With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, it’s not surprising companies are worried about the advanced computer infrastructure required to handle their data-intensive workloads. Such infrastructure is not only expensive, but also difficult to maintain. Luckily, the answer to this concern may lie in today’s most innovative technology environment: cloud computing. By taking advantage of powerful cloud computing …
2012: Another Great Year
What do Facebook, Barack Obama and software-defined networks (SDNs) have in common? Normally, the answer would be ‘not much,’ but in 2012, the three had one big commonality: they were everywhere. Facebook acquired Instagram in April, followed by its decision to go public in May; Obama was re-elected as the United States president; and VMware acquired SDN-leader Nicira, cementing the …
Bernino Lind Talks The Terminator, Unbundled Resources and Data Centers on "This Week in Startups"
Recently, our COO, Bernino Lind, sat down with ‘This Week in Startups’ host Jason Calacanis. CloudSigma and the broadcast show know each other well, as we are proud to call the company a customer, enabling the scalability needed to handle the hundreds of thousands of people that download episodes every month. Throughout the 13 minute episode, the pair talked about …
CloudSigma to Present with CERN at Structure:Europe 2012
In just a couple of weeks, CloudSigma will be taking the stage at Structure:Europe 2012, October 16-17, 2012 in Amsterdam, alongside CERN in the panel Large Clouds for Large Colliders: Insights from the CERN Science Cloud, being held at 4:20 p.m. CEST on Wednesday, October 17th. Running data centers is seen as an additional task to the work of research …
Overcoming Resource Over Commit and Bundling Issues in the Cloud
In a recent LinkedIn posting on the IaaS Infrastructure as a Service forum, a conversation developed around the issue of cloud providers using the ability to over commit resources to drive down their prices. Essentially, this means that while a provider may have the resources (CPU, RAM, storage, etc.) to support a specific volume of a computing resource, they know …
The Future of Cloud Computing
Last month, our CTO, Robert Jenkin, spoke at Cordis’ Research in Future Cloud Computing event in Brussels, Belgium. During the event, Robert presented to a diverse audience. He focused on three key areas of research that have the potential to have a major impact on the future of the cloud. Those are-operating systems, ecosystems, and scalable storage. Be sure to …
Startups flourishing through our new offer
Technology startup companies just starting out have a lot of options in terms of IT environments. Do they invest in a proprietary, physical environment, which may very likely become outdated within a matter of one year? Do they look to implement a hybrid approach with some virtual servers hosted on top of their otherwise physical infrastructure? Or, do they move …
SSDs gaining traction in the cloud
GigaOM published an interesting article on Azure embracing SSD storage. It is great to see some movement and product development happening in the IaaS space as ever particularly when it comes to addressing one of the key pain points for many customers in the cloud, namely cloud storage. We have long advocated the need for innovation in cloud storage which …
Let the cloud add real value
Many people, when moving to the cloud, look at it primarily as a means of saving money. Although I concede this impression is growing less prevalent, it still persists. Furthermore, most people taking this cost approach look at the savings purely from physical infrastructure rather than through labour, which represents the majority of real infrastructure costs through management, procurement, monitoring …
Live from Interop: The Next Best Thing in Cloud Storage
This week, we’re at Interop Las Vegas, and the show floor is buzzing with new announcements from exhibiting companies – CloudSigma included! Today, we announced the launch of SigSTORE; the industry’s first SLA-backed distributed SSD storage solution, for our public cloud IaaS. The performance, cost and reliability of cloud storage solutions have traditionally been major barriers to companies’ cloud adoption. …
Propelling the Next Blockbuster Hit
The scene here at the 2012 NAB Show in Las Vegas is stirring up a lot of excitement. All around the exhibition hall, one can catch glimpses of how rapidly new technologies are reshaping the media and entertainment industries. Hundreds of innovative vendors are showcasing and unveiling innovative new and disruptive offerings that are helping to usher in the next …