The August 2020 edition of the Cloud Native Computing Meetup took place on August 27th. It was the first time that the event took place online, and we thank all our attendees and speakers for a successful edition!
You can watch the full video here or you can subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Many thanks to the speakers for the interesting talks! Please download all the presentation slides (in PDF format) right here:

• Adrian Kosmaczewski, VSHN, “Quick recap on KubeCon 2020 and update on Project Syn”
• Simon Krenger, Red Hat, “Operators and Operator Framework”
• Jürgen Etzlstorfer, Dynatrace, “Overcoming scalability issues in your Prometheus ecosystem”
• Roman Bachmann, Swisscom, “Cloud Native Buildpacks to unite PaaS and CaaS”

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we will be very happy to see many of you again at one of our next events. Subscribe to the Cloud Native Computing Meetup group to stay updated, and see you soon!

On Wed. Jan 29 2020 the Red Hat Forum Austria 2020 took place in Vienna at the Messe Wien Congress Center. Partners, end customers and people interested in technology met to talk about future topics of the IT industry: container, hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, interoperability, flexibility, agility and security.

The Red Hat Forum is the ideal place to learn how to successfully meet these challenges. It is a place to learn, network, and experience open source. It’s a combination of inspiration and action to build on what already exists, and it connects business and technology.

VSHN in Vienna as Red Hat CCSP

As Red Hat Advanced CCSP (Certified Cloud and Service Provider) Business Partner, of course VSHN couldn’t miss the opportunity to be on site in Vienna as well.

Impressions from Red Hat Forum Austria

We were there to see for ourselves, meet familiar faces and make new contacts. The forum included exciting talks, workshops and breakout sessions.

Horst Thieme Head of Sales Specialists Cloud, Middleware, OpenShift and Storage DACH, Red Hat

Erfolgsfaktoren für High-Availability Setups mit OpenShift 4.x, Guido Greber und Sebastian Eidner von Accenture

The team of our partner cloudWerkstatt was also on site with a booth, thank you again for the delicious espresso! 🙂

APPUiO was also indirectly represented! 🙂  

Wrapup by Udo Urbantschitsch, Managing Director Austria Red Hat.

Conclusion from Red Hat Forum Austria

The Red Hat Forum is always a great place to exchange ideas and experiences and simply to make contacts. The Vienna Edition was no exception.
In any case, we had a lot of fun, were able to take some of it with us and are already looking forward to the Red Hat Forum Switzerland 2020 in Zurich.

After winning the Digital Economy Award 2019, VSHN was invited by the swissICT association to the ICT networking party on January 23 2020 in the Kursaal Bern.
As a new member of swissICT, we were able to experience a very nice evening with interesting guests and speakers. The first speaker of the evening was National Councillor Marcel Dobler, President of ICTswitzerland. Electronic identity (E-ID) in particular was one of his topics, followed by more flexible labour laws. Afterwards, things got a little more humorous with columnist Rolf Dobelli, cabaret artist Florian Schroeder and comedian Regula Esposito, better known as Helga Schneider

More impressions in the media

https://www.computerworld.ch/business/veranstaltung/kunst-kampf-an-ict-networkingparty-2020-2459452.html

https://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2020-01-24/die-ict-branche-startet-heiter-ins-neue-jahrzehnt

VSHN takes part in all DACH Red Hat Forums 2020

To celebrate our Red Hat Advanced CCSP (Certified Cloud and Service Provider) business partnership, VSHN is participating in the Red Hat Forum 2020 in Germany and Austria. Meet us in Darmstadt and Vienna!

Red Hat Forum Germany 2020

Red Hat Forum Germany on January 14 2020 in Darmstadt.

The Red Hat Forum presents the latest and greatest open source technologies in cloud computing, platform, virtualization, middleware, storage, and systems management. Visit us in the digital city of Darmstadt and learn how open source can change your business.

Red Hat Forum Austria 2020

Red Hat Forum Austria on January 29 2020 in Vienna.. 

The Red Hat Forum is the ideal place to learn how you can successfully meet these challenges. It is a place to learn, network, and experience open source. It’s the combination of inspiration and action to build on what you already have. Choose from exciting sessions with Red Hat experts as well as our technology partners and many other professionals with whom you can share your experiences. Visit the Red Hat Forum in Vienna and learn how open source can change your business.

Let’s meet

Let us know if you are there and we will meet you for a coffee. 🙂

Aarno had the pleasure of presenting his view of the cloud at the Glenfis Cloud Talk on Wednesday, 20 November 2019, together with other experts at the Clouds in the Prime Tower in Zurich.

Those who understand the cloud only as an IT topic have already lost

Many companies want to move their IT into the cloud, but how does that actually work? At the Glenfis Cloud Talk, visitors learned from three perspectives how to take advantage of the cloud and how to avoid obstacles. Daniel Wolf (Glenfis), Dominik Zemp (Microsoft), Aarno Aukia (VSHN) and Harald Häuschen (Helsana) gave inputs on the subject of cloud computing. (from left, Source: Network Media)

3 views of the cloud at the Glenfis Cloud Talk

Glenfis has invited to cloud talk in the Prime Tower. High above the roofs of Zurich, visitors learned from three perspectives how the promises of the cloud for more scalability and new business models can be implemented in everyday life.

Perspective one: the expert. After the welcome by Glenfis Managing Director Martin Andenmatten, the first speaker was Aarno Aukia. The CTO and founder of VSHN demonstrated the changes that the cloud makes necessary in a company’s IT operations. Read here how VSHN can offer data center services without a data center.

But first the basic question has to be clarified: Why actually go into the cloud? There are many advantages, said Aukia. But the main thing is that cloud IT can be used to obtain IT – when, where and how you want. Like electricity from the socket, a company can use the services it needs. The cloud operator makes sure that everything works. Usually better than you can do it yourself.
As simple as it sounds, however, the use of cloud services is not without its challenges. Aukia said that the cloud can only show its full strength with consistent automation. Security should not be neglected either. DevOps is the ideal operating model. But neither with this, nor with a wealth of tools, migration to the cloud is a sure thing. It also requires collaboration, less silo thinking, training and good leadership.

Read more

You can find the complete article in the netzwoche.

CNC meetup #5 2019

Our fifth Cloud Native Computing Meetup 2019 took place on November 7th at Ergon Informatik in Zurich. Many thanks to Ergon for providing the great premises and sponsoring the Apéro.

As always, the fifth CNC meetup 2019 was very well attended and after interesting talks we had an exciting round of talks in a great atmosphere, illuminated by several Philips Hue powered light bulbs. A dream for IoT and home automation fans. 

VSHN and CNCF

As official member of CNCF and first Swiss Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with the organization of the CNC-Meetups in Zurich and we sponsored the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 im Mai in Barcelona.

Agenda and Talks

Andri Steiner, Ops One: “Our journey to persistent K8s storage with Rook”

Andri’s slides:

Robert Altnoeder, LINBIT: “High performance storage for cloud environments”

Zoltán Majó and Raphael Zimmermann, Ergon: “Cloud Computing at Ergon”

Bottom line

Many thanks to the speakers for the exciting talks and the sponsor Ergon for the great location and the Apéro, especially the great beer selection! 

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we would be happy to see many of you again at the next Meetup.

Next Events

You can find our event overview at: https://vshn.ch/vshn/events/

Next CNC meetup Zurich

The next Cloud Native Computing Meetup Zurich will take place on Thursday 27 February 2020 at Swiss Life. We are already looking forward to it today and wish everyone a good time until then!

Thank you very much and see you soon.

VSHN at AWS Summit Switzerland 2019

As we previously announced, we are proud to have participated in the last AWS Summit Switzerland as Bronze Sponsors. The event happened on Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 in Trafo Baden.
It was a great opportunity to meet partners and customers, and to learn more about the thriving AWS ecosystem. It also shows the importance of Switzerland as a market, that Amazon / AWS decided to host a Summit here after starting their Swiss branch.
We hope to see more events like this in Switzerland and want to say a big thank you to all Amazon employees for the great organization of the AWS Summit.

VSHN was bronze sponsor at AWS Summit

It is pretty awesome that we were a sponsor of AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 at Trafo Baden among other big brands such as Intel, VMware, Datadog, Veeam, NGINX and many many more. 🙂

Thanks for visiting our booth!

The VSHNeers really enjoyed being part of AWS Summit 2019. Thanks everyone for stepping by our booth and for the nice conversations.
Take care and see you on the next event!
Your VSHNeers

About AWS Summit Switzerland

Join the AWS Summit Switzerland in Baden, meet our local team and learn how the cloud is accelerating innovation in companies of all sizes. During this free, one-day event, you’ll get to know the AWS platform in breakout sessions covering a wide range of topics from new services and architectures to performance and operations. You also have the opportunity to hear from Swiss customers about their journey to the cloud.
Whether you’re just getting into the cloud or an experienced user, come and learn something new at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019.

Forum EPFL 2019

On Tuesday, October 8th, the VSHN team participated in the Forum EPFL 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Forum EPFL is the largest recruitment event in Switzerland.
It was a fantastic opportunity to meet talented engineers in the French-speaking side of the country!

Start-Up Day

About Forum EPFL

The 37th edition of Switzerland’s largest recruitment fair took place from the 7th to the 11th of October 2019.

APPUiO at the Cloud Computing Conference 2019 in Germany

APPUiO participated 2019 as Cloud Native Loft Sponsor at the Cloud Conferences of the Vogel IT-Academy in Bonn, Hanau, Hamburg and Munich.

What is the Cloud Computing Conference #CONCLOUD?

The Cloud 2019 Technology & Services Conference (#CONCLOUD) is organized annually by the Vogel IT Academy. In the event series the following topics were covered in lectures, live demos and technology outlooks:

• We are in the middle of a time change – from On Premises safely into the Cloud!
• Transfer existing legacies into hybrid cloud stacks or already into multi-cloud environments
• Containers and Microservices

The dates of the CLOUD Conference 2019:

• 10.09. Bonn
• 17.09. Hanau FFM
• 19.09. Hamburg
• 26.09. Munich

APPUiO Container Platform Pitch from Aarno Aukia (in German)

Success Story APPUiO & Flexis: From the Road to the Cloud (in German)

Success Story by APPUiO and Flexis at the Cloud Conference Hamburg 2019: From the Road to the Cloud – Optimization of Logistics Processes with Docker, Kubernetes and APPUiO.

Presentation From the Road to the Cloud (in German)

Impressions of Cloudcomputing Conference

Conclusion Cloud Conference 2019

The CLOUD 2019 was an extremely exciting series of events for us, which brought us together with various companies in Germany that more or less all face the same challenges. How do I choose Cloud Native? How do I convince traditional IT departments of container technology, Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift? How can I be faster than my competitors and still trust in the security of my important company data despite using innovative technology? Thank you very much for all the great conversations and some great input, we will be happy to contribute it to APPUiO.
APPUiO would like to thank all visitors who visited our booth, all participants and partners and of course the organizers of the Vogel IT Academy, who made the CLOUD 2019 Technology & Services Conference a unique platform around cloud topics again this year!
See you next time and many greetings.
Your APPUiO Team

About APPUiO

With APPUiO.ch we have created a container platform based on Red Hat OpenShift on which we can offer Managed Services as a PaaS solution (Platform-as-a-Service) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises. Based on proven Open Source concepts like Docker and Kubernetes you develop, operate and scale an application according to your needs. With APPUiO, your applications can be run on public clouds as well as in-house. The platform was originally developed in 2015 by the two IT specialists Puzzle ITC and VSHN AG for the professionalization of internal IT. Today APPUiO is used productively by many customers and is supported by a strong community.

VSHN is Bronze Sponsor at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 in Baden

We are very happy to be Bronze Sponsor at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 in Baden.

Visit us at our booth at the AWS Summit

Visit us at our booth at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019 in Baden and learn more about VSHN and our future plans with AWS.

Details AWS Summit

Explore our rich agenda and immerse yourself in your core theme or take part in a starter session to learn something new. All topics are delivered by experts from AWS, partners or expert clients who share their practical experience.

• Where? Trafo Baden, Brown Boveri Pl. 1, 5400 Baden, Switzerland
• When? Wednesday October 2, 2019
• What? The following topics will be covered at the AWS Summit:
  • Machine Learning
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Database Migration
  • Security
• Mehr information can be found on the official AWS Summit website

About AWS Summit Switzerland

Join the AWS Summit Switzerland in Baden, meet our local team and learn how the cloud is accelerating innovation in companies of all sizes. During this free, one-day event, you’ll get to know the AWS platform in breakout sessions covering a wide range of topics from new services and architectures to performance and operations. You also have the opportunity to hear from Swiss customers about their journey to the cloud.
Whether you’re just getting into the cloud or an experienced user, come and learn something new at the AWS Summit Switzerland 2019.

Red Hat Forum Zurich 2019

Also this year we attended Red Hat Forum Switzerland in Zurich with APPUiO as sponsor and with a booth on site. In 2019 the event took place at StageOne in Oerlikon and the number of visitors this year was even higher than in the last years. About 900 participants found their way to the 8th Red Hat Forum.

Red Hat and IBM

In addition to Open Source, DevOps, Microservices and Containers, the takeover of Red Hat by IBM was of course another big topic that was discussed extensively this year. But both the Red Hat management team and each individual employee are convinced that Red Hat will remain in its current form and that IBM will create new opportunities for them. So far, there have been absolutely no differences in day-to-day business. For Red Hat, IBM is “shareholder and partner at the same time”, which would open many new doors.

APPUiO at Red Hat Forum

APPUiO had a booth on site and were very happy to see many familiar faces again, but we also made many new contacts. Great keynotes and breakout sessions as well as a great ambience made the Red Hat Forum a special event. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizers and the super friendly service staff!

TeamAPPUiO

There were even red Clouds!

Our latest joint project. APPUiO on Philips. 🙂

APPUiO beerup

After the official part of the Red Hat Forum APPUiO invited to a beerup. The number of visitors was even bigger than last time in Sihlcity – it felt like half of the Red Hat Forum crowd also joined our beerup. 🙂

But only those who were in possession of a golden ticket were let in by the strict admission control. 🙂

In a pleasant atmosphere with many nice people and a wonderful late summer evening we had some drinks after the Red Hat Forum in the Giesserei in Oerlikon and had great conversations. We would like to thank all visitors and are looking forward to the next time! (PS: if you want to have a look at the Red Hat Forum 2018 impressions, you can find our blog post here)
See you soon and take care.
Your APPUiO team

APPUiO – Swiss Container Platform

With APPUiO.ch, we created the Swiss container platform based on Red Hat OpenShift, where we provide managed services on a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises. Reliable open source concepts such as Docker and Kubernetes allow you to develop, operate and scale your application according to your needs. With APPUiO, your applications can be operated both on public clouds as well as on in-house data centers. The platform was originally built by the two IT specialists Puzzle ITC and VSHN AG to professionalize internal IT. Today, APPUiO is already used in production by several customers and supported by a strong community.

World class ice hockey in Sursee

The Lehner Cup 2019 is already history again. With a 5 : 3 victory against the team from Kazakhstan, Barys Nur-Sultan (HK Barys Astana), the EV Zug secured its second tournament victory at the Lehner Cup after 2014. Congratulations to the team from Central Switzerland. The EHC Sursee would like to thank all sponsors for their valuable support and all spectators for visiting this year’s Lehner Cup.

VSHN was sponsor of the Lehner Cup 2019

Following a few impressions of the great ice hockey event.
More infos can be found on www.lehnercup.ch.
We are looking forward to next year! 🙂

Our fourth Cloud Native Computing Meetup 2019 took place on August 29th at VMware Switzerland in the Dell EMC Cafeteria in Zurich. Many thanks to VMware for providing the great premises and sponsoring the Apéro. As always, the fourth CNC-Meetup 2019 was very well attended and after interesting talks we had an exciting round of talks in a pleasant atmosphere.

As official member of CNCF and first Swiss Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with the organization of the CNC-Meetups in Zurich and we sponsored the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 im Mai in Barcelona.

Agenda and Talks

Christian Mäder, nxt Engineering: “Efficient software development with docker-compose”

Cojan van Ballegooijen, Cloudbees, Running CI/CD with CloudBees and VMWare Cloud PKS (https://www.slideshare.net/secret/8dVb5g02NfGwNd)

Running CI/CD with VMWare Cloud PKS and Jenkins X from Cojan van Ballegooijen

Nick Jones, D2iQ, formerly known as Mesosphere: “Introducing KUDO – Kubernetes Operators The Easy Way!”Introducing KUDO – Kubernetes Operators, The Easy Way from Nick Jones

Summary

Many thanks to the speakers for the exciting talks and the sponsor VMware for the great location and the Apéro. In addition to the obligatory pizza, there were also delicious salads and a great selection of beer! 

We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we would be happy to see many of you again at the next Meetup.

Next events

Our event overview: https://vshn.ch/vshn/events/

Next CNC-Meetup Zurich

The next CNC Meetup will take place on Thu. November 7. We are already looking forward to it today and wish everyone a good time until then!

Thanks and see you soon!