Today there was a major security announcement that affected a large number of online services. In short, if you’re running a website that is using OpenSSL (i.e. most websites that are secured by SSL) you are likely to be affected. You can read more about the bug here. You can also check if you’re exposed to this vulnerability using this …
We’re at NAB! Easing Security Fears for Media Collaboration
No one understands the phrase ‘time is money’ more than the media industry. If a production isn’t finished on schedule because of editing delays, it can result in a hemorrhage of finances. Collaborating on a project under this kind of pressure used to be extremely stressful, because, before the cloud, it often required media companies to physically fly disks around …
Using Ansible with CloudSigma
In a recent article I wrote about how you can use Salt to manage your CloudSigma infrastructure. However, another tool mentioned in that article was Ansible, which is in many ways similar to Salt. Since we’re all about choice here at CloudSigma, I thought it was only fair to also provide Ansible-users (or aspiring users) with an easy way to …
Cloud Giant IBM Grows Larger with Inflexible Solutions for the Enterprise
IBM announced in January that they have invested $1.2 billion to launch 15 new data centers across the U.S., China, Hong Kong, India, Canada and the U.K. to increase their global public cloud services, as an alternative to Amazon. But, is this really what the industry and enterprises need? IBM has had cloud offerings across Europe, including Switzerland, for some …
Build your own PaaS (with Dokku)
One of the most popular PaaS providers today is Heroku. Heroku, along with other PaaS providers like Engine Yard is loved by developers because it makes the deployment of a new application extremely fast and simple. It’s not hard that most developers would rather write code than setting up and troubleshoot servers. So it’s not hard to figure out why …
CloudSigma a 3x Finalist
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 …