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Twitter is not just an extended source of news, it is by far one of the best samples of the world’s thoughts. With more than 330 million active users, it is one of the top platforms where people like to share their thoughts. Twitter data can be used for a variety of purposes such as research, consumer insights, demographic insights, …
HDP is the industry’s a truly secure, enterprise-ready open source Apache™ Hadoop® distribution based on a centralized architecture (YARN). HDP addresses the complete needs of data-at-rest, powers real-time customer applications and delivers robust big data analytics that accelerate decision making and innovation. (Source: https://hortonworks.com/products/data-platforms/hdp/). I am going to install HDP to create a big cluster of 5 nodes deployed on …
In this tutorial of CloudSigma’s How-to Series we walk you through one very important feature of CloudSigma – snapshots! With this feature you are able to create point-in-time snapshots of your drives. Subsequently, the snapshots can later be cloned and upgraded to create stand-alone drives. A snapshot can be created on-demand while the server is running. Thus, it will not …
In this tutorial of CloudSigma’s How To Series we tell you more about our storage system and how you can upload your own drive image in the cloud. Our cloud platform solution allows you to create and (re)size multiple persistent virtual drives including mounting multiple drives to a single cloud server and where available multiple storage tiers on the same …
If analysis is the body, data is the soul. In our project of stock market analysis based on Twitter sentiments, we selected a few sample companies. We decided what we needed but we still had to cast some spells to get to the core data. As much as we dream about attending Hogwarts, we can’t simply say ‘Accio’ to make …
CloudSigma recently launched its new Partner Program. If you are a managed service provider (MSP), a system integrator or an IT consultant looking to add lifetime revenue streams and help your customers migrate to the cloud successfully, then the Channel Partner Program of CloudSigma is what you have been looking for. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the platform …
For those in a rush: this blog post shows you how to use free SSL certificates and have then renew perpetually (in theory) so they are near zero hassle to use. It is always nice to automate things. This saves you a lot of time and lets you concentrate on the things that actually matter and make a difference. Renewing …
CloudSigma offers to users the possibility to make as many subscriptions as they wish for the exact amount of resources they need. Your can configure your subscriptions in a flexible manner along with everything else on CloudSigma. The idea is you can flexibly combine burst usage with subscribed resources to closely match your requirements over time. Most of our customers …
When starting to use any new platform there’s a lot to take in so we wanted to share some top tips on how to ensure the smooth running of your account and minimize hassle and potential disruption from funding and maintaining your account so you can concentrate on the important stuff. In this blog post, we talk you through some …
It is now possible to dynamically manage your PTR records on CloudSigma’s DNS servers. This new functionality provides greater flexibility in setting up your applications in our cloud. We now accept dynamic updates of PTR records within our zones. This means that our dynamic DNS servers (DDNS) will accept updates directly from individual IP addresses from the networks used within …
Customers often ask about CPU steal time. Especially those that use the CPUs heavily and for whom it’s a key performance criteria. There are quite a few differences in the setup and behaviour of CPUs and cores between physical and virtual environments. Even between cloud providers there are setups differences that make like for like comparison on the face of …
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 …
