CloudSigma joins DirectCLOUD

CloudSigma joins the DirectCLOUD network at DE-CIX Internet Exchange

CloudSigma now offers direct connectivity via the DE-CIX Internet Exchange. End users can benefit from secure, dedicated cloud network access through any DE-CIX members to CloudSigma.

Frankfurt, Germany – March, 2017

Following the opening of its German cloud location in September 2016, CloudSigma joined the DirectCLOUD network and now offers direct connectivity via the DE-CIX Internet Exchange. The DE-CIX platform operates in Frankfurt and has existed for 20 years. Its main goal is to connect a growing number of Cloud Service providers, Internet Service providers and end users. From March on end-users will benefit from secure, dedicated cloud network access through any DE-CIX members to CloudSigma. Above all, CloudSigma users will be allowed to create a unified hybrid computing environment between in-house and public cloud infrastructure in a very secure way.

CloudSigma’s local German offering brings its highly flexible customer defined cloud environment to the German market targeting companies requiring high performance and a high degree of control over their cloud environments. Since security in the cloud is an aspect of highest importance for German companies, with this new partnership CloudSigma is able to offer its customers and any DE-CIX members secure, dedicated cloud network access.

“Multi-location infrastructure setups are certainly the norm as are hybrid strategies. So, this new collaboration with DE-CIX extends our ability to offer secure, seamlessly integrated cloud infrastructure to our customers at an affordable price.”Robert Jenkin, CEO and co-founder of CloudSigma

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The service of DirectCLOUD enables Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to access multiple cloud service providers with one connection. In addition, through this functionality, CSPs are able to offer their enterprise customers a variety of cloud solutions in a fast, simple and cost effective way. Via the more than 700 networks connected to DE-CIX Frankfurt, more than 26,000 enterprises with own IP address blocks can benefit from this service.

“We are very pleased that CloudSigma is participating in the DirectCLOUD Partner Program. The flexible IaaS packages enrich our offer for Internet Service Providers and end customers. CloudSigma takes a hybrid cloud approach, which is becoming more and more important for future project. This is the start of a very promising partnership.”Harald A. Summa, CEO of DE-CIX

As part of the network of cloud service providers on board, CloudSigma together with the leading Full IT Service Provider, DARZ, offers several unique advantages to end customers. Certainly, the most imporant ones are the flexible resource configuration and instant scalability. In other words, we can enable a single hybrid environment for our customers  (run any x86/x64 OS/applications unmodified in the cloud). Also, we continuously broaden our feature set, offering features such as Backup and Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) in a highly accessible way. To sum up, CloudSigma offers the highest price-performance ratio on the market and supports its end-users by optimizing their IT strategy without compromising quality.

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About DE-CIX

DE-CIX provides premium Internet Exchange services and operates several carrier and datacenter-neutral Exchanges. Not to mention that the company serves 1000+ carriers, ISPs and content networks from 60+ countries. This includes all leading international players in various metro markets in Europe, the Middle East and North America. For instance, DE-CIX Frankfurt is the world’s leading Internet Exchange with 5.6 Terabits per second of peak traffic. For more information, please visit www.de-cix.net.

About CloudSigma

CloudSigma is a pure-cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider that enables the digital  economy through its highly-available, flexible, enterprise-class hybrid cloud servers and cloud hosting solutions. Its locations can be found in Europe, the U.S., Asia and beyond. CloudSigma is the most customizable cloud provider on the market, giving customers full control over their cloud. It also allows them to eliminate restrictions on how users deploy their computing resources. With CloudSigma, customers can provision processing, storage, networks and other fundamental computing resources as they please. Also, to extend private networks out of existing infrastructure and elastically into CloudSigma’s IaaS cloud to create easy to manage and transparent hybrid cloud solutions. For more information, please visit blog.cloudsigma.com or find the company on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

Press Contacts

For DE-CIX:
Carsten Titt
Senior Manager Global Public Relations
+49 69 1730902-130
media@de-cix.net

For CloudSigma:
Vanya Nikova
Manager of Customer Development
sales@cloudsigma.com

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About Vanya Nikova

Vanya is leading the Global Customer Development Team at CloudSigma. Beside that, she is responsible for a number of big data and big science partners and projects at CloudSigma. She has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim, Germany with 10 years of work experience in sales and consulting services.