Abiquo and CloudSigma Integration Grants Users Seamless Cross-Cloud Management, Security and Accessibility from Abiquo anyCloud London, August 5, 2014 – Hybrid cloud management platform provider Abiquo today announced a partnership with CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, to add CloudSigma services to its multi-cloud management platform, Abiquo anyCloud. With anyCloud, public cloud users can now …
New Mobile App Takes on the Health & Wellness Market with CloudSigma’s Support
One of the things I love most about my job is the sheer variety of customers that we have. It gives me the opportunity to speak with business owners and managers from all walks of life and sectors of the economy. From processing satellite data for the European Space Agency, to running simulated trading environments for Deutsche Boerse, or providing …
How to run Docker on CloudSigma (with CloudInit)
First, you need to have knowledge of a few pre-requisites: An SSH key. Basic understanding of Docker. The official documentation is a great start. Basic knowledge of CloudInit In the recent year or so, Docker has received a tremendous amount of attention. It appears to be one of those things where the timing was just perfect. While the concept of …
ExpressRoute – Worth the Cost?
What is ExpressRoute? Recently, Microsoft announced .ExpressRoute, which, similar to our private patching, creates a private layer 2 connection between the cloud and on premise infrastructure for more streamlined data access, end-to-end private IP and greater portability, as well as a more consistent networking experience. But, for ExpressRoute customers, it comes with a hefty price tag, leaving one to wonder …
Five Tools You Need for Your Cloud Deployment
You have finally managed to get up and running with your application. It runs great. You’re happy and you’re customers are happy. One morning you wake up with an inbox full of angry customer emails and your Twitter feed full of complaints. While you were sleeping, something broke. You just didn’t know about it until this morning when you checked …
An introduction to failover in the cloud
One of the hardest, but most important things to do when building your cloud architecture, is to eliminate Single Point of Failures (SPoF). What this means is that every mission critical service should be able to survive an outage of any given server. Some companies, like Netflix, have taken this to an extreme and created a service called Chaos Monkey. …
CloudSigma.com is now fully protected by SSL
At CloudSigma, we take security very serious. Since the very beginning, all our web app (the cloud control panel) and our API has been configured to accept SSL connections only. We’re now happy to announce that we’ve also moved our regular marketing site (i.e. this) to only run SSL as well. For those not familiar SSL, it’s a way to …
Workshare Chooses CloudSigma to Enhance Product Development Process
CloudSigma’s Flexible Pricing, Green Hosting Initiatives and High-Availability Proves Ideal for Workshare’s Application Testing and Development Palo Alto, Calif. – May 15, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that Workshare, a provider of secure enterprise collaboration applications, has chosen CloudSigma’s platform to host its application testing and development environment. By leveraging …
An update to CloudSigma’s Ansible module
Recently, we announced an Ansible module for CloudSigma (or rather, a Dynamic Inventory backend). I’ve personally started to use Ansible more and more for performing simple tasks. It did however become somewhat cumbersome to use when you have a larger pool of servers. While still not available in the web app, we have supported Tags for grouping resources for some …
European providers to support a new cloud computing Marketplace for Science, building on the Helix Nebula Initiative
7 May 2014 European cloud providers to support a new federated European Cloud Marketplace Integration with existing e-Infrastructures e.g. EGI and GÉANT, to form a hybrid cloud Computing Marketplace and reach out to Europe’s research communities Trusted cloud services through compliance with EU regulations and legislation European Cloud service providers, Atos through Canopy its Cloud company, CGI, CloudSigma, EGI, Interoute, …
Web surfing? After Heartbleed make sure you update your SSL certificate setting in your browsers
With the recent Heartbleed security vulnerability affecting a significant part of the world’s secured internet traffic, most companies have been taking the precaution of renewing their SSL certificates as it is possible to compromise the keys for these certificates using the Heartbleed vulnerability. Unfortunately, many browsers won’t automatically check for revoked certificates (including the most popular Google Chrome). We highly …
CloudSigma Fuels Space Apps Challenge for the Second Year in a Row
Great innovators always strive to uncover the unknown, whether it’s a startup founder looking to shake up an existing industry with a new technology, or a scientist looking to explore outer space, they’re determined to keep asking “what’s next?” And, it’s with similar ambition that technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and students worldwide came together for the third …