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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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Announcing new Cloud Server plans, improvements and pricing adjustments
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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How we put customer support at the centre of our business
UpCloud’s world-class technical support is available 24/7/365. Our single mission at UpCloud is to help our customers, which is why we provide 24/7/365 personal customer service. Our priority is to help customers solve any technical challenges fast, giving you back the time and headspace that you need, in order to focus on what you do […]
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Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala join UpCloud as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer respectively
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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