In this post, I will show you how to make your application data persist by adding a persistent volume claim to an already deployed pod/container.
Tutorial: Adding Persistent Storage to a Container in Kubernetes
Do you need to worry about backups in the cloud?
With this blog post, our goal is to help customers to avoid irrecoverable loss of data and computing resources, by making sure they have considered the scenarios they need to guard against and have recovery plans for these.
How to horizontally autoscale pods in Kubernetes
In this article I demonstrate how to set up an autoscaler to scale up the pods when the CPU usage exceeds a certain threshold and back down again.
Cloud infrastructure: Why only European providers can offer adequate data sovereignty and data protection
Customer and other confidential company data is one of the most valuable assets in the digitalized economy. To protect this asset adequately in the cloud, there is currently only one secure strategy: to work with a European owned cloud infrastructure partner.
Major upgrade of Safe Swiss Cloud’s Kubernetes platform
The Kubernetes cloud is the perfect infrastructure for microservices architecture. It provides an out-of-the-box solution to get you up and running quickly on a managed public or on a dedicated private Kubernetes/OpenShift cluster.
100% private document storage: “Data Drop” from Safe Swiss Cloud enables collaboration within the company and in home office
Sharing documents with colleagues, customers and suppliers while collaborating on them is part of everyday life in many companies. But is this data exchange also secure? With the “Data Drop” from Safe Swiss Cloud, the data is stored on a private server in your own virtual data center making it easy to collaborate securely.
How Six Use Cases are Driving Remote Working Requirements
Use cases for home office, customer interactions, team meetings, bilateral, formal and supplier interactions are determining the requirements for remote working.
Get going with JupyterLab on OpenShift
JupyterLab is the most widely used data science / machine learning IDE. Deploying it on OpenShift / Kubernetes adds another layer of flexibility in terms of convenience, resource allocation and horizontal scaling across user groups.
Corona and the Cloud: The New Status Quo of Digitization
The Covid 19 pandemic is accelerating the digitalisation of the economy and society on an unprecedented scale. Cloud services are proving to be a fast and efficient solution in this phase. What does this mean for companies?
Business Continuity at Safe Swiss Cloud during Corona
The Safe Swiss Cloud management team took a number of steps to ensure business continuity during the virus outbreak. Our first priority was to take measures to reduce risk to the health of our employees. Secondly to ensure that all our services and support would continue to function without interruption.
Safe Swiss Cloud: Better technology, modern products, new website
A lot has happened at Safe Swiss Cloud in the past few months – and we decided that a new look and feel for our website would be a good way of highlighting the new Safe Swiss Cloud.
Safe Swiss Cloud backs the Contract for the Web: let’s make our online world safe and empowering for everyone
Why we back the Contract for the Web, an initiative by the World Wide Web Foundation in November 2019
What does the CLOUD Act mean for European companies?
Companies that use IT services from the cloud will find answers to the most important questions about the CLOUD Act here.
Faster, More Efficient, Better: What Banking Applications Can Do with Containers in the Cloud
Containers and microservices have revolutionized the deployment of enterprise software. Only one industry still behaves very sluggishly when transferring your applications to cloud containers: banks and financial service providers. But there are also successful counter-examples.
Study shows: OpenShift leads to faster development and lower costs
At Safe Swiss Cloud, we hear from software developers time and again that with dedicated Openshift clusters, the benefits of deployment in the cloud can be perfectly exploited. Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service OpenShift enables faster development, deployment, monitoring and scaling of applications in docker containers. The feedback is almost always similar:
Insights: How to prepare VMs for OpenShift Deployment in a Cloud Environment
Deploying OpenShift to the cloud as opposed to bare metal, is an ideal way to get up and going quickly, being particularly well suited to development and test environments where instant resource availability and flexibility is key. A great way to smooth the path to a successful OpenShift deployment is by using automation.
EveryWare and Safe Swiss Cloud partner to drive cloud innovation in Switzerland
EveryWare AG has acquired a majority interest in Safe Swiss Cloud AG as part of a cloud cooperation. In the future, both companies will work very closely together to set new trends as innovation drivers in the Swiss cloud market. At the same time, however, they remain independent providers and will continue to operate under their respective names and brands.
Cooperation between Safe Swiss Cloud and TOMTEC for innovative diagnostic software
The cloud-based software TOMTEC ZERO cloud-based software makes heart diagnosis fast, safe and simple. This is also possible thanks to the secure and scalable infrastructure of the Safe Swiss Cloud.
OpenShift at Safe Swiss Cloud: Easy Software Deployment in the Cloud
More and more companies are using OpenShift to develop and deploy their cloud applications. It leverages the advantages of docker containers, manages scaling, and increases efficiency. Now available in the Safe Swiss Cloud.
Download: “Why get on-board the cloud?” – Safes Swiss Cloud at Digital Economic Forum 2017
In his presentation at Digital Economic Forum 2017 at Zurich, Switzerland, Daniel Müri, CEO of SafeSwissCloud gave practical examples of how companies are getting on their way to the cloud – and how they can benefit from the full potential of the technology.
Join us at Digital Economic Forum, May 9 & 10, Zurich
Daniel Müri, CEO Safe Swiss Cloud, will host the business track “Internet of Finance Things”.
Report: Safe Swiss Cloud is best practice for finance applications in the Cloud
A report shows best practice examples for enterprise applications by banks and financial service providers in the Cloud. Safe Swiss Cloud is one of these.
Internet of Things: Why the security of cloud and network is especially important
IoT devices are not just practical. They are also a potential security risk. It’s not just devices and applications which have to be equipped to guarantee secure data. Network security in cloud systems also has to meet the highest standards.
Video on Demand, Hands on
A VOD (Video On Demand) page is setup on a SafeSwissCloud virtual server and the components required are discussed in the article.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): How does the new European data-protection standard impact a company’s cloud strategy?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) harmonizes the rules for the processing of personal data by private companies and public authorities throughout the EU. This forces many organizations to think again about the cloud strategy.
Video hosting in the cloud: More on Codecs and Streaming
High quality videos would not be possible on contemporary devices if not for codecs. High quality videos on the Internet are possible due to streaming architectures. We take a closer look at both these technologies.
Brexit, Banking & the Cloud: What’s next?
That Great Britain will leave the European Union is certain – what is less certain, however, is how Brexit will proceed and what it will mean for British companies that conduct a large part of their business in the rest of Europe. Especially for the financial industry, which is increasingly voicing its departure from London. This step also has consequences for the Cloud strategies of the banks.
Empowering Real-Time Big Data for Industry 4.0
While Big-Data can be compared to huge Barrels containing Water, real-time Big Data comes along as a waterfall. But not a drop may be lost. Lost real-time data is lost forever.
How to set up a reliable video streaming architecture
The bulk of network packets on the internet are now for audio/video applications. This article gives some background information on the growing use of video, the standards, hosting and infrastructure requirements.
Driverless cars and the cloud: Without trust, no revolution!
Without high-availability data from The Cloud, driverless cars will have to remain in the garage. And only if 100% security is guaranteed in this case, this technology can revolutionize traffic.
Banking and the cloud: The revolution is here
According to conventional wisdom, one would expect banks to be cautious when migrating to the cloud. Recent reports indicate however, that the cloud revolution might come sooner than expected.
Internet of Things & Healthcare (IoT): How the Cloud enables rapid growth and what this means for data security
The IoT market is growing rapidly in the area of healthcare and the Cloud is the basis for what makes all this growth possible – provided data security is ensured.
Migration to the Cloud: the most important Questions and Answers
Here is a compilation of questions related to migrating to the cloud which we regularly encounter in discussions with our customers.
Switzerland is one of the safest ranked places to host data centers worldwide
Switzerland has been rankend as one of the safest places in the world to host a data center. These are the findings of the currently pubished Data Center Risk Index.
Cloud Security: Away with the old prejudices, in with the new reality
Many IT decision makers still have concerns when migrating to the cloud. Their perceptions have now been overtaken. Read more to find out why!
Cloud Computing in the health sector: What advantages are there – and what are the risks?
What considerations play an important role for MEDUDEM AG (www.careintegrator.com) who provide a web-based collaboration solution for healthcare players using the infrastructure of Safe Swiss Cloud?
How the health management system MyVitali gathers and processes data
The term Internet of Things (IoT) describes the tendency of computers increasingly disappearing as devices and being replaced by „intelligent things“ which exchange data through the Internet and support human users imperceptibly in their activities.There are many applications, from intelligent devices in manufacturing to everyday use in homes – for example, the automatic control of energy consumption and household equipment.
From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield: Continuing the legal uncertainty for businesses
Since the end of Safe Harbour European companies no longer have any kind of legal secuirty when they use US-based cloud services. The planned Privacy Shield Agreement between Europe and the US will not bring any change to that.
Disaster Recovery in the cloud: Faster, safer, without investments
The cloud offers an affordable and fast alternative to conventional Disaster Recovery approaches – without investing into new servers or further data center locations. As a result, there is now a solid strategy for small and medium-sized businesses to protect their business-critical data and infrastructure. Previously this kind of data protection was only affordable for large enterprises.
Gridmine and Safe Swiss Cloud partner to make instant Big Data a reality
Safe Swiss Cloud has partnered up with Gridmine to create a solution that makes Big Data accessible to everybody. We will get you up and running with a scalable big data infrastructure within two days. Traditionally, setting up a Big Data solution and infrastructure has taken highly qualified tech teams months to set-up.
Security-Report: IT decision makers say the Enterprise Cloud is at least as secure as in-house solutions
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has recently published a report on cloud security. For the study titled “The Cloud Balancing Act for IT: Between Promise and Peril” 200 IT and security decision makers had been interrogated.
Their clear conclusion: Companies that decide to adopt Enterprice cloud computing do absolutele not take higher security risks. Precondition is a clearly defined cloud policy.