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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
Ville Vesilehto: Taking a customer-centric approach to building UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes
Building a successful product requires a customer-centric approach, agile ways of working, and cross-team collaboration. The UpCloud Orchestration Team has been doing just that recently, ahead of the launch of UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes (UKS). We talked to Ville Vesilehto, a Product Owner in the Orchestration Team, to ask all about the product creation journey. As […]
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Developing solutions for modern audiences – Launching UpCloud Managed Kubernetes
The use of Kubernetes is growing year after year, and the system is now the go-to tool for container orchestration. We’re proud to launch UpCloud Managed Kubernetes, to help businesses enjoy all the benefits of using Kubernetes without any of the headaches of maintaining it. Every year, more and more businesses are adopting Kubernetes – […]
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Product Updates
Team Orchestration: Agile and collaborative ways of working
UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes Service will help customers save costs and increase efficiency and performance. But building the platform took flexibility and agility from a tightly-knit team. To find out more from the team behind the platform, we spoke to Filipe Berti, Team Coach, to find out how the group promotes agile and collaborative ways of […]
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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
Nathaniel Ham: Solving problems for customers with Managed Kubernetes
Before you invest time and resources into building a new product, you have to know that it will meet the needs of your customers. When UpCloud’s Orchestration Team set out to build UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes (UKS) platform, how did they know what customers needed? And how did they turn that knowledge into the final product? […]
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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