For some time now our team has been working on a new version of our cloud management system – and we are soon ready to show it off. The new interface comes with some new features, better responsiveness & performance and has been aesthetically redesigned from the ground up. Using technologies such as React – allows for a very different … Read More
The f(ourth)irst OpenInfra Days Nordics is now in the books
The beginning of October marked the end of a six month long journey with planning and collaboration to realise OpenInfra Days Nordics 2019. Here are some of our thoughts from this years event. The name change 2018 marked the beginning of a new era as the OpenStack Foundation announced their full support to all adjacent open source communities dedicated to … Read More
Collaboration for the future of open infrastructure
We recently got back from a trip to the UK where we attended the first European OpenInfra Days in London. An event where open source communities and projects meet, learn and collaborate to define the future of open infrastructure. Here are some of our take aways from the conference on April 1. Openly developing Open Infrastructure Thierry Carrez talked about … Read More
Kickstart your Kubernetes skills!
Clearly you’ve heard of Kubernetes. Kubernetes has soundly won the container orchestration contest, and if you’re looking to deploy containerized applications, Kubernetes is the way to do it. If you’ve been following the latest developments in OpenStack, you’ve certainly also heard that there is a lot going on on the OpenStack/Kubernetes integration front. (See this Superuser article from February, for … Read More
Quality improvements in City Cloud, Los Angeles zone
Quality is a key aspect of our service delivery and something that we always strive to maintain in all aspect of our business. We have a total of 8 public cloud zones across the globe and maintaining a certain level of standards is key both for quality, security and many other aspects of our business. Homogenising & increasing compliance As … Read More
The importance of screening your personnel when it comes to data protection
”We conduct at least as thorough security controls as government agencies” – Kim Hindart, CSO at City Network At the present a lot of sensitive data moves from corporations and government agencies own data centers to cloud providers. This means that more organisations and personnel are involved in security processes, on all levels. It’s not enough that the corporation or … Read More
OpenStack is the enabler of digital transformation
Earlier this year, 451 Research released a Pathfinder paper ”OpenStack: Enabler of Digital Transformation – How Service Providers Can Benefit”. The paper is commissioned by SUSE and in addition to the key finding revealed by the headline, it details a range of good investment reasons, opportunities and benefits of open source cloud platforms. While the paper is addressing service providers … Read More
Long live the Open Infrastructure Summit
Last week was all about the OpenStack Summit in Berlin and we have really enjoyed meeting up with the community to live and breathe open source for a full week. The start of this Summit gave some exciting insights on the ongoing transformation within the OpenStack community as we collaborate with more and more adjacent open source technologies all pointing … Read More
Our heroes received the OpenStack Superuser awards at the Berlin Summit!
This morning our very own OpenStack super heroes received the OpenStack Superuser award at the OpenStack Summit in Berlin. The awards launched in 2014 to recognize organizations that have used OpenStack to meaningfully improve their business while contributing back to the community. Previous winners include AT&T, CERN, China Mobile, Comcast, NTT Group, Paddy Power Betfair and UKCloud. This Summit, the … Read More
60% of respondents from a Nordic Enterprise study are not sure in which country their data is stored
One of the key insights from this report is the fact that 60% of the respondents, 24% of which comes from Government/Public Administration/Military*, can’t say for sure in which country their company data resides.