Hydro66 cloud

CloudSigma Joins Forces with Hydro66 to Deliver a 100% Green Cloud Solution

Boden, Sweden, August 13, 2020 – CloudSigma is proud to announce a new partnership with Hydro66 – a green cloud infrastructure company located in Sweden. The two companies, together with HPE, have launched the world’s lowest carbon footprint cloud – the H66cloud. Hydro66 benefits from some of the EU’s lowest cost 100% green energy. It provides cost-effective cloud and colocation …

Copernicus Hackathon

CloudSigma Sponsors Second Edition Copernicus Hackathon Sofia 2020

CloudSigma is excited to sponsor the Second Edition Copernicus Hackathon Sofia 2020 that is going to take place virtually on April 24-May 8, 2020 as a part of Space Week Sofia 2020. CloudSigma is coming back for a second year in a row, as we were proud sponsors of the first edition of the Copernicus Hackathon Sofia. The Sofia Hackathon …

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CloudSigma’s measures to ensure continued operations throughout the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) global crisis

With the continued global impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) escalating, our CEO is sharing a short message to explain some of the measures we at CloudSigma have put in place to ensure continued operational integrity of our services to our customers. The key takeaways are: We have implemented home working already across all our locations worldwide Critical services are delivered from …

oil & gas industry cloud

Part 1: 5 key areas proving the oil & gas industry should embrace the cloud [FREE e-book included]

How does cloud computing benefit the oil & gas industry? This is the first post in a two-part series that will delve into how oil & gas companies can benefit from cloud infrastructure and why CloudSigma is the right cloud partner for the oil & gas industry. The first part of the series takes a look into the specifics of …

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An overview of CloudSigma Microsoft licensing framework

Here is an explanation of CloudSigma’s Microsoft licensing framework. Microsoft Windows Server This is licensed based on virtual cores. They are available for purchase on a subscription or burst usage basis. For all versions of Windows server we now use the Microsoft Windows Datacenter Edition from a licensing perspective. Microsoft SQL Server SQL Server is licensed based on pairs of …

GÉANT and OCRE voucher program

How to Use the OCRE Voucher Code with CloudSigma

About CloudSigma CloudSigma has recently been selected as one of the cloud partners for the initial phase of the OCRE project – the voucher program. For those of you who never heard of us – CloudSigma is one of the most customizable cloud providers on the market. Its focus is on open design and flexibility with regards to computing deployments. …

CloudSigma and the OCRE voucher program

CloudSigma selected for the initial voucher program of the OCRE project

The OCRE project The Open Clouds for Research Environments project (OCRE) was launched in 2019. Its aim is to bring together cloud providers, Earth Observation (EO) organizations, and the research and education community in order to accelerate cloud adoption. Cloud-based services offer the European research community a wealth of powerful tools. Unfortunately, for many researchers, these are currently out of …

Software Defined Networking

Introducing Next Generation Software Defined Networking

Imagine a fully integrated tool enabling software defined multi-tiered networking with integrating firewalling, quality of service, NAT, VPN and more. Combine this with an ability to switch packets at multi-gigabit speeds and an affordable price and you have CloudSigma’s new software defined network platform. Previously only achievable by integrating a combination of expensive proprietary hardware and software tools, CloudSigma’s new …

Earth Observation Sofia Hackathon

CloudSigma Sponsors Copernicus Hackathon in Sofia

CloudSigma is excited to sponsor the Copernicus Hackathon Sofia that is going to take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on 19-21 April, 2019. The organisers of the event are the RISK-SPACE-TRANSFER Aerospace Technology Transfer Office (RST-TTO) along with the Center for Excellence “Universities for Science, Informatics and Technologies in e-Society” (UNITe). It is Bulgaria’s first hackathon on the European Earth Observation …

Tokyo Cloud Launch

CloudSigma launches a Tokyo based cloud with IPS

CloudSigma is proud to announce that it has joined forces with Japanese Telecom industry leader IPS to deliver a Tokyo-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. For the past 20 years, IPS has committed itself to building a robust telecommunication infrastructure and has grown into a full-fledged global company. The new partnership with CloudSigma will further allow IPS to provide public cloud IaaS …

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CloudSigma Launches its Second Cloud in Switzerland

Since its launch in 2009 CloudSigma has been building a global network of cloud locations. This year we celebrate the launch of the company’s second Swiss cloud platform in the highly secure data center of Safe Host 2 (SH2) in Gland. The flexibility, adaptability and unparalleled performance of the CloudSigma platform find an ideal home at the highly secure data …

North America cloud

Better performance at lower prices – our U.S. cloud locations

We recently underwent a major infrastructure, connectivity and pricing upgrade to our cloud locations in mainland U.S. So we created this blog post to share the details about why we made that change, how you can take advantage of it and finally some of the really great things it means for our cloud going forward. Improved performance After introducing Intel …