Artmotion

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Artmotion
Company type Privately held
Industry Data center
Founded2000
Headquarters
Steinhausen, Switzerland
Key people
Mateo Meier (Founder and CEO)
ServicesData housing
Website www.artmotion.eu

Artmotion Ltd. is a Swiss-based data housing provider. It operates two data centers near the Swiss Alps that are designed for security-seeking businesses, [1] motivated by the country's political neutrality and ironclad privacy laws. [2] [3]

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History

Artmotion was founded in 2000 by Mateo Meier, who is also the current CEO of the company. [4] In 2003, Artmotion acquired Cyberhost, a Swiss Cloud hosting services provider. Since 2011, the Swiss data center provider Everyware Ltd. holds 25% of Artmotion's shares. [5] Artmotion increased its capital in 2015. [6]

Artmotion acquired 58% of shares in Citadelo and became a shareholder and board member in 2020. However Artmotion and Citadelo continued to operate as separate companies. [7] [8] Artmotion also owns a stake in Citadelo Switzerland. [9]

NSA PRISM scandal

After the 2013 PRISM leak, several cloud computing companies faced criticism for their lack of security, especially those based in US. [10] [11] Artmotion, among other Swiss-based cloud computing providers gained the most out of this scandal. [12] Mostly due to the country's stringent data privacy laws, their customer base increased and the company had their revenue increased 45 percent in a month following the scandal. [13] [14] According to the CEO Mateo Meier, except in a few European countries like Luxembourg and Switzerland, personal privacy is difficult to service in this modern world. [15] Switzerland is not a member of European Union, hence it is exempt from pan-European agreements to share data with member states, as well as the United States. [16]

References

  1. ↑ Mateo Meier (10 July 2013). "PRISM Scandal Boosts Revenue of Swiss Datacenter Provider Artmotion". Reuters. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Industry Outlook: Swiss Data Center Market". Datacenterjournal.com. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Laura Secorun Palet (12 July 2014). "Protecting the 21st century's most precious assets — in Swiss banks". USAToday . Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Company Overview of Artmotion Ltd". Bloomberg.com . Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Dedicated Server Provider Artmotion and Leading Datacenter Provider EveryWare are Forming an International Partnership" . Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Artmotion AG" . Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Artmotion invests in Citadelo to help enterprises secure their technology infrastructure". Help Net Security. 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  8. ↑ Coker, James (November 30, 2020). "Interview: Mateo Meier, CEO, Artmotion". Infosecurity Magazine.
  9. ↑ AG, Easymonitoring. "citadelo GmbH". Easymonitoring. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  10. ↑ "NSA Leaks Have Seen Business For Swiss Data Centers Boom". Eteknix.com. 7 July 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Scared of PRISM, US Firms Bank on Swiss Data Centers". Siliconangle.com. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  12. ↑ Groenfeldt, Tom. "Gov Spying Boosts Swiss Data Center Revenues". Forbes.com . Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  13. ↑ "PRISM Scandal Boosts Revenue of Swiss Datacenter Provider Artmotion". Reuters.com. 10 July 2013. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  14. ↑ "Artmotion CEO Mateo Meier on security, storage and a Swiss Cloud". Cloudcomputing-news.net. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  15. ↑ "56 per cent of UK citizens believe the government is spying on them". Itproportal.com. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
  16. ↑ Palet, Laura Secorun (12 July 2014). "Switzerland: From Banking Paradise To Data Safe Zone". NPR. Npr.org . Retrieved 29 July 2015.
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