BPCE Infogérance et Technologies: Albiant-IT – Saphir
About Albiant-IT – Saphir
Albiant-IT – Saphir is a data center facility associated with Albiant-IT, the BPCE Group infrastructure entity presented through BPCE Infogérance & Technologies. The official Albiant-IT site states that the operator runs 4 data centers in France across 2 campuses, Albiréo and Antarès, with a private high-speed national network between sites for synchronous and asynchronous data replication.
Third-party infrastructure listings and the French public business directory identify Saphir with the Albiréo site in Castres, Tarn, Occitanie, France, at 3 Avenue de la Montagne Noire, 81100 Castres. This aligns Saphir with southern France’s regional enterprise and public-sector infrastructure market, while the broader Albiant-IT platform is positioned for business continuity and national resiliency use cases.
⚙️ Facility Highlights
- Part of Albiant-IT’s 4 data centers across 2 campuses in France.
- Albiant-IT states its platform includes 12 rooms of 750 m² for critical infrastructure, including high-density areas and compute environments.
- Sites are designed with 2 x (N+1) redundancy for uninterrupted operation.
- Facilities are equipped with water mist fire extinguishing systems and high-sensitivity detection systems.
- The platform supports flexible hosting configurations with options for rack security, partitioning, SAS additions, and access-control enhancements.
- Albiant-IT provides 24/7 monitoring and intervention support for hosted environments.
🔐 Security & Compliance
- 24/7 staffed monitoring of hosting conditions.
- Layered physical security systems regularly audited by the operator.
- Controlled access options including enclosure, partitioning, SAS, and access controls at bay level.
- High-sensitivity detection systems and water mist extinguishing infrastructure.
- Albiant-IT states its data centers are certified for payment environments through PCI-DSS.
- The operator states the Albiréo and Antarès campuses hold ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certifications.
🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access
- Sites are linked by a very high-speed private national network for synchronous and asynchronous replication.
- Albiant-IT states there are many operators present in its data centers.
- The operator offers secure links between customer environments and its data centers.
- Albiant-IT also operates a private dark fiber network of more than 3,500 km between its centers for point-to-point connectivity.
- The platform is suited to continuity planning, disaster recovery, and multi-site architectures at national scale.
💼 Who It Serves
- Organizations running critical infrastructure and high-capacity IT environments.
- Enterprises requiring business continuity and national disaster recovery capabilities.
- Customers needing secure hosted environments with tailored physical segregation.
- Institutions with payment-related workloads requiring PCI-DSS-aligned hosting environments.