We’re excited to be participating in two upcoming events next week, where our CEO and co-founder Robert Jenkin will discuss various strategies for cloud computing success. Robert will kick things off at the Cloud4SMB Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday, August 27 at 1:45 p.m. PT with his “Prioritizing Flexibility in the Cloud: A Tracky Success Story” presentation. Joined …
The World Runs on Computing Power: let’s make it more efficient
The world’s economy has long been fueled by trade among regions. Whether it’s iron, automobiles, or oil, it’s this act of exchange that keeps supply and demand balanced, and economies thriving. In this way, products can be purchased from neighboring countries they normally wouldn’t have access to, short of travelling around the globe. With this concept in mind, we recently …
Join our COO at GigaOm Structure: Europe 2013
Our COO Bernino Lind will be speaking at the 2013 GigaOm Structure: Europe September in London. An event where Europe’s leading cloud visionaries convene to analyse technology and product needs for cloud services in Europe. Join our COO to discuss what’s next for the cloud. GigaOm Structure: Europe 2013 Dates 18 – 19 September London, UK Learn more about GigaOm …
Steamrolling Cloud Adoption Obstacles with CloudSigma 2.0
When CloudSigma was founded as a pure-cloud IaaS provider in 2009, much of its value proposition centered around dispelling common gripes companies had with the existing public cloud platforms. This included everything from restrictions placed on application and operating system deployments to inefficient pricing packages and bundled resources. Now, four years later, we’re continuing to knock down common barriers to …
Your privacy is really important to us; this is how we protect you, the customer
With all the revelations coming out of the surveillance programs implemented by the US government and widely used by their government and notable others (the UK but perhaps more?), it has brought to the fore the question where is my data, is it subject to privacy who is looking after it? Or potentially who is looking at it?! I don’t …
CloudSigma organizes the second Hacker News Meetup in Sofia, Bulgaria
Hacker News is a social news site, that Paul Graham put together for Y Combinator (a popular startup incubator). In addition to being a great source of information for what is going on in the tech world, Hacker News has a thriving and very active user base. Because of this, there has been ‘Hacker News Meetups’ organized by the community …
Software-Defined Networks, big-data-and-the-cloud-collide-for-premiere-performance
In 2011, ‘cloud computing’ was the buzz-worthy phrase of the year, with ‘Big Data’ following suit in 2012. As we approach the second half of 2013, it’s clear that software-defined networks (SDNs) have stolen the spotlight as the year’s most successful prominent advancement. However, ‘cloud computing’ and ‘Big Data’ shouldn’t be cast off as prior years’ media darlings just yet, …
The IT professionals road map for navigating the cloud revolution
According to Gartner, total IT spending for public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) will total $72bn between 2012 and 2016 with a CAGR of 42%. Given the current market size this means companies will be moving the majority of that $72bn INTO public cloud services in the coming years. Although the market for server capacity is clearly growing strongly across all delivery mechanisms, …
Named Cool Vendor in European Cloud Computing Market by Gartner
CloudSigma Selected for its Flexible, Utility-Based Compute Resources and Data-Centric Public Cloud Approach CloudSigma named Cool Cloud Vendor Zurich, Switzerland – May 2, 2013 – CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in the European Cloud Computing Market, 2013</i [1] report, authored by Gartner Research …
On the Road Again! CloudSigma Wraps Up April U.S. Events Tour
At trade shows, one of the most common questions people get asked is where they live. Well, for CloudSigma this month, the best answer may be “on an airplane!” April was jam-packed with events as our executive team traveled all over the U.S., speaking at some of the most influential conferences and networking with the biggest thought leaders in the …
Europe’s giant science cloud: give people data and good things happen
Big Science in Europe has been busy and here at CloudSigma we’ve been heavily involved in helping to build a federated cloud platform that can address the needs of Big Science. It is something I’m personally very excited about as it holds then potential to unleash large-scale computing for some of the world’s thorniest problems including genetic research, climate change, …
Recent GigaOM Webinar: Hybrid Clouds, Cloud Security and Blending Customer Requirements
Last month, our CEO Robert Jenkin joined other industry thought leaders, including Paul Miller, Jo Maitland and Dana Gardner, in the GigaOM webinar: How to make Big Data Work in the Cloud. As Big Data and cloud go hand-in-hand and are often discussed simultaneously, the four panelists had a lot to cover, including hybrid clouds, cloud security and the importance …