Both colocation and cloud servers help companies increase efficiency and optimize IT spending by outsourcing data center management. However, opting for one solution or another — or combining both of them — will significantly depend on the company’s strategy and requirements. Comparing colocation and cloud servers IT infrastructure requires a high level of resilience, redundancy
High Availability or HA eliminates single points of failure in IT systems to minimize the impact of a disruption in systems, databases and applications. Thus reducing the risk of damaging productivity and losing revenue. Redundancy and automatic failure detection are key features to achieve HA. High Availability & Operational performance High Availability refers to an
The Asociación Española de Startups (Spanish Startups Association)’ report about the cloud market in Spain — carried out by Red2Red and led by Moisés Martín Carretero — analyzes the opportunities and risks of the cloud for innovative entrepreneurship in Spain. Keep reading to discover the key points of the report. Cloud computing within the digital
At Stackscale we always look forward to being surrounded with strategic partners that share our values, like Transparent Edge Services. In the following interview we talk with its CEO, Jorge Román Novalbos, to know more about the project, evolution and goals, as well as their IT infrastructure. How did Transparent Edge Services start? Jorge Román
Migrating your infrastructure from on-premise to Private Cloud will allow you to focus on your core business, without wasting efforts and money on managing and maintaining your own in-house IT infrastructure. Unlike most Public Cloud solutions, a private cloud environment, as those we design at Stackscale, allows more specific and custom configurations, making the migration
The terms “container” and “containerization” are borrowed from the shipping industry. While in the shipping industry containers are used to physically separate different cargoes, in IT, virtual containers package the code, config files, libraries and dependencies an application needs to run. A container is another form of virtualization, as virtual machines are, and Docker and
Due to the success of the eCommerce Mascarillas y Más, thanks to Boticaria García’s1 charity masks project, it was necessary to change the IT infrastructure to support traffic peaks and avoid losing sales. While looking for a cloud environment that met their requirements, they opted for a High-Availability private cloud at Stackscale. In the following
Setting up an eCommerce site with Magento for high availability is essential for making the most of this platform; leader in the development of high-traffic eCommerce sites. A suitable IT infrastructure, a specialized development team, a good system administration team and 24/7 monitoring are some of the keys to success. In this article we will
Last January, Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary. To commemorate these two decades of open knowledge, we not only want to highlight its progress but also the infrastructure under such a huge project. Wikipedia was launched in January 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Ever since, it has not stopped evolving until becoming the huge
Stackscale started to support the student association STAR of the Carlos III University in Madrid (UC3M) some months ago. We provide them with the technical infrastructure they need to be able to carry out their intensive studies and simulations without limits in terms of computing capability. From the moment they presented their project to us,
