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The Four Most Popular Leaseweb Solutions Explained
At Leaseweb, we offer reliable web hosting products and services varying from simple solutions (such as web hosting, virtual servers, and dedicated servers) to more advanced hybrid cloud services. But what all do we offer, and how do you know the right solution for your business? We’ve broken down four of our most popular products […]
Three Reasons Why Leaseweb is the Ideal Infrastructure Provider for SaaS Scalability
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market is expected to reach $220.21 billion in value by 2022, and like any growing industry, this means there are a lot of fast-growth businesses competing for market share. While we’ve seen many SaaS companies launch innovative and successful products, many of them are missing the ability to scale with the growth […]
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Building a Cloud Culture to Get the Most Out of Your Investment
Cloud technology has taken the global economy by storm. Businesses now have the opportunity to utilize public, private, hybrid and hyperscale cloud models. However, there’s more to using cloud than meets the eye, and it should create more than just good ROI. Cloud service integration goes far beyond the realm of the IT department and […]
Leaseweb VMware vCloud vs. VMware vSphere: Which Is Right for Your Business?
Leaseweb offers reliable hosting products and services, including several products powered by VMware. But when there are so many different types of VMware Cloud products, how do you choose? Worry not – read on as we walk you through our different VMware product offerings and use cases. Dedicated Servers with VMWare ESXi (OS) One of […]
How the European Union is Rebalancing the Global Cloud Market
The global cloud market needs a major rehaul. Over half of the worldwide cloud market share is dominated by five companies (think AWS, Google, Microsoft, etc.). No industry can operate as a free market (or even really be considered one) when big brands are this dominant, and the cloud market is no exception. Monopolies leave […]
The German iGaming Sector Is About to Skyrocket. Is Your Company Ready?
iGaming is coming to Germany – the largest economy in the EU – thanks to new legislation coming into force in July 2021. But are German iGaming operators and their underlying infrastructure prepared to take on (and scale alongside) the massive influx of players expected once iGaming regulations are loosened? The History of iGaming in […]
Interview With Walter van de Waterbeemd, Chief Human Resources Officer
Tell us a bit about your role at Leaseweb. At Leaseweb, I am the Chief Human Resources Officer and responsible for the global HR policies and the alignment of HR operations between all (international) entities. By analyzing the market, adequate strategies can be developed to stay an employer of choice and compete in a competitive […]
How To Create An Interconnected Cloud Computing Environment
The world of cloud is becoming more and more a world of interconnected cloud services. Using features like Virtual Private Network Tunnels, you can securely interconnect cloud environments with each other over the public Internet. If you run workloads in a public cloud environment (such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure) as well as on […]
What Is Kubernetes?
Application container technology – such as Docker and Kubernetes – is revolutionizing application development and bringing previously unimagined flexibility and efficiency to the application software development process. Application containers like Docker containers are lightweight with rapid provisioning (we’re talking milliseconds) and provide an alternative to virtual machines that can consume a high amount of system […]
Why Choose Leaseweb VMware?
Whether you’re taking your first steps into virtualization, expanding your local infrastructure into the cloud, hybridizing your bare metal infrastructure, or adopting a multi-cloud strategy for workload diversification and cost optimization, Leaseweb’s VMware solutions are the best choice for your business. Here’s why: VMware: It is the gold standard for virtual deployments. It’s ubiquitous, feature-rich, […]
What is Colocation?
Those in the hosting business will most likely know what we mean when we say the word ‘colocation’. In case you are not yet familiar, colocation services are when you rent data center space for your own equipment that you have purchased. The data center will provide you floor space (including or excluding racks), power, […]
Success at Apache: The Leaseweb Fork
I joined the Apache CloudStack community in 2012 and became a committer in 2013, eventually becoming a PMC (Project Management Committee) member in 2017. My journey to becoming a PMC was both physical and literal and included several forks in the road. The forks presented themselves in all aspects of my journey – although the […]