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When starting to use any new platform there’s a lot to take in so we wanted to share some top tips on how to ensure the smooth running of your account and minimize hassle and potential disruption from funding and maintaining your account so you can concentrate on the important stuff. In this blog post, we talk you through some …
CloudSigma now offers direct connectivity via the DE-CIX Internet Exchange. End users can benefit from secure, dedicated cloud network access through any DE-CIX members to CloudSigma. Frankfurt, Germany – March, 2017 Following the opening of its German cloud location in September 2016, CloudSigma joined the DirectCLOUD network and now offers direct connectivity via the DE-CIX Internet Exchange. The DE-CIX platform …
Customer Profile GENIO GROUP develops services for the financial sector focusing on risk assessment, fraud prevention, support in compliance certification attainment processes, banking, fiscal management of credit, legal support and management of litigation. The company was founded with the goal of providing innovative tools with a high technical value and content. Typical use cases include due diligence processes and credit …
Customer Profile The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organisation with 34 state members. It is both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service. It produces and disseminates numerical weather predictions to its Member States. This data is fully available to the national meteorological services in the Member States. The Centre also offers a …
It is now possible to dynamically manage your PTR records on CloudSigma’s DNS servers. This new functionality provides greater flexibility in setting up your applications in our cloud. We now accept dynamic updates of PTR records within our zones. This means that our dynamic DNS servers (DDNS) will accept updates directly from individual IP addresses from the networks used within …
Customers often ask about CPU steal time. Especially those that use the CPUs heavily and for whom it’s a key performance criteria. There are quite a few differences in the setup and behaviour of CPUs and cores between physical and virtual environments. Even between cloud providers there are setups differences that make like for like comparison on the face of …
The reality is that the vast majority of companies are going to need to adopt a hybrid cloud approach. Or to incorporate existing and new technologies and systems. But what is hybrid cloud really and what strategies should novice companies consider? I sat down for a Q&A and discussed hybrid cloud approaches with our partners IP Converge in Manila.This is …
CloudSigma is proud to announce the launch of its cloud offering at the DARZ data centre in Darmstadt near Frankfurt, Germany. CloudSigma now serves the key German market with a native deployment. Zurich, Switzerland – September, 2016 – Following its strategy of geographical expansion during 2016, CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with headquarters in Switzerland, today announced the launch …
We are happy to announce the ability to share infrastructure between accounts in a secure way. You can also define what actions you can take against those shared resources giving you fine grain control. This new functionality will allow you to share various sets of resources with one or more other accounts. We call each policy an Access Control List …
VPNs are in common usage these days and it’s no surprise with the various security threats that are out there. Sometimes you want them to connect to your company’s network securely, other times you may want to connect through a proxy network in order to anonymize your location. With the advent of cloud infrastructure many of our customers want to …
Zürich, Switzerland – July, 2016 – CloudSigma, a Swiss hybrid cloud service provider in partnership with IPC, the leading data center provider in the Philippines, today announced the launch of a native Manila cloud location together. The hunger for cloud-based infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region is growing at a fast pace. Companies nowadays want to build a secured, automated and …
In the past couple of years, Docker has received a tremendous amount of attention. While the concept of containers is hardly anything new (something we at CloudSigma talked more about in this previous post), Docker appears to have become the go-to container manager. To automatically deploy Docker at CloudSigma, you will need: An SSH key. Basic understanding of Docker. The official …
