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 …

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Find out what specific features are required by teachers looking for cloud services in education

Partner Profile The RESTENA (“Réseau Téléinformatique de l’Education Nationale et de la Recherche”) Foundation operates the National Research and Education Network in Luxembourg. It supports scientific development by providing and maintaining high quality network infrastructure and services for the needs of education and research in Luxembourg. To achieve its mission, a national network infrastructure, the RESTENA network, has been set …

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Installing Hadoop on a Single Node in Five Simple Steps

Welcome to our guide on installing Hadoop in five simple steps. To start with, the Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather …

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CloudSigma’s Public Cloud Fuels NASA Space Apps Hackathon Since 2013

Palo Alto, Calif. –September, 2018– CloudSigma is excited to sponsor NASA incubator innovation program, Space Apps for the sixth year in a row! This year’s edition, Space Apps Challenge hackathon 2018 will take place October 19-21. Space Apps is an international hackathon that occurs over 48 hours in cities around the world. It is designed to pull together technologists, scientists, …

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CloudSigma launches a Dublin based Cloud with Servecentric

CloudSigma is proud to announce that it has partnered with Irish Managed Hosting & IT Services provider Servecentric to launch a Dublin-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, Servecentric Enterprise Cloud. Servecentric has more than 15 years experience providing Data Center solutions such as colocation, connectivity and managed IT services. The new collaboration with CloudSigma will further Servecentric to provide …

CloudSigma and Apptus Platform

CloudSigma and Apptus Platform partner to offer IT consultancy to APAC clients

CloudSigma has entered a business cooperation partnership with software company Apptus Platform, aimed at expanding the business reach and service capabilities of both companies. Apptus Platform, which operates in New Zealand, Australia, and in the Philippines, has recently re-launched its brand and introduced its expanded array of services to the market. Apptus Platform specializes in the provision of a comprehensive …

HPE cloud services

CloudSigma with HPE Delivers Innovative Cloud Services around the Globe

​CloudSigma entered into an agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) at the beginning of 2017 to enable leading IT service providers, data centers and telecommunication operators around the globe to deliver best-in-class cloud services to end-customers. CloudSigma and HPE’s collaboration offers a unique public cloud platform to IT service providers, data centers and telecommunication operators under the Cloud-as-a-Service model (CaaS). …

cloud solutions for energy analytics

Innovative startups require on-demand scalability at best prices

Customer Profile BEN Energy develops and implements data analytics based software solutions for energy providers to quantify, predict and affect customer behavior. Their solutions are based on their so-called Energy Analytics Platform. It allows utilities to succeed in tomorrow‘s customer-centric energy markets through data-driven decision making. It also utilizes behavioral psychology to make energy efficiency entertaining and simple. The company …

Distributed operating system

Setting up the distributed operating system (DC/OS)

According to dcos.io, DC/OS is a distributed operating system based on the Apache Mesos distributed systems kernel. Having a distributed operating system allows users to enable the management of multiple machines as if they were a single computer. In addition, it automates resource management, schedules process placement, facilitates inter-process communication, and simplifies the installation and management of distributed services. Its …

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See why Germany offers the best conditions for cloud computing

Recently, the Software Alliance (BSA) released its annual “Global Cloud Computing Scorecard” for 2018. It cites Germany as the country with the best environment and optimal conditions for cloud computing. The study compared a total of 24 countries and Germany took first place ahead of Japan and the USA. The indisputable advantages of Germany as an environment for cloud computing …

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DRaaS – the Perfect Companion to the Cloud

Cloud Computing infrastructure has brought numerous advancements for big and small enterprises alike. Those include cost optimization, scalability, agility and many other opportunities that enable businesses to stand out from the crowd. Introduction to DRaaS One such important aspect that is recently gaining popularity is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). According to Techopedia, DRaaS is defined as a “cloud …