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UpCloud’s pricing beats both AWS and Azure in recent analysis
Cost optimisation is the phrase on the lips of everyone in the tech world at the moment and we can see why. For businesses who run mission-critical services on the Cloud, cost optimisation is an important exercise and one we would encourage everyone to think about. But if your business is beginning to compare different […]
Comparisons
Industry analyses
UpCloud and Montel – Partnership to bring Kubernetes to Cloud Natives
UpCloud partner programme member and software company, Montel Intergalactic, delivers DevOps expertise to clients across all parts of the software lifecycle and creates future-proof cloud infrastructure for clients on UpCloud. We spoke to Lauri Kainulainen, CTO of Montel, to explore how beneficial a tight-knit partnership is for cloud computing, and why the businesses who switch […]
Industry analyses
Vision and culture
How Elastisys works with UpCloud to ensure GDPR compliance for its customers
As one of UpCloud’s fastest-growing partners, Elastisys delivers a security-hardened Kubernetes platform that is built for EU compliance as well as fully managed on European cloud servers. We spoke to Johan Tordsson, CEO of Elastisys, to explore how the partnership works and why European businesses must ensure they run on a European-based cloud platform to […]
Industry analyses
Vision and culture
How UpCloud can help you optimise operations and minimise risks
‘Uncertainty’ has been the business buzzword of the 2020s so far, and the turbulence isn’t over yet. It’s a sign of the economic times that businesses all over the world are weighing up their appetite for growth, but as our CEO Antti Vilpponen put it in a previous blog post, ‘wise management minimises risk’. It’s […]
Industry analyses
Vision and culture
How global events revealed business risks in cloud services
Today’s organisations are so used to the efficiency and flexibility of cloud services that only a few would be eager to return their data to self-maintained servers. However, the changed global situation has brought new political and geographical risks to the management teams’ agendas. These risks directly impact the globally distributed data centre networks powering […]
Industry analyses
For the open Internet, against the EU Copyright Directive Article 13!
A committee of MEPs recently voted in favour of the overreaching EU Copyright Directive’s Article 13 regardless of opposition from influential tech leaders and the general public. To fight copyright infringement, policymakers want to force Internet companies to scan literally everything users attempt to post on their platform. Many of our users as online companies could be […]
Industry analyses
Templating custom cloud servers with UpCloud Packer builder
One of the best options for templating is Packer the open-source, easy to use, automation solution for custom servers.
Industry analyses
How Kubernetes is changing the DevOps space
In this post, we will look at why you should create cluster computing using Kubernetes and UpCloud.
Industry analyses
The rise of CoreOS
CoreOS — an open source specialised operating system that utilises Linux containers providing similar benefits to virtual machines, but with a focus on applications.
Industry analyses