Robert van der Meulen is Director of Product Strategy at Leaseweb Global. Robert has extensive experience in developing and expanding enterprise-grade public and private cloud solutions on a global scale. Prior to joining Leaseweb, he held several management positions in R&D and software development, and started his own IT consultancy company.
Articles by Robert Van der Meulen - Director Product Strategy
As an IaaS provider, we host multiple storage systems to support our Clouds. Unfortunately, earlier this week one of these platforms was causing issues, resulting in major headaches for both us and, more importantly, some of our customers.
We’ve had a busy few months in the cloud team. In March this year, we launched the virtual network-backed Cloud product – giving customers the opportunity to use a private internal network to communicate between cloud instances. The advantages are obvious – free data traffic, easy scaling, and protected private traffic within your cloud. After […]
One of the advantages of cloud computing is the flexibility and redundancy it offers. If your cloud provider is running a fully redundant platform (in my opinion it can’t be done right any other way), most maintenance tasks can be performed without any impact for customers.
I am happy to announce the addition of the new Console feature for Leaseweb’s Cloud and Virtual Private Server products. This new feature allows you to control your instances as if you were physically connected to the server. It is available for all Cloud and Virtual Private Servers instances ordered after 19 March 2012 (instances […]
Earlier this week, Leaseweb USA launched our latest Cloud platform, resulting in a unified portfolio all across Leaseweb’s locations. You can now set up Cloud services in three countries.
Today is another exciting day – we have just released additional Cloud platforms in Germany and the Netherlands and we restructured our Cloud portfolio! The most important addition to our product lineup is the new Leaseweb Cloud product, which combines cloud instances with a private virtual network. This enables you to create more advanced infrastructures […]
It has been another busy month for the teams working on Leaseweb Cloud. After toasting to the go-live of the U.S Cloud platform, we didn’t take a break. Instead we prepared for another expansion. I’m proud to announce that all the hard work has resulted in a new Cloud PoP for Leaseweb Germany in their […]
Many of you probably know about our Cloud services in the Netherlands. In fact, since our new platform was launched, we’ve seen thousands of customers using our Express Cloud to host their applications. I’ve talked to quite a few of them and when I ask what they would like us to add, the answer is […]
A while back we introduced the free Basic Firewall functionality for all Express Cloud Servers ordered after the 19th of March 2012. This is an easy way to add an extra layer of protection to your Cloud instance at no additional cost. Many customers are now using the Basic Firewall to further protect their infrastructure […]
As part of our continuous work to add exciting new functionality and further improve our products, we just released a new feature for the Leaseweb Express Cloud product. As of today, you can find a new section our Customer Portal: Firewall Management for Cloud!