health services in the cloud

Deploying Agile IT Health Services in the Cloud: Where Performance & Scalability Matters

Customer Profile AvisoIT is a niche IT provider in Western Australia, providing specialized services for Medical and Dental practices throughout the state. It supplies and supports a full suite of IT products and services. Thus ensuring clients are able to have a single point of contact for all IT needs. The Challenge Aviso IT is a provider of customized IT …

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Earth Observation Data & Processing in the Cloud: Earthquake & Volcanic Hazard Analysis by the European Space Agency

Customer Profile ESA RSS (Research and Service Support) is a service provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. ESA RSS service provides resources to support …

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How a Successful Software Vendor Transformed their Product & Business Moving from On-prem to SaaS with CloudSigma

Customer Profile BOC Group is an international leader in software and consultancy providing products and services for Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (GRC). BOC Group implements the management strategy of its clients and creates value for its business and IT. Headquartered in Vienna, BOC Group has subsidiaries in Germany, Spain, Ireland, …

How to Sync Subscriptions to Fall on the Same Day

How to Sync Subscriptions to Fall on the Same Day

CloudSigma offers to users the possibility to make as many subscriptions as they wish for the exact amount of resources they need. Your can configure your subscriptions in a flexible manner along with everything else on CloudSigma. The idea is you can flexibly combine burst usage with subscribed resources to closely match your requirements over time. Most of our customers …

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CloudSigma Expands Public Cloud to Melbourne, its Second Australian Location

CloudSigma’s Dual Australian Locations Improve Customers’ Geographical Load Balancing, Latency Performance and Data Redundancy for a More Seamless Public Cloud Experience Zurich, Switzerland – March, 2017 CloudSigma is an international, customer-centric, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider. Today, it has announced its expansion to a second Australian location at the VOCUS Communications data centre in Melbourne. With locations now spanning both the east …

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How to Avoid Billing Outages at CloudSigma

When starting to use any new platform there’s a lot to take in so we wanted to share some top tips on how to ensure the smooth running of your account and minimize hassle and potential disruption from funding and maintaining your account so you can concentrate on the important stuff. In this blog post, we talk you through some …

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 …

financial services in the cloud

Learn How a Financial Services Provider is Able to Focus on their Core Business & Save Cost in the Cloud

Customer Profile GENIO GROUP develops services for the financial sector focusing on risk assessment, fraud prevention, support in compliance certification attainment processes, banking, fiscal management of credit, legal support and management of litigation. The company was founded with the goal of providing innovative tools with a high technical value and content. Typical use cases include due diligence processes and credit …

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ECMWF Distributes Big Weather Forecast Data Using CloudSigma’s cloud service

Customer Profile The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organisation with 34 state members. It is both a research institute and a 24/7 operational service. It produces and disseminates numerical weather predictions to its Member States. This data is fully available to the national meteorological services in the Member States. The Centre also offers a …

Update rDNS and PTR records

How to Dynamically Update and Manage Reverse DNS/PTR Records for Your CloudSigma Infrastructure

It is now possible to dynamically manage your PTR records on CloudSigma’s DNS servers. This new functionality provides greater flexibility in setting up your applications in our cloud. We now accept dynamic updates of PTR records within our zones. This means that our dynamic DNS servers (DDNS) will accept updates directly from individual IP addresses from the networks used within …

Understanding CPU Steal Time in the Cloud

Are We Stealing from You? Understanding CPU Steal Time in the Cloud

Customers often ask about CPU steal time. Especially those that use the CPUs heavily and for whom it’s a key performance criteria. There are quite a few differences in the setup and behaviour of CPUs and cores between physical and virtual environments. Even between cloud providers there are setups differences that make like for like comparison on the face of …