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Stable and fast network connectivity is critical to cloud computing. Aspects, such as high-availability, throughput, and redundancy are core to its functionality. Still, there are many more additional measures necessary to deliver a reliable but secure service. In this post, as a key member of our networking team I’m going to outline four key steps we’ve taken to give customers …
One of the main challenges that the cloud industry is facing today is the lack of education around how the public cloud works and what the best practices are. After the successful ESA Space Apps Challenge we attended earlier this year, we had the honor to be invited as a sponsor of a new module on cloud computing offered to …
International Customers Can Now Leverage the Customizable, Enterprise-Scale Cybersecurity Solution from Black Lotus on CloudSigma’s cloud. Palo Alto, Calif. – November 4, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced a partnership with Black Lotus, a leader in availability security and provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection. As DDoS attacks …
Everyone at CloudSigma knows that no new product just emerges out of nowhere. CloudSigma is still lead by it’s founders today and focused around product innovation. As such, we have always shared our customers’ passion for creating and testing new technologies, tools and working on solutions that meet pressing problems. No new service has reached the market without firstly starting …
This month we announced a very exciting partnership with Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu. Above all, the main element in this partnership is the introduction of full CloudInit support between the CloudSigma cloud and Ubuntu. An introduction to CloudInit If you’re not familiar with CloudInit, it is the industry standard for bootstrapping cloud servers. To clarify, if you are using …
On-Demand Enterprise Storage Enables Agency to Analyze Critical Satellite Data and Avoid Disasters Frankfurt, Germany – 28 October 2014 – Zadara™ Storage the provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service (STaaS), and CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that the European Space Agency (ESA) is leveraging the Zadara Virtual Private Storage Array™ (VPSA™) service in the …
Introduction Small-to-medium sized manufacturing and engineering enterprises considering product development or process optimization simulation find it prohibitively expensive to access products and services that require a considerable commitment of time alongside a high financial barrier to entry. The use of simulation requires expertise, infrastructure procurement, and ongoing maintenance costs. In addition, it requires software licensing and consultancy fees which often …
Today a vulnerability was discovered in Bash, the shell used on most Linux distributions. We strongly recommend that you patch your servers as soon as possible against this. Debian / Ubuntu [bash light=”true”] $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y bash [/bash] CentOS / RedHat Enterprise Linux / Fedora [bash light=”true”] $ yum update bash [/bash] Make sure …
Timely Partnership, due to Rackspace’s Move Away from IaaS, Gives Customers Seamless Migration Capabilities alongside High Availability Options for an Always-On Infrastructure Zurich, Switzerland & Mumbai, India – September 9, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, and CloudLeap, a cloud migration and high availability SaaS company, today announced a partnership that will allow …
CloudSigma Continues U.S. Cloud Expansion into Honolulu-Based Data Center to Assist Companies Migrating to the Cloud and Strengthen Presence in APAC Palo Alto, Calif. – August 20, 2014 – Following its recent Silicon Valley and Miami cloud location openings, CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it has expanded its public cloud to …
New Cloud Locations Address Growing Customer Base with Improved Latency Performance, Redundancy and Access to Key Markets in the West, Southeast and Latin America Palo Alto, Calif. – August 19, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it is expanding its U.S. public cloud presence with new locations at Equinix’s Silicon …
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – August 18, 2014 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that CloudSigma, a public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, is the latest cloud service provider to join the Equinix Cloud Exchange™. Enterprises now have access to CloudSigma services across the globe via the Equinix Cloud …
