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The current legislation has been in place for 20 years, but now the European Commission has two renewed legislative initiatives to improve digital services within the EU. The Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It didn’t just happen overnight; they presented the proposals in December 2020, and the political agreement followed on 25 March 2022 (DMA) and 23 April 2022 (DSA). The European Commission called it ‘an ambitious reform of the digital space, a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media and other online platforms operating in the EU’.

Name: Bram Jobtitle: Python Developer/Backend Developer Employed at Fuga since March 1, 2022 What is your background (education, interests, experience, etc.)? I am very broadly interested. I like sports, currently in the form of mountain biking. Gaming also remains a fun activity, in which I also vary a lot in what I play. I also like to be creative, you can think of Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects. But I also love to draw on paper, make models from cardboard and tinker with wood.

On Sunday evening, March 20, 2022, we can be found with the entire team at the test location in the Netherlands. We have packed our bags, loaded the cars with our stand and materials, and reserved seats for the train. For some of us, it will be the first visit to CloudFest others have been there before. The previous editions of CloudFest brought the global cloud computing industry together but it looks like the 2022 edition will be more European oriented, given the (Covid) circumstances.

The GAIA-X project started at the end of 2020. A collaboration of European companies and organizations to counterbalance the hegemony of the heavyweights in the Cloud, such as Google Cloud, AWS, Azure and Alibaba Cloud. After all, the US Cloud Act is not offering nearly as much data sovereignty as what is contained within the GDPR. And yet, the Americans control about 70% of the market. At the end of November 2021, one of the first proponents of the project, Scaleway (cloud branch of the French operator Iliad), withdrew from the project.

Name: Lars Jobtitle: Full Stack Engineer and Security Officer Employed at Fugue since 2017 What is your background (education, interests, experience, etc.)? I have a graphic background. My parents were both graphic designers and owned an advertising agency in Alkmaar. There I spent many hours in Photoshop and Painter. Years later, I bought my first modem and published my first website. While using the internet, I also learned about programming, databases and web servers.

1. Meet all the requirements of the GDPR The Dutch requirements for secure data storage are very strict. And for many standards and certificates, you have to meet these requirements. The fact that Microsoft or Google are building data centers in the Netherlands does not mean that they instantly comply with the GDPR. They fall out of it. The rules apply to the location of the mother company and not to the physical location of the servers.

With Fuga Cloud, you can now also use High-performance GPUs. But what does a GPU do? And what is the difference with a CPU? When can’t you live without it? CPU stands for Central Processing Unit, perhaps better known as processor and is part of a compute server. The CPU is the so-called brain of a computer, this part is responsible for executing computer programs, the calculations and instructions of a program.

These are the hands of … Thomas Thomas is our new intern and would like to introduce himself. We have high hopes for this new team member as he has set the record for “rolling out OpenStack by interns”. Hi, my name is Thomas, and today I introduce myself :) For the Technical Informatics course, I will be doing my graduation internship at Fuga Cloud for half a year. Here they have a lot of expertise from OpenStack and I’m going to do research on collecting performance data from compute instances.

What is Cloud Computing? Cloud Computing is the term used for the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet, where you only pay for what you use. So you do not physically own a data center or server, but rent it from a cloud provider. The advantage is that you can use all the computing power, storage and databases you need (and often upscaling or downsizing within a few clicks), without having to take care of maintenance.

When did you start at the Cyso Group? I have been working at Cyso Group for 6.5 years. I started as a web designer/marketer at Cyso in the Internet Editorial department. Here we developed and maintained all communication activities of Cyso. Not much later we developed the first portal of an OpenStack project within Cyso. This eventually became Fuga Cloud. The marketing department has also taken the first steps in realizing a shared hosting company, called SQR.

The Cloud in your own region. Nowadays we all have a thing for The Cloud. But what exactly is The Cloud? And if it can be accessed via the internet, what do all those different locations matter? Who cares where the cloud is located? The Cloud is especially useful because you can access your files anywhere, anytime, as long as you have internet access. Another big advantage is that providers only charge for what you actually use.

the period of time when a computer, system, etc. is being used without any problems. What that means in real time: Uptime Total downtime per year 99.00000% 3 days, 15 hours and 39 minutes 99.90000% 8 hours, 45 minutes and 56 seconds 99.99000% 52 minutes and 35 seconds 99.99900% 5 minutes and 15 seconds 99.

When did you start at the Cyso Group? I started May 1 as a Webmaster / Marketer at Fuga Cloud And? How did you experience the reception? Nice. Warmly. Friendly. Despite the Covid measures and working from home, everyone is doing their best to make you welcome and feel at home. You now work as a webmaster at an IT company. Where do you see your love for technology?

De world is one big Cloud Today, the Cloud can no longer be ignored in our lives. Whether it concerns online services to arrange your banking affairs, online shopping, email, file storage or social media, almost everything goes via the Cloud. And thanks to that Cloud, it was also possible that we all could work from home during the lock-down. Companies have embraced wholeheartedly tools and have started managing projects online, meeting online and sharing or storing files online.

In September 2015, the birth of Fuga Cloud Platform became a fact. A public cloud developed by Cyso, one of the last independent hosting providers in the Netherlands. We have used our knowledge and expertise, which we have acquired in the field of cloud in the past 20 years, for the development of Fuga Cloud. Last September we celebrated the three-year anniversary of Fuga Cloud. In these three years, tens of thousands of instances have been launched and we are proud of that.

In the last two years, we worked hard with a dedicated team of DevOps engineers, developers and cloud specialists to develop the next major release of the Fuga Cloud Platform. We are finally able to proudly announce the newest release of Fuga Cloud. Our first release (launched in 2015) has proven to be a rock-solid cloud solution with OpenStack at its core. We encountered enough challenges and improvements to develop an entirely new platform, of course, with OpenStack at its core.

Wikidata is the linked database maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation, which also maintains Wikipedia. As an online encyclopedia, Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites worldwide. Started in 2001 as an English website it currently has versions in more than 290 languages and is still growing. All these (connected) Wikipedias are running on a software platform called Mediawiki. This Mediawiki stack has been released as open software to general public and has since been used in many, many cases outside the Wikimedia ecosystem.

We live in exciting times, the fast technological developments are stacking up and before we know it we’re going to be in self-driving cars and on our way to colonize Mars. Okay well, maybe it’ll take a while before this all happens. However, today I have exciting news because I’m allowed to talk about the development of our second region and especially some new features you can expect in the near future.

In this new update you learn more about APIs. Not in a reading mood? No worries. Relax and enjoy our podcast below. Fuga Cloud is based on OpenStack, an open-source software platform. It contains many different projects and applications which all communicate with each other using APIs. Each project has a specific job in the cloud ecosystem. We offer a user-friendly dashboard to easily manage your infrastructure, which in turn uses the APIs to communicate and execute the requests that are made by the user in the dashboard to other parts of the Fuga Cloud.

In this new update you learn more about the improvements we’re currently working on in the field of UI / UX. Not in a reading mood? No worries. Relax and enjoy our podcast below. In 2015 Fuga Cloud was born. A 100% IaaS service created by the team behind the Dutch Managed Service Provider, Cyso. A service that makes it as easy as possible to launch a VM within a few seconds without the intervention of a cloud provider.

In this new update you learn more about our road towards launching a complete new region at Fuga Cloud. Not in a reading mood? No worries. Relax and enjoy our podcast below. The road to a new Cloud region. It’s a fun, but bumpy ride. One of the most asked features for Fuga Cloud is an extra region. That’s why we are working hard to develop a new region. And it needs to be even better than the first region we launched back in 2015.