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 …
Automate LetsEncrypt SSL Certificate Renewals for NginX
For those in a rush: this blog post shows you how to use free SSL certificates and have then renew perpetually (in theory) so they are near zero hassle to use. It is always nice to automate things. This saves you a lot of time and lets you concentrate on the things that actually matter and make a difference. Renewing …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …