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Cloud computing infrastructure makes it easy to provision resources, but additional value brings the cost optimization that comes with it. Cost optimization in the cloud is a very wide topic with many areas of impact. However, our goal is to list a few key ones below to help you start. Better capacity management With the ability to combine longer-term purchasing …
DRFortress is the largest and the only carrier-neutral datacenter and cloud services provider operating in Honolulu, Hawaii. It provides network-neutral colocation and cloud services to enterprises, content companies, system integrators, wireless service providers and ISPs. The mission of DRFortress is to manage and maintain world-class facilities so that customers can focus on their core business. It acquired the original facility …
A Shift to the Cloud Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is growing at an exponential rate and is likely to reach USD 126 billion in 2020. Not confined to the SME sector or non-production workloads, these figures illustrate a continued trend of migration to the cloud including by larger enterprises with critical customer-facing production workloads. The shift towards the cloud presents …
CloudSigma is currently participating in a Horizon 2020 research and innovation project called COLA (Cloud Orchestration at the Level of Application). You can read a general overview of the COLA project here, or visit the official project website here. CloudSigma’s primary contribution to the project is to manage the testbed and production of cloud infrastructure and to provide expertise into …
Customer Profile Our long-standing client is a software development company providing mostly online and offline gaming solutions to multiple customers around the world. They develop their products in an innovative, dynamic and collaborative environment. The continued satisfaction of their vertically market focused customer base results from the constant improvement of services through rapid analyzing, testing and development keeping their offerings …
The DITAS project is a Research and Innovation Action funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon2020 Programme. The project started in January 2017 and will conclude in December 2019. The consortium includes 5 industry partners (including CloudSigma) and 3 research organisations from 6 European countries. The coordinator of the DITAS project is Dr. David García Pérez, from …
Customer Profile Bertschi AG is a Swiss transport company that provides logistics and transport for the chemical industry. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Durrenasch, Switzerland. Bertschi is a member of the European Chemical Transport Association. While the operational focus of Bertschi is on the European market, the company is expanding worldwide and has 75 subsidiaries …
The COLA project is an Innovation Action funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon2020 Programme. The project started in January 2017 and will conclude in June 2019. The consortium includes 10 industry partners (including CloudSigma) and 4 research organisations from 6 European countries. The coordinator of the COLA project is Dr. Tamas Kiss, from the University of …
Zurich, Switzerland – October, 2017 – we are happy to announce that CloudSigma, a leading European infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider with headquarters in Switzerland and European subsidiaries in Germany and Poland, has been awarded a GÉANT Infrastructure-as-a-Service Framework Agreement after successfully meeting the selection criteria in the call for competition in late 2016. With this new partnership, CloudSigma is able to …
A hybrid cloud is the combination of features of two or more cloud models – private, community, and public. Consequently, it provides versatility, user-friendly and cost-effective features of the public cloud. It offers greater control and security of a private cloud and that is why it is often the preferred choice. Another driving factor is that companies prefer to have …
Cloud computing continues to advance every aspect of businesses and one such popular application of it is for boosting the resilience of entire IT systems against disasters. This growth is worth noting as Gartner predicts that by 2018, the number of organizations using cloud-based disaster recovery or the Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) model will exceed the number of …
No doubt, Cloud Computing has brought benefits to the IT industry with its awesome innovations. Cloud adoption is transforming markets and industries every single day. As both small and large firms increase their knowledge of basic cloud computing services, many are migrating to the public cloud to house more complex and flexible business applications. Some companies have already advanced when …
