Introduction When working on cloud infrastructure, your primary concern is making sure your applications are fully operational. One important inclusion of your setup and deployment process is to build effective, thorough, and robust security measures into your apps or systems before they are offered to the public. Instead of retroactively implementing security measures post-deployment, it is important to ensure that …
CloudSigma How To Series: Cloud Backup Functionality
In this tutorial of CloudSigma How-to Series we will walk you through CloudSigma’s brand new backup functionality. It is available for all customers in one of our European cloud locations. The new feature is based on remote snapshots. This service is an extension to our standard snapshot service however, it allows customers to create point-in-time snapshots as an independent backup in …
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 …
Storage management with automatic periodic snapshots
A while ago, we introduced the ability to take snapshots of a drive. This is a very handy feature that allows you to quickly and efficiently save drive states even on live systems. Thanks to ZFS, automatic snapshots will only consume the delta between the current state and where the snapshot was taken. This means that if your original drive …
How to securely use BitTorrent Sync for backups
A while back I wrote a guest post on BitTorrent’s blog about how to use BitTorrent Sync as an alternative to cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Box. As a result, this post is an expansion of that post that provides more clear step-by-step instructions on how to securely deploy BitTorrent Sync. Security notes First, since the focus of …