Antti Vilpponen, the former CEO and co-founder of Northern Europe’s largest startup media ArcticStartup, has joined UpCloud as General Manager. Vilpponen will be in charge of commercial activities of the company as well as the expansion of international operations. Welcome on board Antti!
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We are proud to announce that we have joined the ComputeNext marketplace. ComputeNext is a cloud services brokerage, also recognised as a Gartner 2013 Cool Vendor. On ComputeNext you are able to purchase server resources from multiple providers and then control all your resources through one interface. UpCloud is available on ComputeNext with both of […]
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We’re celebrating a successful year with some bonuses – available for all new and existing customers. We pay the bonus to all customer deposits by the 23rd of December. You will receive an e-mail from us on that day with a notification about the bonus. The bonus will be 30% in addition to your deposit. […]
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PRESS RELEASE. Finnish infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider UpCloud has launched a partnership program to ease transition to cloud of companies from different industries. UpCloud offers hourly billed infrastructure services from its Helsinki and London facilities. The opening of the US facility will expand geographical reach further this coming Spring. Secure and agile transition to cloud Antti […]
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The new year has started off in a swift manner here at UpCloud. While most improvements and features are technical and we are surely pushing those forward, we have also improved our customer support service we give to our customers. We are very happy to be able to launch our new Cloud Concierge -service. The […]
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We are glad to inform you that UpCloud’s Support documentation has been published today! The documentation covers basic usage of our service and many advanced features such as resizing storage, using a live-cd or a server image of your own. We also plan to keep releasing tutorials on using UpCloud and setting up different services […]
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Yesterday, on Wednesday 13th, 2015, Crowdstrike announced information regarding a security vulnerability they had discovered in the floppy disk controller on QEMU. The vulnerability allows an attacker to escape the confinement of the Virtual Machine guest operating system and gain privileged access to the host machine. Since a key component of security in virtualised environments […]
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We’re proud to announce that we have opened up a new data centre in Frankfurt, Germany. DE-FRA1 is our fourth data centre. Frankfurt data centre and being present on the German soil is important for us for many reasons. The German market is the largest in Europe and like the rest of the Europeans, the […]
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Cloud hosting provider study by Cloud Spectator In a large study of the top CSPs (cloud service providers) in Europe, Cloud Spectator solidified UpCloud’s position as the performance leader in the cloud hosting provider industry. “A startling 340% difference in performance found among the top European IaaS cloud providers”, Cloud Spectator declared in the recently […]
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UpCloud recognised as the third fastest growing tech company Deloitte organises a widely recognised program each year that lists the fastest growing tech companies around the world. Today, we are extremely happy to announce that UpCloud has been recognised as the third fastest growing tech company in Deloitte Fast 50 Finland 2016 with a growth […]
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UpCloud accelerates growth We are incredibly excited to announce that UpCloud accelerates growth by securing €4 million funding to further improve the products and services that our customers enjoy already today. The investment round was led by Inventure, a leading Nordic venture capital company. This is an exciting time for UpCloud. We want to extend […]
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Today, we are bringing our developer-driven cloud computing to a new region: Singapore! This will mark one of the several data centres we will be launching this year and it’s just the first sign of our accelerated international growth, enabled by our recent funding. (And we are already preparing the launch of another data centre – […]
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Amsterdam data center available Just a few weeks ago, we were very excited to launch our Singaporean data centre and today, we are just as excited to launch in yet another region: Netherlands! As always, we bring the same high-performance and reliable technology stack that we have developed over the years and that is in […]
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We have been hard at work hiring new, great talent and continued accelerating our growth internationally. UpCloud recently opened new offices in both London and Singapore to increase our presence in those regions and with these new offices, we are one step closer to our goal of being available anywhere our users are. UpCloud support available now 24/7 […]
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Intel CPU vulnerabilities uncovered Yesterday, on January 3rd, 2018, Intel confirmed information regarding independent research findings that have uncovered security vulnerabilities in their processors. Further research has shown that this affects all modern processors, including models used by UpCloud and other cloud service providers. The CPU vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to escape the confinement […]
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New Helsinki data center FI-HEL2 Helsinki data center is here. After launching data centers in Singapore and Amsterdam, our never-ending world tour takes us back to Finland. Today, we are excited to announce that the year 2018 is starting on a high note with the opening of FI-HEL2, a brand new data centre in Helsinki! […]
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The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the new important regulation for data privacy. Originally approved back in April 2016 by the EU Parliament, the GDPR is coming into effect on the 25th May 2018. (And GDPR replaces EU legislation that was established over 20 years ago in 1995, so it’s about time!) What […]
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Welcome to Silicon Valley! Today we are announcing the expansion into a new region with the launch of our new data centre US-SJO1, located in San Jose, California! US-SJO1 is situated in the economic and cultural centre of the famous technology capital Silicon Valley. We believe this to be a great location for many fast-growing startups […]
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Intel recently shared information about a newly identified vulnerability in their processors. It concerns a speculative execution side-channel method that Intel calls L1 Terminal Fault or L1TF for short. The vulnerability was discovered by two independent groups of researchers who have titled it Foreshadow. L1TF aka Foreshadow The Foreshadow vulnerability (CVE-2018-3615) is an exploit on the speculative execution […]
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Cloud Spectator is an industry leading infrastructure-as-a-service marketplace analyst. They perform highly detailed and in-depth comparisons to find the best European cloud provider on the market. This year’s report on the cloud space in Europe featured highly competitive offerings across the board. Yet, there was only one winner, UpCloud! Test hosting on UpCloud! UpCloud beats […]
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UpCloud UpCloud was founded on the principle of offering developers and businesses around the world superior products, that are designed by an exceptionally talented team and catered through awesome customer service. We’ve come a long way from a small start-up with big ambitions to a company with amazing customers around the world, a profitable high […]
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The holidays came and went, and while we hope you’ve had a great start for the year 2019, it’s only going to get better. A new year is a time of new plans and oh boy do we have much on the roadmap for this year! And while having plans is great, we wished to also include […]
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Intel published this Tuesday on 14th of May a new class of vulnerabilities which are related to the already year-old speculative execution attacks. The newly-disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) hardware vulnerabilities were found independently by multiple teams and are affecting most modern Intel CPUs. Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities Currently reported vulnerabilities called ZombieLoad, RIDL, […]
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Public cloud has grown in popularity immensely and while suitable for many types of needs, sometimes you just need that little bit of extra, of everything. If you are looking for more customizability, heightened security, better performance, and perfect availability, search no further. For anyone wishing to ascend beyond the public cloud, we are now offering a […]
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The Internet has widely enabled great strives in technology, but progress doesn’t happen by itself. Truly groundbreaking developments take considerable time and effort. We’ve been preluding about our plans and efforts in developing SDN for some time now but the wait is now over! SDN is launching today! The new SDN architecture enables a lot of new […]
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We are incredibly excited to announce that UpCloud has secured €18 million in equity and debt funding to expedite our international growth. Over the next 24 months, we plan to recruit more than 100 new employees and launch more than 10 new data centres across all our key markets in Europe, Asia, and North America, […]
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To help our users to protect their cloud data, we’ve offered manual on-demand and automated scheduled backups, but we want to take things up a notch. Today, we are launching a new easier way of securing your business-critical data with the new Simple backup! Simple backup is easy to use Configuring backup schedules and calculating […]
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We at UpCloud have been closely following the global developments around the COVID-19 pandemic and want to reassure our users of continued operational security. We’ve taken and will continue to take all necessary actions to safeguard our users’ business operations while maintaining the safety of our employees. All of our business operations will continue as […]
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We at UpCloud love to see our users succeed and want to give you the best opportunities to do so. To further improve your chances, we are drastically reducing our network transfer pricing! Supporting the growing demand We are happy to see a continuously growing number of users joining UpCloud which brings an increasing need […]
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Migrating servers or the whole infrastructure from one cloud provider to another may require time and money. This might be one of the crucial decisive factors. Especially in the current economic situation, when every penny saved counts. We want to help you with that by offering a 2-month free cloud migration period. The offer is […]
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Our company culture has always revolved around the exceptional talent of our employees. UpCloud is currently accelerating its growth, and the key in this development is people. Therefore, we’re excited to welcome Sonja Semmelmayr as the new Head of People Operations at UpCloud! Sonja is a highly skilled HR professional with a broad experience across […]
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In October last year, we made a major overhaul on how networking is handled with the launch of SDN. The new software approach to networks has been a game-changer in creating opportunities for developing valuable services and features. Along with the launch of SDN, we introduced SDN Private Networks that allow users to create their own custom, […]
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Securely transferring data takes care and effort to import systems images into a new cloud. To streamline the transfer process and make importing server storages easier, we are launching Storage Import! Migrate servers from on-premise or any other cloud quickly and easily by simply creating new storage out of your server image and deploying it […]
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To provide even better cloud services to our valued users at the East Coast of the US, we are launching a new data centre in New York City. We are excited that after Chicago and San Jose, it is already our third data centre in the United States. Our new New York data centre is […]
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Data transfer is an integral part of cloud computing and all our Simple plans include a generous amount of transfer capacity within the monthly pricing. Nevertheless, the needs of fast-growing businesses can quickly exhaust the monthly transfer quota of their front-end cloud server while other servers on their account never come even close. We recognise […]
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Last month, we announced our plans to bring new freedoms with the introduction of Network Transfer Pool and have been happy to see the enthusiasm and positivity for the announcement. However, we also received feedback from users concerned over fluctuating and seasonal network usage which might cause more excess charges under the new model. To […]
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We’re happy to bring the newest addition to our European data centres. Located in Madrid, Spain, it’s our first data centre in Southern Europe. The new data centre is already available for deploying servers. You can find our Madrid data centre at your UpCloud Control Panel as ES-MAD1. The capital of Spain has recently experienced […]
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Bringing a project to the point where it’s ready for the unveiling is always worth a celebration and even more so after a long development. Object storage service has been a long time coming but we trust that the wait will have been worth it. Today, after a lot of hard work, we are excited […]
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Europe is one of UpCloud’s most significant markets. And even though we’re constantly expanding to different regions in the world, we don’t want to neglect our European customers. After the recent openings of our data centres in New York and Madrid, we are coming to Poland! The PL-WAW1 in Warsaw is our 11th data centre […]
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Terraform is a popular open-source software tool created by HashiCorp. Terraform allows users to define infrastructure-as-code using a simple, human-readable language. It enables you to take full control of your cloud infrastructure using declarative configuration files to manage services and resources. The UpCloud Terraform provider module integrates our infrastructure with Terraform and has been available […]
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The year has turned, and UpCloud welcomes you to 2021, ready again to show you what the best cloud infrastructure can offer for your business. The last year has proven the capabilities of our brand, products and most importantly, the strength of our teams. We’ve been happy to see many new users coming and staying […]
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We couldn’t be more thrilled about how promising the year 2021 has started. After announcing our newly updated UpCloud Terraform provider, we have more exciting news to share. UpCloud is expanding to another continent with a brand new data centre! We are happy to be introducing AU-SYD1 in the financial capital of Australia, Sydney. “We’ve had […]
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The user-friendly UpCloud Control Panel and the robust UpCloud API both serve to provide our users full control of their cloud resources. However, each suite very different needs. We want to be able to offer something for everyone and to this effort, we are excited to launch UpCloud Command-Line Interface! UpCloud CLI UpCloud Command-Line Interface, […]
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Managed databases offer a carefree approach to installation and maintenance while providing advantages often only available in high-complexity self-hosted databases. The increase in system complexity then adds costs by requiring continuous attention to upkeep. To solve this headache once and for all, we are excited to be introducing UpCloud Managed Databases! Deploy your database on the […]
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We’re delighted to announce Erik Rehn joining UpCloud as our new Head of Sales. Erik will be a great addition to our global team leading UpCloud’s sales and business development strategy towards our key user segments among small and medium-sized businesses as well as looking for new market opportunities. “Not all companies are able or […]
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We’re extremely happy to announce that Steve Midgley has joined UpCloud as our new Board Chair. Steve brings a wealth of knowledge regarding the cloud infrastructure industry. After the €18 million investment that UpCloud secured at the beginning of 2020, his appointment is another part of our transformation towards becoming a partner of scaling and […]
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In March 2021, we announced the opening of AU-SYD1 in Sydney, our first data centre in Australia. After a successful launch, we want to make our Sydney data centre even more competitive and introduce more users to the world’s fastest cloud. As a result, we are lowering the regional prices. Starting today, we offer the same […]
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In 2022, we will be launching several new services and a bunch of updates to our current portfolio.
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We at UpCloud have been shocked and appalled by the actions of Russia towards Ukraine. The illegal aggression Russia has taken towards a sovereign state, Ukraine, is a clear violation of international law and treaties. We stand in full support of Ukraine and condemn Russia’s actions in the strongest way possible. Until now, we have […]
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Load balancing is a true and tested method of building resilience and improving system throughput. However, it might not be quite that easy to implement or maintain for everyone, until now. To help anyone create a state-of-art frontend for their cloud services, we are excited to unveil a new carefree way to build resilience. Today we […]
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Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala have joined the UpCloud leadership team as chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief financial officer (CFO) reporting to our CEO Antti Vilpponen. Annukka brings a wealth of experience in consulting and auditing and has previous experience from PwC. She holds an accreditation as a Finnish Authorised Public Accountant. Annukka joined […]
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Streamlining currency changes for customers Starting from January 1st 2023, we are changing our pricing currency from US Dollars (USD) to Euros (EUR) to bring our customers more benefits and reduce uncertainty. The majority of our current customers use Euro as a payment currency. We decided to make this change to bring three vital advantages […]
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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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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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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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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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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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Yesterday, on the 24th of July 2023, Google Project Zero published their findings of a new flaw in AMD’s Zen 2 processors. The vulnerability titled ‘Zenbleed’ affects the entire Zen 2 product stack, from AMD’s EPYC data center processors to the Ryzen 3000 CPUs. It can be exploited to steal sensitive data stored in the […]
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On August 8, 2023, Intel published a new security vulnerability that exploits Gather Data Sampling (GDS). Named Downfall by its discoverer, it impacts multiple generations of Intel processors used in both personal and cloud computers. Downfall is a transient execution side-channel vulnerability that targets a critical weakness found in many modern Intel processor models. Following the […]
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