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FinaThis blog post will show you how to use your RaspberryPI to drive an always on screen displaying an autorefreshing web page of your choice. If you are like us you want to have things like sales, pending customer tickets, system status’ etc. easily visible in your office; it’s very valuable. After this post you’ll be a ninja at quickly …
Doubling your performance We recently underwent a major infrastructure upgrade to our cloud in Zurich. And we’ll be rolling out similar upgrades across all our locations through the rest of 2015. One of the key elements to that upgrade was moving away from AMD based processors to Intel ones. As CEO I wanted to take this opportunity to write to …
One of the greatest advantages of being the CEO at CloudSigma is the opportunity to discuss with customers how they are using their cloud deployments across the wide range of industries. I learn so much from these customer insights. Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with many of our customers to share some of the insights …
aLogging into the CloudSigma website presents one with all that is needed to create, configure, and administer a CloudSigma virtual infrastructure, or IaaS. Alongside the menu for the various control panels, you will also see a link to the API documentation. The API enables programmatic access to all of the website functionality of the CloudSigma platform via HTTPS, returning JSON …
Technology innovation is accelerating at a greater pace. For companies to compete with the best, they have to be more innovative than ever before. But innovation means releasing better software to modern trends faster than ever. In order to create relevant software, enterprises are increasingly using adopt Agile methodologies to meet that challenge. Agile is essentially a fast iterative model …
I was recently invited to speak at DevTalks in Cluj, Romania. It proved to be an amazing even with loads of great speakers and topics. Well worth considering attending for any developers out there. I gave a talk on the root causes of outages and service disruption from our five years of experience running the CloudSigma cloud locations and some …
Last month I spoke at ApacheCon about Cgroups. It appears as very few Linux users (including yours truly until not too long ago) are familiar with Cgroups and their power. This is a pity, because Cgroups are very powerful, and allows you to allocate resources on your servers in a far more granular fashion than any other tool available in …
One of the great features about CloudSigma is the ability to choose optimized server settings that work great right out-of-the-box. At server creation time, if you aren’t using the quick server create tool, you’ll find under the Properties tab an “Optimize for” option. This allows you to tweak your server for Linux, Windows, BSD or even Solaris. In this blog …
Earlier this month, I spoke at ApacheCon North America in Austin, Texas. Being an open source software user for many years, I have a lot of respect for the Apache Software Foundation. As such, it was an honor to be invited and to give back to the community. At ApacheCon, the days were filled with presentations on topics ranging from …
Due to the recent discussions about the physical data locations in the cloud, people are now openly discussing security issues. The EU and its member states are still trying to find a balance between national and pan-European legal requirements. And to work out a common strategy towards data treatment. The choice of keeping data “at home” has been gaining popularity …
=Understanding data characteristics and the requirements for each characteristic is essential in choosing the right cloud storage strategy and deployment model. This post will help you understand how to best define your data characteristics and requirements as a starting point to implementing a successful data strategy. Let’s have a look at those characteristics and requirements. Data Characteristics 1. Performance …
Long gone are the days when MongoDB was the ‘new kid on the block’. These days, it has evolved to become the go-to solution for many people who are leaving relational databases behind. In this article, I’m not going to make the argument for why you should use MongoDB over {insert other NoSQL database}, or even why you should use …
