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Due to the recent discussions about the physical data locations in the cloud, people are now openly discussing security issues. The EU and its member states are still trying to find a balance between national and pan-European legal requirements. And to work out a common strategy towards data treatment. The choice of keeping data “at home” has been gaining popularity …
=Understanding data characteristics and the requirements for each characteristic is essential in choosing the right cloud storage strategy and deployment model. This post will help you understand how to best define your data characteristics and requirements as a starting point to implementing a successful data strategy. Let’s have a look at those characteristics and requirements. Data Characteristics 1. Performance …
Long gone are the days when MongoDB was the ‘new kid on the block’. These days, it has evolved to become the go-to solution for many people who are leaving relational databases behind. In this article, I’m not going to make the argument for why you should use MongoDB over {insert other NoSQL database}, or even why you should use …
Last week I gave a talk at CloudExpo Europe in London. Some people asked for the presentation deck for this, so here it is. The title for the talk was “Server evolution: From mainframes to containers and PaaS.” The presentation was also recorded. Once the video becomes available, we’ll post that too.
What CoreOS is in their own words: CoreOS is a new Linux distribution. The creators improved it, so that it can provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks. The strategies and architectures that influence it allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience. CoreOS is arguably one of the most talked-about …
Lack of education is rated as one of the top ten global issues. Young generations are lost in the dynamics of their environment and sometimes miss the importance of high-quality education and the quality of life improvements they can achieve through this. However, there are organizations out there that support young students in their educational path and mentor them. One …
The complexity of cloud infrastructures makes it difficult for customers to assess the security level of their cloud provider in any great detail. So, below is a list of the key security measures which CloudSigma as a major public cloud IaaS provider has taken to keep you, the customer, safe. These sit alongside the structural measures that keep customer cloud …
Last week Syncsort shared in their blog an interview with our Head of Business Development Viktor Petersson, taken from Mark Underwood who covers big data and cybersecurity. One of the topics that popped up was about the partnership of CloudSigma with BlackLotus, which allows us to offer more tailored DDoS protection service to customers. The conversation led them as well …
We want to be able to support smaller customers who like our approach to cloud and want to get started. That’s how we came up with the concept of bundling a package of free resources for every paying CloudSigma customer. What’s behind the Free Resource Tier? The free tier is live across most of our cloud locations* so if you …
A while ago, we introduced the ability to take snapshots of a drive. This is a very handy feature that allows you to quickly and efficiently save drive states even on live systems. Thanks to ZFS, automatic snapshots will only consume the delta between the current state and where the snapshot was taken. This means that if your original drive …
In order to meet with the performance needs of our customers, while maintaining a stable infrastructure, CloudSigma needs a way to control the resource usage of each virtual machine. We cannot allow for people to use more resources than they have specified because that will affect every customer’s performance. The first step in achieving this was to implement a smart …
