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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 […]
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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 […]
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Stony Brook University uses UpCloud to educate future Cloud developers
Cloud computing starts with people. Without passionate and qualified developers to set up, maintain and innovate within Cloud infrastructure, the sector would not have experienced rapid global growth over the last decade. Despite this, educational resources for Cloud computing remain rare or underdeveloped. Only a few institutions offer tailored courses for student developers to pick […]
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Filipe Berti: Working and living abroad – from Brazil to Finland
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work abroad? Alongside providing flexible opportunities for remote work, UpCloud also supports employees with relocation. Read our colleague Filipe’s story of moving from Brazil to Finland. In 2021, a friend sent Filipe a job posting – UpCloud was looking for an Agile Team Coach to […]
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Highlights of 2022: Our Year in Review
2022 has come and gone! We want to continue our tradition of looking at the milestones and highlights of the past year. This year has been full of great achievements and accomplishments, even though the global atmosphere continues to be rough. We want to thank all our users and partners for their continuous and unbroken […]
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UpCloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation
In the past year, we have been working on many products and services like Managed Load Balancer, Hot Resizing, and Managed Redis Databases, that help customers to be more productive in their core business. Simplifying cloud infrastructure setup and management has been a large part of our development plans, not the least of which, Managed […]
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Building better user experience – Launching Managed Databases for Redis
Long response times or slow login experience in your webshop or application can drastically reduce sales. And as many would agree from personal experience, If the content is not delivered in a timely manner users will go elsewhere. To help improve your application performance in one go, we’ve been developing little something. Today I am […]
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New modern operating systems with improved security out of the box
Password strength has always been a concern for all internet-connected systems. Doubly so for any cloud servers with open service ports. If you’ve ever had a look at your Syslogs after deployment, many servers are immediately subjected to brute-force attacks straight from creation. For the longest time, the best advice has been to disable password […]
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