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BPCE Infogérance et Technologies: Albiant-IT – Saphir

BPCE Infogérance et Technologies Albiant-IT – Saphir is located at 3 Avenue De La Montagne Noire, 81100 Castres, France. The gross building size for this location has not been provided. The gross colocation space is not available for this data center. No power information has been offered for this location. We found 22 data center locations within 50 miles of this facility. Certifications for this location include ISO 14001, ISO 50001.
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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

  1. Part of Albiant-IT’s 4 data centers across 2 campuses in France.
  2. Albiant-IT states its platform includes 12 rooms of 750 m² for critical infrastructure, including high-density areas and compute environments.
  3. Sites are designed with 2 x (N+1) redundancy for uninterrupted operation.
  4. Facilities are equipped with water mist fire extinguishing systems and high-sensitivity detection systems.
  5. The platform supports flexible hosting configurations with options for rack security, partitioning, SAS additions, and access-control enhancements.
  6. Albiant-IT provides 24/7 monitoring and intervention support for hosted environments.

🔐 Security & Compliance

  1. 24/7 staffed monitoring of hosting conditions.
  2. Layered physical security systems regularly audited by the operator.
  3. Controlled access options including enclosure, partitioning, SAS, and access controls at bay level.
  4. High-sensitivity detection systems and water mist extinguishing infrastructure.
  5. Albiant-IT states its data centers are certified for payment environments through PCI-DSS.
  6. The operator states the Albiréo and Antarès campuses hold ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 certifications.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

  1. Sites are linked by a very high-speed private national network for synchronous and asynchronous replication.
  2. Albiant-IT states there are many operators present in its data centers.
  3. The operator offers secure links between customer environments and its data centers.
  4. Albiant-IT also operates a private dark fiber network of more than 3,500 km between its centers for point-to-point connectivity.
  5. The platform is suited to continuity planning, disaster recovery, and multi-site architectures at national scale.

💼 Who It Serves

  1. Organizations running critical infrastructure and high-capacity IT environments.
  2. Enterprises requiring business continuity and national disaster recovery capabilities.
  3. Customers needing secure hosted environments with tailored physical segregation.
  4. Institutions with payment-related workloads requiring PCI-DSS-aligned hosting environments.