As of today the CloudVPS Object Store is available. An object store can be used to easily store files in the cloud and make them available through an API or URL. This makes an object store ideal for images, movies, backups and many other types of files. The popularity of object stores is starting to grow rapidly now, especially with developers and parties that want to store large numbers of files.

Advantages of an object store:

• You only pay for your usage of storage, traffic and the API.
• Your data is stored three times within two datacenters.
• Files will be available from multiple locations.
• Enables API based programming.

Amazon S3 Alternative

A lot of object store users are using Amazon S3 at the moment. Our solution uses the popular OpenStack API which allows you to choose the provider you are doing business with. The CloudVPS Object Store is also significantly cheaper than Amazon S3. An other important advantage of our object store is that we are not subject to the US Patriot Act. This means US government services do not have access to your data and our solution can be used for privacy sensitive data.

For parties that are still using the S3 API exclusively, we have added an S3 emulation so you can use our object store with the S3 API.

Amazon does offer a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) option with its object store. This is relevant if data has to be available quickly in multiple continents. We will soon add CDN functionality ourselves.

OpenStack Swift

Our object store is based on OpenStack Swift. OpenStack is a fast growing collection of open source cloud infrastructure projects. This project has an enormous momentum with parties like VMware, NASA and HP contributing. We have decided to implement OpenStack for our entire infrastructure and the CloudVPS Object Store is just our first OpenStack based product.

We will be very active in adding functionality to OpenStack. We will contribute as many of our improvements to the object store as possible to the project. For instance, we have made it possible to use the Cyberduck client as a visual interface for the OpenStack object store. We are currently developing new authentication methods and are documenting and improving various SDKs (Software Development Kits).

Ordering and Paying

You can order the object store on our website. Your object store will be invoiced at the end of the month. If you are a new new customer you will have to pre-pay a one time sum of 10 Euros. If a lot of resources are being used during the first month an extra prepayment will have to be deposited. Customers with an existing invoicing relationship will not have to pre-pay when ordering an object store.

The cost of the object store depends on the storage used, the outgoing traffic and the API usage. Read more about the costs and invoicing of our object store in our knowledge base.

CloudVPS customers that also purchased a CloudVPS virtual server will be able to use the first 10 GB of object storage for free. For these customers 50,000 heavy API calls and 500,000 light API calls will also be available free of charge.

More Information

Some usefull links:
Object store page
Knowledge Base Introduction
Quickstart
GUI Clients
S3 Emulation
Pricing and Invoicing

Please contact sales if you have any questions regarding the possibilities of the CloudVPS Object Store.

As of today the CloudVPS Object Store is available. An object store can be used to easily store files in the cloud and make them available through an API or URL. This makes an object store ideal for images, movies, backups and many other types of files. The popularity of object stores is starting to grow rapidly now, especially with developers and parties that want to store large numbers of files.

Advantages of an object store:

• You only pay for your usage of storage, traffic and the API.
• Your data is stored three times within two datacenters.
• Files will be available from multiple locations.
• Enables API based programming.

Amazon S3 Alternative

A lot of object store users are using Amazon S3 at the moment. Our solution uses the popular OpenStack API which allows you to choose the provider you are doing business with. The CloudVPS Object Store is also significantly cheaper than Amazon S3. An other important advantage of our object store is that we are not subject to the US Patriot Act. This means US government services do not have access to your data and our solution can be used for privacy sensitive data.

For parties that are still using the S3 API exclusively, we have added an S3 emulation so you can use our object store with the S3 API.

Amazon does offer a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) option with its object store. This is relevant if data has to be available quickly in multiple continents. We will soon add CDN functionality ourselves.

OpenStack Swift

Our object store is based on OpenStack Swift. OpenStack is a fast growing collection of open source cloud infrastructure projects. This project has an enormous momentum with parties like VMware, NASA and HP contributing. We have decided to implement OpenStack for our entire infrastructure and the CloudVPS Object Store is just our first OpenStack based product.

We will be very active in adding functionality to OpenStack. We will contribute as many of our improvements to the object store as possible to the project. For instance, we have made it possible to use the Cyberduck client as a visual interface for the OpenStack object store. We are currently developing new authentication methods and are documenting and improving various SDKs (Software Development Kits).

Ordering and Paying

You can order the object store on our website. Your object store will be invoiced at the end of the month. If you are a new new customer you will have to pre-pay a one time sum of 10 Euros. If a lot of resources are being used during the first month an extra prepayment will have to be deposited. Customers with an existing invoicing relationship will not have to pre-pay when ordering an object store.

The cost of the object store depends on the storage used, the outgoing traffic and the API usage. Read more about the costs and invoicing of our object store in our knowledge base.

CloudVPS customers that also purchased a CloudVPS virtual server will be able to use the first 10 GB of object storage for free. For these customers 50,000 heavy API calls and 500,000 light API calls will also be available free of charge.

More Information

Some usefull links:
Object store page
Knowledge Base Introduction
Quickstart
GUI Clients
S3 Emulation
Pricing and Invoicing

Please contact sales if you have any questions regarding the possibilities of the CloudVPS Object Store.

As of today the CloudVPS Object Store is available. An object store can be used to easily store files in the cloud and make them available through an API or URL. This makes an object store ideal for images, movies, backups and many other types of files. The popularity of object stores is starting to grow rapidly now, especially with developers and parties that want to store large numbers of files.

Advantages of an object store:

• You only pay for your usage of storage, traffic and the API.
• Your data is stored three times within two datacenters.
• Files will be available from multiple locations.
• Enables API based programming.

Amazon S3 Alternative

A lot of object store users are using Amazon S3 at the moment. Our solution uses the popular OpenStack API which allows you to choose the provider you are doing business with. The CloudVPS Object Store is also significantly cheaper than Amazon S3. An other important advantage of our object store is that we are not subject to the US Patriot Act. This means US government services do not have access to your data and our solution can be used for privacy sensitive data.

For parties that are still using the S3 API exclusively, we have added an S3 emulation so you can use our object store with the S3 API.

Amazon does offer a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) option with its object store. This is relevant if data has to be available quickly in multiple continents. We will soon add CDN functionality ourselves.

OpenStack Swift

Our object store is based on OpenStack Swift. OpenStack is a fast growing collection of open source cloud infrastructure projects. This project has an enormous momentum with parties like VMware, NASA and HP contributing. We have decided to implement OpenStack for our entire infrastructure and the CloudVPS Object Store is just our first OpenStack based product.

We will be very active in adding functionality to OpenStack. We will contribute as many of our improvements to the object store as possible to the project. For instance, we have made it possible to use the Cyberduck client as a visual interface for the OpenStack object store. We are currently developing new authentication methods and are documenting and improving various SDKs (Software Development Kits).

Ordering and Paying

You can order the object store on our website. Your object store will be invoiced at the end of the month. If you are a new new customer you will have to pre-pay a one time sum of 10 Euros. If a lot of resources are being used during the first month an extra prepayment will have to be deposited. Customers with an existing invoicing relationship will not have to pre-pay when ordering an object store.

The cost of the object store depends on the storage used, the outgoing traffic and the API usage. Read more about the costs and invoicing of our object store in our knowledge base.

CloudVPS customers that also purchased a CloudVPS virtual server will be able to use the first 10 GB of object storage for free. For these customers 50,000 heavy API calls and 500,000 light API calls will also be available free of charge.

More Information

Some usefull links:
Object store page
Knowledge Base Introduction
Quickstart
GUI Clients
S3 Emulation
Pricing and Invoicing

Please contact sales if you have any questions regarding the possibilities of the CloudVPS Object Store.

Click to enlarge A couple of weeks ago we have successfully concluded our certification audits. The auditor, the international risk manager DNV has given a positive advice to the UKAS committee. This committee has adopted the recommendation of the auditor and we have received the official certificates last week. We are now officially ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certified and this includes the additional CloudControls as well. These certifications apply to all CloudVPS services.

ISO 27001 & NEN 7510

The ISO 27001 is an international security standard that applies to the entire Information Security Management System. Companies can choose which controls apply to their specific situation. We have declared all 133 controls to be applicable. The NEN 7510 is a Dutch standard for the healthcare sector, it is a stricter version of the ISO 27001 controls with a focus on the protection of patient data.

CloudControls

A lot of customers have questions regarding measures against cloud specific issues. Think about guarantees regarding information supply, the non existence of lock in risks and the neutralisation of risks related to the sharing of infrastructure with other parties. Together with KPMG and some other parties we have developed the CloudControls. These are 43 additional controls that mitigate cloud related risks. These controls were audited together with the ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 standards and integral an part of our certification.

Useful links

* The Statement Of Applicability (SOA), this is the list with certified controls (Excel sheet)
* List of cloud related risks, questions for your cloud provider and CloudControls (Excel sheet)
* Cloudcontrols website (Link)
* ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certificates (PDF)
* Initial Audit Report (Dutch) (PDF)
* Mitigating measures (Dutch). Here the mitigation of the two minor non-confiormities in the Audit Report are discussed. (PDF)
* Our certification page (Link)