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The reality is that the vast majority of companies are going to need to adopt a hybrid cloud approach. Or to incorporate existing and new technologies and systems. But what is hybrid cloud really and what strategies should novice companies consider? I sat down for a Q&A and discussed hybrid cloud approaches with our partners IP Converge in Manila.This is …
CloudSigma is proud to announce the launch of its cloud offering at the DARZ data centre in Darmstadt near Frankfurt, Germany. CloudSigma now serves the key German market with a native deployment. Zurich, Switzerland – September, 2016 – Following its strategy of geographical expansion during 2016, CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with headquarters in Switzerland, today announced the launch …
We are happy to announce the ability to share infrastructure between accounts in a secure way. You can also define what actions you can take against those shared resources giving you fine grain control. This new functionality will allow you to share various sets of resources with one or more other accounts. We call each policy an Access Control List …
VPNs are in common usage these days and it’s no surprise with the various security threats that are out there. Sometimes you want them to connect to your company’s network securely, other times you may want to connect through a proxy network in order to anonymize your location. With the advent of cloud infrastructure many of our customers want to …
Zürich, Switzerland – July, 2016 – CloudSigma, a Swiss hybrid cloud service provider in partnership with IPC, the leading data center provider in the Philippines, today announced the launch of a native Manila cloud location together. The hunger for cloud-based infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region is growing at a fast pace. Companies nowadays want to build a secured, automated and …
In the past couple of years, Docker has received a tremendous amount of attention. While the concept of containers is hardly anything new (something we at CloudSigma talked more about in this previous post), Docker appears to have become the go-to container manager. To automatically deploy Docker at CloudSigma, you will need: An SSH key. Basic understanding of Docker. The official …
A robust cloud deployment means having a well thought out data management strategy. At CloudSigma we offer free functionality such as snapshotting as well as tiered storage. It’s therefore possible to implement a great data management framework to ensure strong protection for the availability and integrity of the data you store in the cloud. In this post we share with …
At CloudSigma our infrastructure provides unbundled resources which gives a lot of flexibility. It means you can increase a drive’s size as you need to. The problem for the most people is however that when the drive size is increased at the infrastructure layer in the cloud, the filesystem is not expanded automatically and you have to do this manually …
Zurich, Switzerland – May, 2016 – Following their strategy of geographical expansion during 2016, CloudSigma, today announced the launch of their first public cloud location in Australia. Based out of NextDC’s Tier III certified P1 data centre in Perth, the west coast point of presence is the first in a planned Australian roll-out. CloudSigma can now offer low latency cloud …
You can use bash to automate many things for your cloud servers. At CloudSigma we use bash scripts with many of our library images to automate useful features. In this post we share with you how you can use bash to import SSH keys automatically on boot-up of your cloud servers. You can achieve this by combining bash scripts with …
Well, as you know, GNU & Linux are awesome. Why? Because we have Control Groups (CGroups)! In this post you’ll learn how to: Protect critical system processes for both memory and CPU. A walkthrough video implementing cgroups on a live running server Set up an example implementation of CGroups or SystemD slices. Keeping Everything under Control You can use CGroups …
***This competition is now closed*** At CloudSigma we love good design when we see it and, with many of us on the road frequently, we also appreciate having a powerful phone at our fingertips. That’s why when we got hold of the latest OnePlus2 64GB edition and a couple of invites we immediately thought it would be fun to give …
