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Cloud Highlights 2014

Some gems and useful links from 2014

Sometimes running computing infrastructure can feel a little like that lizard running on water and all too often a callback to 2010 and the Liquid Mountaineering team! That’s why we’ve continued our strategy of giving customers a virtual data center to manage their cloud infrastructure easily. Giving you full control and flexibility over your computing by focusing on improving our …

Bittorrent Sync

How to securely use BitTorrent Sync for backups

A while back I wrote a guest post on BitTorrent’s blog about how to use BitTorrent Sync as an alternative to cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Box. As a result, this post is an expansion of that post that provides more clear step-by-step instructions on how to securely deploy BitTorrent Sync. Security notes First, since the focus of …

CloudSigma teams up with Sheffield Hallam University

One of the main challenges that the cloud industry is facing today is the lack of education around how the public cloud works and what the best practices are. After the successful ESA Space Apps Challenge we attended earlier this year, we had the honor to be invited as a sponsor of a new module on cloud computing offered to …

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An introduction to server provisioning with CloudInit

This month we announced a very exciting partnership with Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu. Above all, the main element in this partnership is the introduction of full CloudInit support between the CloudSigma cloud and Ubuntu. An introduction to CloudInit If you’re not familiar with CloudInit, it is the industry standard for bootstrapping cloud servers. To clarify,  if you are using …

CloudSME

Successful End to the First Year of CloudSME

Introduction Small-to-medium sized manufacturing and engineering enterprises considering product development or process optimization simulation find it prohibitively expensive to access products and services that require a considerable commitment of time alongside a high financial barrier to entry. The use of simulation requires expertise, infrastructure procurement, and ongoing maintenance costs. In addition, it requires software licensing and consultancy fees which often …

PSA: Patch your servers against CVE-2014-6271

Today a vulnerability was discovered in Bash, the shell used on most Linux distributions. We strongly recommend that you patch your servers as soon as possible against this. Debian / Ubuntu [bash light=”true”] $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y bash [/bash] CentOS / RedHat Enterprise Linux / Fedora [bash light=”true”] $ yum update bash [/bash] Make sure …