monitoring equipment.

The German electronic equipment supplier, Sonepar, is using SafeKit to ensure high availability of its firewalls and authentication service on Linux and AIX clusters.

With its 300 stores, JoueClub is a specialist of the distribution of toys in France. SafeKit is used on Windows cluster to ensure the high availability of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) of JoueClub.

RATP (the Paris transport company) is using SafeKit to ensure high availability of the surveillance systems for Metro lines on Windows clusters.

About 5300 people are working with DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, the company in charge of air traffic control all over Germany, with over 2.5 million flights a year. The German air traffic controller is using SafeKit on 12 Linux and Sun clusters to ensure service continuity for a supervision application in the control towers.

Luxair’s aircraft reservation system is made highly available and disaster resistant with a SafeKit solution on a cluster of AIX servers located in distinct machine rooms.

More than 5 million passengers pass through Athens international airport every year. The application used to manage Athens airport and which is made highly available with SafeKit was developed by ABB Airport Technology. This application stores in an Oracle database running with Linux RedHat all the incoming and outgoing flights, as well as luggage arrivals, displayed on the airport information systems.

The architecture deployed at Transports Laperrière secures on two remote sites the transport-logistics business application and the payroll-management application.

Deutsche Post is one of the largest postal organizations in Europe. Within the scope of a very ambitious development project for its information system, based on ‘web services’ and SAML architectures, Deutsche Post wished to deploy a consistent global security infrastructure both for its web applications and client-server applications. Safekit was chosen to ensure high availability of the authentication servers generating SAML assertions for all the 80,000 users of the project.

Australia Post is committed to providing high-quality mail and parcel services to all Australians. SafeKit is used at Australian Post to ensure high availability of postal automation solutions.

Ouest France is a large press company in France. SafeKit is used to ensure high availability of press applications on Windows clusters in 20 branch offices.
Public sector

France’s Interior Ministry is using SafeKit as generic high-availability and multi-platform tool for its AIX, Windows and Linux applications.

France’s Defense Ministry (army and air force) is using SafeKit as high-availability solution for military applications.

The Moselle Regional Council (France) is using SafeKit as a uniform, multi-applications and multi-OS high-availability solution. Today, 15 server pairs are deployed to secure the following applications on AIX, Windows and Linux: Oracle, print server, badge manager, reverse proxies, message manager, etc.

The information systems of CAF (the French social security office) are monitored around the clock thanks to SafeKit on AIX clusters.

The Nigerian Ministry of Family Affairs is using SafeKit as high-availability solution for its passport-management application deployed in 50 agencies. SafeKit is deployed with Microsoft SQL Server on Windows clusters.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland was looking to provide security for its applications and information systems. SafeKit is deployed to ensure high availability of the Identity and Access Management suite for some 10,000 users.

The SISS Lombardia institution (Italian Health Care Information System) is the principal health insurer in Italy, with more than 10 million clients. RegioneLombardia uses SafeKit for high availability of its Identity and Access Management solution.

DAK -life companies - is the main health care provider in Germany. DAK uses SafeKit for high availability of its Identity and Access Management solution.

French Hospitals of Cadillac, Regnier Rennes, Bagnères de Bigorre, Lisieux, Baclesse, Fort de France are using SafeKit for ensuring high availability of their medical applications.

Most of fire-control centers in France are using the SafeKit high availability solution in their emergency call centers (the emergency call number in France is 18, equivalent to 999 in the UK and 112 in other European countries).
Resellers and system integrators

Ericsson is using SafeKit as an OEM offer that brings in a high-availability option for its own Ethernet (PEM) equipment management applications and its voice over IP routers. The systems deployed are Sun and Linux clusters running with SafeKit.

The video-on-demand services developed by Sagem are made highly available using the SafeKit solution on Sun and Linux.

AddressVision (AVI) is one of the world’s premier providers of postal automation technology. Postal software suite of AddressVision is made highly available with the SafeKit solution.

With operations in 50 countries and 68,000 employees, Thales is a world leader in Mission-critical information systems for the Aerospace, Defence and Security markets. Thales uses SafeKit to deploy high availability and load balancing on mission critical applications.

Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. SafeKit is deployed by Atos Origin on Windows clusters for high availability of the surveillance systems for Metro lines.

Steria is a leading end-to-end IT services provider in Europe. Steria is deploying the SafeKit high availability solution in its mission critical projects.

Frame is a French software reseller specialized on the market of small and medium size enterprise. Frame proposes SafeKit as a low cost cluster solution on its market.

Systel is a Systems Integrator specialized in call center solutions for emergency services and, in particular, for fire departments (the emergency call number in France is 18, equivalent to 999 in the UK and 112 in other European countries). Systel deploys SafeKit on Windows and Linux clusters in many fire-control centers.

SYDEL focuses its activities around the creation and the integration of global solutions to manage the Supply Chain. SafeKit is used to ensure high availability of Sydel applications on Linux and AIX clusters.

WithNCompany Inc of Korea is a software developer and distributor/VAR of various continuous availability-oriented solutions. Since 2001, WithNCompany has kept focus on the market of data protection, disaster recovery, high availability, remote backup, data distribution and consolidation. WithNCompany is dedicated to offering its customers only best-of-breed products and security solutions. WithNCompany is Evidian's distributor for SafeKit in Korea.

Delwave Distribution is a Special-Network-Distributor in Germany for leading technology-products of selected vendors. Delwave is reselling SafeKit as the high availability and load balancing product in its software portfolio.

Diventus is established in Berlin, Germany and is specialized in fault tolerant systems. Diventus is reselling SafeKit as the high availability and load balancing product in its software portfolio.

TWINSEC in Germany is focused on all aspects of IT-Security. TWINSEC is reselling SafeKit as the high availability and load balancing product in its software portfolio.

As a supplier and service provider in Germany, Dögel IT-Management is specialised in IT management. Dögel IT is reselling SafeKit as the high availability and load balancing product in its software portfolio.

Computer Concept in Dresden, Germany is a service company specilialized in the availability of business, data and applications as well as the creation of customized software solutions. CC Dresden is reselling SafeKit as the high availability and load balancing product in its software portfolio.

Globaz (http://www.globaz.ch) is a company specialized in information technology for social insurance in Switzerland. High availability of its software suite is ensured with SafeKit on Windows clusters.

unite form is a specialist digital agency in United Kingdom with a core focus on large-scale eCommerce and CMS websites. unite form proposes SafeKit to its customers for ensuring high availability and load balancing of their websites.

For over ten years, Copperchase has specialised in the provision of messaging skills to the aviation industry in United Kingdom. Copperchase has deployed SafeKit in many airports on Windows clusters to ensure high availability of its application suite.






