A Shift to the Cloud Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is growing at an exponential rate and is likely to reach USD 126 billion in 2020. Not confined to the SME sector or non-production workloads, these figures illustrate a continued trend of migration to the cloud including by larger enterprises with critical customer-facing production workloads. The shift towards the cloud presents …
OCCOPUS – a Powerful Interface for Orchestrating Infrastructure in the Cloud
CloudSigma is currently participating in a Horizon 2020 research and innovation project called COLA (Cloud Orchestration at the Level of Application). You can read a general overview of the COLA project here, or visit the official project website here. CloudSigma’s primary contribution to the project is to manage the testbed and production of cloud infrastructure and to provide expertise into …
High Performance & Low Latency is What an Online Casino Requires from the Cloud
Customer Profile Our long-standing client is a software development company providing mostly online and offline gaming solutions to multiple customers around the world. They develop their products in an innovative, dynamic and collaborative environment. The continued satisfaction of their vertically market focused customer base results from the constant improvement of services through rapid analyzing, testing and development keeping their offerings …
Improving Data-intensive Applications by Moving Data and Computation into Mixed Cloud/Fog Environments
The DITAS project is a Research and Innovation Action funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon2020 Programme. The project started in January 2017 and will conclude in December 2019. The consortium includes 5 industry partners (including CloudSigma) and 3 research organisations from 6 European countries. The coordinator of the DITAS project is Dr. David García Pérez, from …
No Vendor Lock-In or Why This Global Logistics Company Chose CloudSigma
Customer Profile Bertschi AG is a Swiss transport company that provides logistics and transport for the chemical industry. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Durrenasch, Switzerland. Bertschi is a member of the European Chemical Transport Association. While the operational focus of Bertschi is on the European market, the company is expanding worldwide and has 75 subsidiaries …
Cloud Orchestration at the Level of Application
The COLA project is an Innovation Action funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon2020 Programme. The project started in January 2017 and will conclude in June 2019. The consortium includes 10 industry partners (including CloudSigma) and 4 research organisations from 6 European countries. The coordinator of the COLA project is Dr. Tamas Kiss, from the University of …
CloudSigma Becomes Preferred Partner for Cloud Services to the GÉANT Academic Network
Zurich, Switzerland – October, 2017 – we are happy to announce that CloudSigma, a leading European infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider with headquarters in Switzerland and European subsidiaries in Germany and Poland, has been awarded a GÉANT Infrastructure-as-a-Service Framework Agreement after successfully meeting the selection criteria in the call for competition in late 2016. With this new partnership, CloudSigma is able to …
CloudSigma Hybrid Cloud Offering
A hybrid cloud is the combination of features of two or more cloud models – private, community, and public. Consequently, it provides versatility, user-friendly and cost-effective features of the public cloud. It offers greater control and security of a private cloud and that is why it is often the preferred choice. Another driving factor is that companies prefer to have …
5 False Assumptions Every CTO Should Know About Cloud Computing
No doubt, Cloud Computing has brought benefits to the IT industry with its awesome innovations. Cloud adoption is transforming markets and industries every single day. As both small and large firms increase their knowledge of basic cloud computing services, many are migrating to the public cloud to house more complex and flexible business applications. Some companies have already advanced when …
10 Steps to Choose the Best Cloud Provider [Infographic]
Transferring one’s business operations – document storage and e-mails – to a cloud can reduce costs, streamline his/her workflow, and eradicate the need for in-house IT hardware and personnel. A good cloud provider is also capable of facilitating remote employee collaboration online, reporting for duty and obtaining secure access to important information. Probably the largest perk for small-sized enterprises is …
CloudSigma’s Channel Partner Program helps MSPs earn more with the cloud
In the era of cloud computing, companies no longer see the cloud as a mere option to reduce IT costs. Today cloud means scalability, business transformation, being closer to the customer, agility, and many other opportunities for gaining a competitive advantage. If you are a managed service provider (MSP), a system integrator or an IT consultant looking to add lifetime …
All You Need from Your Cloud Partner as an IT Services Provider – Stability, Performance & a Good Partner Program
Partner Profile Openbit is a Russian company operating in St. Petersburg. They offer IT support services such as maintenance of computers and servers, infrastructure support, user support, etc. Apart from Russia, Openbit also operates in Estonia and Spain. Openbit hosts its whole infrastructure with CloudSigma. For their infrastructure operations, they need a number of services like a remote management of …