As a customer-centric public cloud provider, we have not only designed our platform to meet the demands of even the most complex and varied workloads, but have also made it a point to listen to our customers’ biggest pain points and adapt our cloud infrastructure accordingly. It’s with this in mind that we introduced our direct private patching technology and …
CompatibleOne, jclouds and LibCloud now support CloudSigma’s IaaS cloud
We try hard to make our platform as accessible and open as possible. This is an ongoing effort of continual improvement so we’re happy to announce a number of recent initiatives that back up these commitments. As you probably know, we already allow you to upload and download your disk images from our cloud making migration into and away from …
NTP Amplification Attacks, the latest DDoS weapon (and how to protect yourself from it)
During the last few months, we’ve seen an increased amount of NTP amplification attacks. It’s an attack technique, similar to the previous wave of DNS amplification attacks, mostly used by script kiddies (but also by black hats) to take sites/servers offline. The technique behind of the attack is pretty simple; using public NTP servers, the attacker sends a request and …
Join us at our kick-off party at StartupHouse
Some of the best inventions came from peoples’ garages. But, having a creative space to fuel innovation is often what can take companies and their solutions to the next level. And, that’s precisely what StartupHouse hopes to provide. StartupHouse offers a unique community for startup companies and entrepreneurs to come together under one roof and support the early-stages of their …
Spice up your servers with Salt
In recent times, the automation tool Salt has gained a lot of attention. In fact, Salt, along with Ansible, are seen by many as refreshing alternatives to the more established automation tools Puppet and Chef. Recently, a new tool was added to the Salt stack named salt-ssh, which enables you to manage servers without having to install any tools on …
CloudSigma API v2.0 is now supported in jclouds
This is a guest post by Ignasi Barrera, a PMC member on the Apache jclouds® project and active contributor to jclouds. What is jclouds? Apache jclouds® is a cloud agnostic library for the JVM that enables developers to access over 30 cloud providers using one API. It provides common interfaces to access different services in the cloud, allowing users can …
CloudSigma at Cloud Expo Europe 2014
For CloudSigma the last week of February is being jam-packed with events. Our executive team traveled over Cloudscape VI, where our CEO and co-founder Robert Jenkin showed how, with flexible, innovative cloud providers, cloud computing myths will be rebuked. Using a real-world use case Robert explained Deutsche Börse’s journey to the public cloud for its Virtualized Private Simulation project alongside …
CloudSigma API v2.0 is now supported in Libcloud
This is a guest post by Tomaz Muraus. Tomaz Muraus is a project chair and a PMC member on the Apache Libcloud project. In his free time, he loves writing code, contributing to the open-source projects, advocating for software freedom and cycling. Be sure to check out his website at http://www.tomaz.me. What is Libcloud? Apache Libcloud is an open-source Apache …
2013 Recap: CloudSigma 2.0, Gartner Cool Vendor and More!
It seems like just yesterday I was reflecting on 2012 and our involvement with Helix Nebula, the launch of our Media Services Ecosystem, various , and numerous other 2012 achievements. It’s hard to imagine it’s been a full year since then! But, 2013 proved to be just as busy, if not busier, than 2012 and we’re excited to conclude it …
CloudSigma announced as a Cloud Trailblazer Finalist in the Tech Trailblazing Awards
The global start-up initiative for enterprise information technology Tech Trailblazers Awards, yesterday announced the opening of voting for shortlisted Tech Trailblazing finalists. The first annual awards program seek to recognize true innovators in the following enterprise technology areas: Big Data, Cloud, Information Security, Mobile, Networking, Storage, Sustainable IT, Virtualization and Emerging Markets for the technology and five new regional awards …
The Cloud and the Industrial Revolution: Commoditization and Innovation
Recently, I was featured in AllThingsD, discussing the opportunities and innovations still to come from cloud computing, likening the state of the cloud industry to the Industrial Revolution. Similar to how the Industrial Revolution completely changed the entire world’s economy, so, too, will the cloud. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing and the production of goods was comparatively inefficient and …
Web Evolution: from CGI to Websockets (and how it will help you better monitor your cloud infrastructure)
In the past few years, websockets have become more or less a standard component in all modern web applications, but why is that and how did we get here? More importantly, how can websockets help you monitor your cloud infrastructure more effectively? Due to the technical nature of this topic, it is possible to dive very deep into the details. …