RDS Licenses

CloudSigma How To Series: RDS Licenses

In this tutorial of CloudSigma How-to Series we will walk you through the Remote Desktop License feature needed for all Microsoft Windows servers licensed through the platform. We have now enabled the ability to purchase Microsoft RDS licenses via the Webapp. According to the Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA), all users within the Windows Server operating system need to …

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New Data Centre Trends & the Cloud-as-a-Service Solution

Growing threats to security, new data protection regulations, and unexpected disruptions have increased businesses’ demands for reliable infrastructure. As a result, the adoption of cloud has grown. It offers competitive advantages such as cost savings, business efficiencies, unprecedented security and high availability options. Gartner predicts that the global public cloud revenue will grow to $278bn by 2021. This indicates a …

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Cloud-First Policy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Information Technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia In recent years, the information technology sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has developed rapidly. The fast-paced changes have prompted the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to issue policies and regulations that further facilitate the digital transformation of the country. The initiatives are a part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision …

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Why a development agency needs the cloud to grow sustainably

Customer Profile The International Trade Centre (ITC) is the only development agency that is fully dedicated to supporting the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This means that the agency enables SMEs in developing and transition economies to become more competitive and connect to international markets for trade and investment, thus raising incomes and creating job opportunities, especially for …

Digital Asset Management Cloud Platform

Four advantages of cloud Digital Asset Management (DAM)

What is DAM? This blog post outlines the four main benefits of hosting a Digital Asset Management (DAM) business in the cloud. In order to shed light on why the cloud is the perfect fit for a DAM company, we will start with an overview of the nature of the DAM industry. Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a system that enables the …

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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 …

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Run your own VPN server under Docker with OpenVPN Access Server

In this tutorial, I will be setting up an Open VPN server under Docker with CloudSigma. With CloudSigma’s cloud locations spread all over the globe, you can create a server in any of them and access the content from there. Creating the machine First, I am creating a machine with the following resources: 20 GHz CPU 16 GB RAM 20 …

How to use vnStat and iftop

How to use vnStat and iftop to monitor data consumption within a VM

In the generation of cloud computing, virtual machines (VMs) have become very common, while the usage of physical machines has started to gradually decrease. In this post, we will introduce the tools, ‘vnStat’ and ‘iftop,’ which we can use to monitor data consumption in a VM. First, I am creating a machine with the following resources: 20 GHz CPU 16 …

Cloud Cost Efficiency

You have a web crawling service? See how CloudSigma can match your scalability and cost efficiency requirements

Customer Profile Grepsr is a leading cloud powered web scraping service. It provides custom solutions to extract public data for non-technical individuals and teams that need data extracted, aggregated, and organized so they can focus on more important things. Its managed platform helps companies with everything they need to capture, normalize and effortlessly bring data into their systems. The data …

Logistics cloud

Discover what a SaaS solution company in global logistics needs from a cloud provider

Customer Profile Our customer is a worldwide leading supplier of environmentally friendly production, transportation, building and lighting technologies. With integrated automation technologies and comprehensive industry-specific solutions, the company increases the productivity, efficiency and flexibility of its customers in the fields of industry and infrastructure. This customer is a prime example of efficient and flexible cloud solution tailored for logistics services. …