Now more than ever, companies are faced with the task of setting up their IT infrastructures in a way that is flexible, scalable and secure. Traditional server landscapes quickly reach their limits, as peak loads, new functions or regulatory requirements often lead to long lead times or high investments.
For Virtual Minds, it was clear that a sustainable solution had to offer more than just efficiency. It had to combine technological excellence with future-proofing, while also meeting the highest European standards in terms of data sovereignty and compliance.
From on-premises to cloud architecture
With this goal in mind, we made a strategic decision: to completely migrate our IT landscape to an agile, sovereign and GDPR-compliant private cloud. The foundation for this is a customised OpenStack platform, which we are implementing together with WIIT, a leading provider of European cloud solutions.
Award
Our joint project won an award at the Digital360 Awards 2025 in the category ‘Cloud Computing & Infrastructure Solutions’. Every year, the awards recognise the best innovation and security projects, and our win confirms how relevant open, resilient infrastructures are for Europe's digital future.
The collaboration with WIIT enables us to gradually transition our existing on-premises environment to a modern cloud architecture. Instead of rigid server structures, we will rely on flexible virtual resources that can be dynamically adapted.
This is complemented by Managed Kubernetes, which ensures efficient and secure operation of container-based applications. The result is an infrastructure that is significantly more agile, resilient and future-oriented, giving us the freedom to focus entirely on our core applications and our customers.
Customer benefits you can feel
By migrating our infrastructure, we are not only improving our internal processes, but also creating directly tangible benefits for our customers:
- Greater reliability and availability: Distributing cloud servers across multiple availability zones ensures virtually uninterrupted operation. Customers thus benefit from significantly increased reliability and minimised downtime.
- Dynamic adaptation to demand: The infrastructure responds instantly to peak loads – fully automatically and without manual intervention. For customers, this means consistently high performance, regardless of the level of utilisation.
- Faster innovation and shorter release cycles: Demand-driven resource provisioning enables new features and updates to be rolled out much more quickly. This gives customers greater agility and shorter time-to-market for new features.
More than just a relocation: infrastructure for the future
Our new infrastructure not only focuses on flexibility and speed, but also anchors security as a fundamental standard. Operating on state-of-the-art, highly optimised hardware minimises risks from the ground up thanks to integrated security features and facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements.
The migration to WIIT’s OpenStack platform will take place in clearly defined phases, strictly based on the importance of our products and services for the business. We will gradually transfer individual services over the coming weeks and months. This carefully planned approach guarantees a smooth transition and ensures that our usual high service quality is maintained.
We are also using the migration as an opportunity for fundamental optimisation:
- Technical agility: Services are not simply moved, but architecturally adapted so that they can scale even more flexibly and performantly in the future.
Increasing customer satisfaction: Our overarching goal is to significantly improve the experience for our users by providing a more stable, faster and more reliable platform.
The next step: global scaling and outlook
Following this initial migration phase, the infrastructure is planned to be expanded to other regions. This will significantly increase reliability and at the same time create the conditions for a globally scalable infrastructure for our platforms such as Active Agent DSP, Yieldlab SSP, The Adex DMP and Virtual Minds Media Manager. In doing so, we are laying the foundation for international expansion, robust disaster recovery solutions and a long-term, future-proof IT landscape.
