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CAPI – A love story of automation and open source

The fall of 2024 marked a significant milestone for Elastx with the production deployment of Cluster API (CAPI). By replacing Kubespray, CAPI has become the central tool for managing Kubernetes clusters. With CAPI, we can offer an even more efficient, automated, and reliable solution that not only simplifies the work for our technicians but also enhances the experience for our customers.

2024-10-29

Att betala lösen – vägen till ett digitalt helvete

Att göra betalning av lösen till cyberkriminella olagligt är ett nödvändigt steg mot en säkrare digital värld när Sverige står inför en alltmer sofistikerad och aggressiv cyberkriminalitet, skriver Joakim Öhman, vd och grundare Elastx.

2024-09-09

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“Responsible AI by Design”: Practical sustainability considerations in adopting Gen AI

AI offers significant opportunities for innovation and efficiency. However, alongside these advancements it is important to ensure AI is developed and deployed responsibly. We have all heard about “by design”-approaches, and now is the time for "Responsible AI by design". This approach mitigates risks, reduces long-term AI model maintenance costs, and builds trust with stakeholders. It is also key to reducing the environmental impact of AI. Written by Jens Eriksvik & Michael Asplund

2024-08-22

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New Swedish cloud storage beats the competition – faster and cheaper

We are very proud to provide a Swedish market-leading storage with ECP v2 volumes, and this despite fierce competition. V2 volumes are currently available in ECP Openstack IaaS, Kubernetes CaaS and DBaaS. In addition to price and performance, we are leading in sustainability, environmentally as well as from a community perspective.We also have a committed 24x7 support that is always available if you need our support.

2024-05-15

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Leveraging privacy, security and responsible AI to create competitive advantage

The responsible use of data, technology and artificial intelligence in business is key for customers, stakeholders, employees and regulatory bodies. As businesses leverage AI for innovation and growth, it is imperative with a robust approach to data privacy, security, and sustainability and to safeguard the ownership, integrity and security of key AI models that form your business’ competitive advantage. At Algorithma, together with our partners, we are committed to developing and deploying AI solutions that are not only effective but also responsible, secure and transparent.

2024-04-23

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Swedish Elastx continues to expand its service offerings - Now offering Database as a Service

Managing databases no longer needs to be a complex and time-consuming task requiring special skills and resources. In November 2023, we launched our DBaaS in tech-preview and subsequently added a number of updates and functions. It has been a successful tech-preview and as of 2024-04-10, DBaaS went over to being generally available to everyone. We are proud to offer DBaaS, a service that simplifies your database management. Here, we'll show you how Elastx DBaaS streamlines your database management tasks while ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.

2024-04-16

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Secure your digital future with a local cloud provider

The digital revolution has fundamentally transformed our world, and for companies like Elastx, the question of digital sovereignty is of utmost importance. We understand that choosing a cloud provider isn't just about finding the most cost-effective or technologically advanced solution; it's also about securing the future and integrity of your business in an increasingly digitized world. In this article, we delve into why it's so crucial for companies to opt for a local cloud provider and how it can contribute to creating a safe and sustainable digital future.

2024-03-14

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The Swedish Cloud Provider: Everything you need for secure cloud operations

In today's digital era, selecting a dependable cloud provider is paramount for both success and privacy. Here at Elastx, dubbed "The Swedish Cloud Provider," we are steadfast in being the preferred choice for organizations seeking a trustworthy cloud partner. With a strong emphasis on performance, legal compliance, and dedicated support, Elastx has solidified its position as a leading player in the Swedish and European cloud landscape for over a decade.

2024-02-15

DDoS protection now included

Organized crime groups, driven by profit and power, have recognized the immense potential of cybercrime. By leveraging their resources, expertise, and global reach, these groups have turned to DDoS attacks as one of the strategic tools to achieve their objectives. A single DDoS attack can cripple a website or network, rendering it inaccessible to legitimate users. Businesses lose revenue, customer confidence plummets, and reputations are tarnished, all at the hands of malicious actors operating in the shadows.

2024-02-01

Your partner for successful AI in the cloud!

At Elastx, we take pride in being your trusted Swedish Cloud Service Provider. Our unique strength lies in offering a sustainable platform for business-critical applications, adhering to Swedish and European legislation, and providing high-quality 24/7 support with Swedish-speaking staff. We've launched a suite of services creating a powerful platform for AI-based applications. With OpenStack IaaS, Kubernetes CaaS, robust GPU instances, market-leading storage, and database as a service, we offer competent and cost-effective solutions.

2024-01-18

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2023 In review

As we bid farewell to 2023, Elastx reflects on a year of challenges and milestones. Join us as we revisit key events, celebrate accomplishments, and look ahead to an exciting 2024. In this post, we delve into our efforts in digital sustainability, organizational growth, and the promising roadmap that awaits.

2024-01-02

Swedish innovation power - Elastx elevates cloud storage to new heights!

Elastx once again establishes the benchmark for cloud storage with the launch of a storage solution that not only delivers exceptional performance but also remains affordable and resilient. Let's delve into why Elastx stands out as the ultimate choice for your business storage needs.

2023-12-18

Elastx presents: Database as a Service

Managing databases no longer needs to be a complex and time-consuming task requiring special skills and resources. We are proud to offer DBaaS, a service that simplifies your database management. Here, we'll show you how Elastx DBaaS streamlines your database management tasks while ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.

2023-11-03

Halloween Greetings from Elastx

Autumn is an intense time for many. Projects must be completed before the end of the year, and plans for the upcoming business year must be meticulously detailed, all while the days grow shorter. Halloween may not be the most prominent holiday in the North, but we believe it presents an excellent opportunity to take a well-deserved break from the autumn rush.

2023-10-30

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Checklist for Safe Cloud Platform Operations

Using cloud services has many advantages over traditional management or maintaining on-site infrastructure. However, the cloud environment can be challenging to navigate. To aid your decision-making, we've crafted this guide outlining important considerations when selecting a cloud platform.

2023-10-23

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Prorenata’s Strategic Move: Bringing Their Application Back Home

Prorenata was founded with the idea of simplifying school healthcare documentation. The rapidly growing company holds a leading position in the medtech market for developing electronic health record systems within the school sector. Through the partnership with Elastisys, a Managed Kubernetes Platform provider, and Elastx, an infrastructure provider, Prorenata can ensure that all data stays within Sweden's borders and that their service providers fall under Swedish/EU jurisdiction. They can also create the best conditions for further developing a modern cloud-native application with best-in-class security and compliance posture.

2023-10-16

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Experience the power of GPU in our platform, built for mission-critical services

AI has truly taken off, and we have witnessed a significant increase in demand for running workloads for Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Therefore, we are thrilled to now offer market-leading GPU capacity in the Elastx Cloud Platform. AI and data analytics are strategic investments for Elastx, and GPU is just the beginning. With the same reliability and sustainability as our other services, we can now, together with our customers, continue to build powerful and valued services.

2023-07-05

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Tobias Tree - Sharing knowledge and saving lives

It was during the summer of 2020 that Elastx first got in touch with Michael Kaufmann, the founder of Tobias Tree. "It is our duty to use the technology we have to make the world a better place," says Henrik Grankvist, COO of Elastx. Today, the application is managed by Chorus and hosted on Elastx's platforms.

2023-03-06

Meet Ronny Roos, Chairman of the Board at Elastx

On a sunny afternoon before a board meeting, we had the pleasure of meeting Ronny Roos and asking him some questions. Ronny greeted us with a warm smile and a box of chocolates to mark the occasion. This thoughtful gesture speaks volumes about Ronny's background and the values he upholds in his crucial role of supporting entrepreneur-driven companies on their growth journey with empathy and a wealth of experience.

2023-02-27

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The Swedish cloud provider

Today, Elastx is a highly sought-after alternative for companies that deliver business-critical services with sensitive data. But how did it all start?

2023-02-07

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Cutting edge network: we're upgrading to Ludicrous Speed!

As you may be aware, we have three Availability Zones (AZ) in our platform. Each zone is a fully separate data center located 20km apart from each other. This design serves to ensure that you can deliver business-critical services with maximum uptime. In the unlikely event of an issue impacting one data center, your services will remain available through the other two.

2023-01-25

Elastx sets the standard for green cloud providers

Carbon emissions may not be the first thing that comes to mind when using the internet, but the fact remains that the internet is a major contributor to global CO2 emissions. The infrastructure that supports our digital landscape requires a significant amount of energy to function. As we spend more time online, it is important to consider the environmental impact of our actions. By utilizing renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, to power data centers, we can work towards reducing carbon emissions.

2023-01-24

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Internship at Elastx: reflections from an aspiring developer

Fredrika Carlsén, an intern in the development team at Elastx, shares her thoughts on LIA.

2023-01-11

Why financial institutions are turning to Swedish cloud providers

The past few years have been marked by numerous significant events, including a severe global pandemic, war in Europe, and disruptions to production and logistics chains that have led to inflation. Amidst all of these events, there have also been numerous new regulations, including EU directives with demanding requirements for change to ensure regulatory compliance.

2022-12-16

Why the financial industry needs redundancy

It is clear that relying on a single data center is not sufficient. If the data center experiences downtime or a complete failure, it will significantly impact your business operations. Having two data centers may seem like a more secure solution, but there is still a risk of a single point of failure if one center has to take over for the other.

2022-11-04

Why do you want IaC?

When I see the automation of Infrastructure as Code work throughout the whole process I get a warm feeling in my body and when you can share this automation so that everyone can benefit from it, that’s when the magic happens. Imagine the enormous feeling of well being and power when your entire Nextcloud environment is deployed in a highly available fashion, in just minutes, based on code which can be reused, modified and shared. No more having to manually wade through service providers web GUIs, no more repetition of thousands of commands, but just one, source repository, which can be reused time and time again.

2022-09-15

10 things to consider when choosing a cloud platform

As the use of cloud platforms continues to grow, it is important to carefully evaluate potential cloud providers. One can easily be tempted to choose one of the large American providers out of convenience, but there are several key factors to consider before making a decision. These include security measures and policies, data ownership and control, reliability and uptime, the location of the provider's data centers, and pricing and contract terms. Use our 10 point checklist to ensure that you select the right cloud provider for your business.

2022-07-12

Elastisys Kubernetes Platform as a Service is now available at Elastx

We are excited to announce that the Elastisys Kubernetes Platform as a Service (KPaaS) is now available on Elastx infrastructure! This means that users of our infrastructure can now benefit from a fully managed and secure Kubernetes environment, where platform operation, security, support, and rolling updates are included as part of the service.

2022-05-24

Cloud support for Ukraine

We believe that the best way we can support Ukraine is with the services we provide and the knowledge we have. Thereby we will support Ukrainian companies with a number of services for free or to highly discounted prices. We do not have unlimited resources but we will help as many as we can.

2022-04-19

Security features in Virtuozzo

We receive many questions from our customers about various security features and how to approach security in their Virtuozzo (formerly Jelastic) environment. To provide some guidance on this topic, we would like to discuss a few key principles of security. Some fundamental principles to consider when working on security are separation of services, not putting all your resources in one place, and the principle of least privilege. In this article, we will specifically focus on network isolation and discuss its importance in maintaining a secure environment.

2022-03-28

Refunder keeps growing at Elastx

Refunder is Sweden's largest cashback service. Their members get cashback for online purchases. Refunder evolved from a start-up into a powerful scale-up of their Swedish operations. Their rapid growth requires the right infrastructure and Refunder chose Elastx as their platform.

2022-02-24

Prorenata moves home

Prorenata was founded to simplify healthcare documentation. Therefore it makes sense to also simplify their own IT-environment. Prorenata is growing rapidly with a leading role in Healthcare Journalling Systems. Partnership with Elastx allows Prorenata to store their data in Sweden and enables a continuous improvement of their IT-environment.

2022-01-03

Apache Log4j 2 Vulnerabilities

Apache Log4j 2 is a popular Java logging library. During December 2021, Apache released new versions to address several vulnerabilities.

2021-12-21

Elastx is now integrated with Backup Ninja to automate your opensource database backups easily

Backup management includes the activities of creating, deleting, storing, restoring, and monitoring of the backup process. It is an essential component of any disaster recovery strategy. Although it is vital to have backup management, it can be a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive process. Having to take daily backups with constant monitoring (to ensure the backups are in a usable state) often requires a dedicated technical resource to manage it effectively. Without periodic checks, backups may be obsolete or invalid, which will slow down the recovery process if disaster strikes. Backup and recovery at the database level is even more challenging, as it requires complex scripts to handle the backup of the individual storage engine. Automated backup management services offer a wide range of features to automate the backup and restoration task for databases, files, and directories and effortlessly store them securely either locally or on the cloud. Automated backup management is ideal for resolving the setbacks of manual backup management.

2021-01-04

Zebware, an Elastx partner

We think it is important to be loosely connected to the platforms you work with to avoid lock-in scenarios and the ability to store data with confidence. With our new partner Zebware and their product Orchesto you can achieve this.

2020-11-20

Elastx provides a Kubernetes-based solution that meets our standards concerning safety and availability

Security, uptime, and a guarantee that data never leave the EU were some of the requirements that Vilja, a Swedish fintech company, had in their search for a new private cloud supplier. The company needed a more agile platform to continue to be a leader in the industry. – We wanted a company committed to develop and grow together with us. Already within a month after our first meeting we started our journey to create an even more scalable and secure platform, says Erik Nyfelt, VP Operations at Vilja.

2020-02-21

Bonnier News chose Elastx to create their new digital platform

In connection to their 150th anniversary in 2013 Bonnier News decided to leave the old manual server system and make a step towards a fully automated platform. They chose Elastx for the job, complemented by tools from HashiCorp.

2019-02-08

Leading DDoS protection for our clients

We are happy to announce our partnership with DDoS security experts Baffin Bay Networks. They will be protecting our Cloud Infrastructure and our customers by using their DDoS Protection and Threat Intelligence platform.

2019-01-08

Can you keep a single security strategy in a multi-cloud environment?

A guest blogpost by James Tucker, Director of System Engineering at Baffin Bay Networks

2018-12-07

Elastx is now a member of MANRS

We are happy to inform you that Elastx is now a member of MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security).

2018-12-02

Risks with Cloud-IT outside of Sweden

Today, Swedish as well as international companies have the opportunity to get their cloud-based IT operations handled by major suppliers such as AWS, Google and Azure. A service with security that is taken for granted. Something the customer always counts with is that the data stored with the supplier is always taken care of and may only be handled by the customer himself.

2018-11-20

We are now CNCF members

We are proud to inform you that ELASTX is now a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

2018-09-03

Cloud Act - time to bring our data storage home

As some of you already heard or read, a new law has emerged in the United States, where US cloud suppliers and IT companies are now forced to disclose data to US authorities, they have chosen to name it Cloud Act.

2018-05-07

Elastx keeps offering industry leading DDoS protection

We have chosen to work with Baffin Bay Networks to protect our Cloud Infrastructure and our customers by using their DDoS Protection and Threat Intelligence platform.

2018-03-07

Elastx and HashiCorp become Technology Partners

It is of high importance for us at Elastx to be given the freedom to work in open source based cloud environments with no lock-in solutions. We believe that this is the core to gaining constant new knowledge in the field as well as to give a larger freedom for the developer. And it is as important to be able to give our customers the same opportunities.

2018-03-07

Key Cloud Benefits for Emakina

Recently Emakina, a digital marketing agency, shared with us their feedback about using Elastx Virtuozzo PaaS. Today we are glad to share our interview with Fredrik Larsson, Senior Developer from Emakina.

2017-10-08

Response times reduced from 250-300 to 3 milliseconds

Reforce International AB were in need of an IT platform with high performance which could easily scale up in capacity. Today Reforce use Elastx Virtuozzo (formerly Jelastic) PaaS as a backend.

2017-10-08

From a Single Instance Server to Microservices Freedom

Björn Lundén needed scaling options, as their number of users grew and they needed the ability to scale separate components of their app. After meetings with the Elastx team, they were introduced to freedom to innovate and optimize with their Virtuozzo (formerly Jelastic) PaaS.

2017-10-08

Digitalist - 50% Reduction in Build Times and Blazingly Fast!

Digital services firm Digitalist made the switch to Elastx Virtuozzo (formerly Jelastic) PaaS and experienced some very positive improvements.

2017-07-08

Getting started with application backups to Swift

Swift cloud object storage is ideal for storing your application backups. Here are 3 ways to move your backups to the cloud.

2017-04-07

To make this possible we use bleeding edge Technology

Imagine being able to see your healthcare records directly on your computer or smart phone and also being able to share this information with your doctor - wouldn’t that be great?

2016-10-08

Automating infrastructure with Terraform on OpenStack

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the most basic cloud model, giving you the ability to create your own infrastructure resources such as networks, firewalls, load balancers, different kind of storage and of course servers.

2016-09-20

Building a portable, scalable, reusable Deployment Pipeline for an arbitrarily complex environment (part 3)

This is the last of three posts about building an advanced deployment pipeline.

2015-12-23

Building a portable, scalable, reusable Deployment Pipeline for an arbitrarily complex environment (part 2)

This is the second of three posts about building an advanced deployment pipeline.

2015-12-23

Building a portable, scalable, reusable Deployment Pipeline for an arbitrarily complex environment (Part 1)

This is the first of three posts about building an advanced deployment pipeline.

2015-12-18

Simple, yet performant Wordpress sites on Virtuozzo PaaS

We’ve created a simple one-click Wordpress install for Virtuozzo (formerly Jelastic) that’s prepared with some basic fine tuning both for Nginx, PHP and Wordpress itself. It comes preinstalled with w3 total cache plugin and Hannari Blue theme.

2015-06-23

Get Drupal 8 up and running within 5 minutes

Drupal 8 is about to reach its first release candidate. We are very excited and would like to celebrate it, therefore we have created a one click installer so you can test Drupal 8 in our Virtuozzo (formerly Jelastic) platform!

2015-06-15

Backups in OpenStack cloud

I have worked a lot with backups over the years and one thing I have learned is that managing a traditional backup solution often takes too much time, consumes too much resources and costs too much. But what about backups in a cloud environment? I still have important data and a lot of servers that need to be up and running. True, but if you do it right from the beginning you can take a fundamentally different approach to data protection and like many other things in the cloud it is a huge improvement. These are my general rules that I will describe more in details.

2015-03-31

Spin up CoreOS on OpenStack using Vagrant

CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been rearchitected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience.

2014-10-31

Easy High Availability

If you application is business critical and you think high availability and disaster protection is too complex and expensive then this is for you. We will show you how to setup two sites and use a couple of SaaS services for site fail-over and monitoring. These powerful tools will cost you the massive amount of about $10 per month.

2013-12-16

Now in Sweden - True autoscaling and volume discounts

“With these changes Virtuozzo (formerly Jelastic) gets even further ahead of its competition and becomes extremely cost effective for small and large-scale production deployments alike.” - Ruslan Synytsky, COO, Virtuozzo

2013-03-18

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