The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from March 30 – April 2, 2020. Join Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, CoreDNS, containerd, Fluentd, TUF, Jaeger, Vitess, OpenTracing, gRPC, CNI, Notary, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Rook, Harbor, etcd, Open Policy Agent, CRI-O, TiKV, CloudEvents and Falco as the community gathers for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.
VSHN at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon
Also at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 in Amsterdam #VSHNeers will be onsite to see the latest developments and gather impressions.
Please contact us if you would like to meet us on site. We look forward to hearing from you!
Swiss CNC Get Together at the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon 2020 in Amsterdam
VSHN will again organize a Swiss CNC Get Together Meetup at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 in Amsterdam to bring together Swiss colleagues & friends in a relaxed atmosphere who are attending KubeCon.
Please register on our Cloud Native Computing Meetup page, if you want to participate in the Swiss CNC Get Together. We are looking forward to meeting you!
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! 🙂
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
What is the ICT networking party?
The ICT networking party is aimed at Swiss decision-makers in the IT and telecommunications industry who are interested in meeting with representatives from politics, business, science, associations, authorities and the media in a relaxed atmosphere. The ICT networking party takes place annually in January in the Kursaal Bern with over 1000 participants. The setting provides ample time and opportunity for an exchange of ideas with important exponents from the Swiss ICT scene. The umbrella organisationICTswitzerlandis responsible for the patronage and participation is by personal invitation only.
VSHN at Red Hat Forum 2020 in Darmstadt and Vienna
7. Jan 2020
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. 🙂
Zürich, 28.11.2019: VSHN wins gold at Digital Economy Award
VSHN wins gold at Digital Economy Award in the category Highest Digital Quality
Who would have thought? VSHN – The DevOps Company wins gold at the Digital Economy Award in the category Highest Digital Quality. We couldn’t be happier and would like to thank all #VSHNeers who made this success possible. The moment of certainty was captured on video by our friend David Kilchenmann from Puzzle, thank you very much, Dave! 😊
The Digital Economy Award Night
At the Digital Economy Award Night, 600 guests from the digital industry, research, business and politics celebrated the digital achievements of the year. The award ceremony took place in the Hallenstadion in Zurich in the presence of Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin.
Winner in the category Highest Digital Quality 2019: VSHN – The DevOps Company
Jury president Marcus Dauck:
«VSHN is setting a new benchmark for both SMEs and larger companies in the clearly defined service segment with the highest quality and strong global growth from Switzerland. As a young company, in a technologically rapidly changing environment, relying on sustainable but flexible services is not a matter of course and requires perseverance. Speed, focus and quality are at the highest level and have impressed the jury.»
The entire wording of the winning speech can be found in the official press release of the Digital Economy Award AG.
The Certificate Holders
At the Digital Economy Award Night on November 28, companies and organizations in five special disciplines were again awarded certificates: • Security: First Security Technology • Industrie 4.0: Side Effects • Lean, Agile & Scrum: SBB Informatik, VSHN, Aduno Gruppe / Viseca Cards Services SA, Five Up Community • Open Source: Zammad • User Experience: ti&m, Aduno Gruppe / Viseca Cards Services SA, interactive friends
About Digital Economy Award
The Digital Economy Award is organised by the ICT trade association swissICT and the specialist publisher Netzmedien AG and was created through a merger of the Swiss ICT Award and the Swiss Digital Transformation Award. The next award ceremony will take place on November 25 2020 in the Hallenstadion in Zurich.
All #VSHNeers celebrate the award together
The day after the Digital Economy Award, the entire team was able to take a look at the “Cup” at our Christmas party.
What’s next?
Even after winning the Digital Economy Award, it won’t get boring – have a look at our “Next Big Thing”, Project Syn.
#VSHN5 – the big party for the 5th birthday of VSHN
On November 20 2019 we celebrated #VSHN5 together with our partners and friends. The party for the 5th birthday of VSHN took place at Heile Welt in Zurich.
We would like to thank everyone who celebrated the evening with us, thank the organizers and look forward to the next 5 years! A special thank you goes to our friends from Puzzle ITC for the great surprise and the delicious birthday cake! 🍰😊
Review of 5 years of VSHN
Our CEO Patrick Mathers reviewed the past 5 years with several milestones and important dates.
Today and the future: VSHN Handbook & Project Syn
Tobias Brunner announced some fantastic and #VSHNary news: On the one hand, our public VSHN Handbook, which makes our corporate values and how we work together publicly accessible for everyone. On the other hand Project Syn, which is nothing less than the future of our Managed Services. We are looking forward to your feedback and are looking for interested beta testers for Project Syn!
Facts & Figures of 5 years VSHN
Data and facts from five years of VSHN.
Impressions of #VSHN5
As giveaway for our partners there was VSHNbeer
Did you like our giveaway? Tweet about it using #VSHN5. Cheers! 😄🍻
More impressions and tweets #VSHN5
Happy Birthday & congratz to you all @vshn_ch for 5 incredible years! 👏🎉 There could be no better partner in crime for our joint project @appuio! Thanks a lot & all the best for the on coming 5 years! 🤝💪 pic.twitter.com/HtSBHKMV92
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.
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.
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!
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 theAWS Summit Switzerland 2019.
Aarno Aukia
Aarno is Co-Founder of VSHN AG and provides technical enthusiasm as a Service as CTO.
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
Forum EPFL was accompanied by the 11th edition of the Start-Up Day happened on Tuesday, October 8th from 09:00 AM until 17:00 PM at the SwissTech Convention Center, on the EPFL’s campus.
Program of the day:
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM: Breakfast for entrepreneurs
09:00 AM – 05:00 PM: Stands & Student Corner
05:00 PM – 06:00 PM: Networking Cocktail
Looking for a job?
Have a look at our open positions and come by for a coffee to meet our team.
Thanks for visiting our booth!
The VSHNeers Tatjana, Soufiane and Adrian really enjoyed being part of Forum EPFL 2019. Thanks everyone for stepping my at our booth and for the nice conversations. Take care and see you on the next event! Your VSHNeers
About Forum EPFL
The 37th edition of Switzerland’s largest recruitment fair took place from the 7th to the 11th of October 2019.
Aarno Aukia
Aarno is Co-Founder of VSHN AG and provides technical enthusiasm as a Service as CTO.
Looking back: APPUiO at the Cloud Conferences Bonn, Hanau, Hamburg & Munich 2019
2. Oct 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)
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.
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:
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 theAWS Summit Switzerland 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.
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”
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.
topsoft 2019 is one of the most important Swiss IT trade fairs for systems, technologies and know-how for future-oriented companies. Together with our partners Batix, Webgate and Migros, VSHN exhibited at topsoft 2019.
topsoft at Umwelt Arena Spreitenbach
topsoft 2019 took place from 28 to 29 August in the Umwelt Arena in Spreitenbach and became the meeting place for the Swiss IT industry. Presentations, workshops and a large exhibition area provided variety and a great setting, bringing together trade visitors, influencers and decision-makers from Switzerland and abroad.
The VSHNeers on-site obviously had a lot of fun. 🙂
VSHN Workshop: Advantages of DevOps in practice
Our VSHNeers Matthias Indermühle and Markus Speth held a workshop on “Advantages of DevOps in Practice” on Wed. 28. August 2019: “How a lived DevOps culture improves cooperation and puts customer benefits in the foreground. In a world where software is becoming increasingly important, the success of a company increasingly depends on how quickly software can be developed and deployed. DevOps stands for a new culture and approach in the collaboration of previously separate departments. Development (software development) and Operations (IT operations) are pulling in the same direction to increase software quality and availability and thus to increase customer satisfaction”. https://www.topsoft.ch/lineup/vorteile-von-devops-in-der-praxis/
Slides of our DevOps Workshop
For those of you who couldn’t participate, here are our slides to watch (in German):
And if you feel like it, you can of course also take part in our DevOps Workshop Quiz:
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APPUiO Voucher Code
APPUiO Voucher Code for topsoft is: topsoft19 You can easily redeem the code on appuio.ch and receive 2048 MiB RAM / 1100 mC for 30 days for free (from the date of redemption).
Feedback and more about DevOps
As always, we are looking forward to any feedback and to seeing you again at a future event! If you want to learn more about DevOps, check out the Netzwoche article “DevOps in der Praxis”. Your VSHNeers
VSHN at the award ceremony for the Rising Star award Cloud Transformation/Operation Services & XaaS from ISG in Berlin
28. Jun 2019
VSHN receives Rising Star award
VSHN – The DevOps Company receives the award Rising Star of the ISG Provider Lens Switzerland 2019 study at the award ceremony night in Spreespeicher Berlin. We are of course very happy that we were able to place ourselves so successfully in the study alongside many well-known global players from the IT world. The VSHNeers Patrick Mathers (CEO) and Markus Speth (CMO) receive the Rising Star from ISG Director Heiko Henkes and are very pleased about the award.
Heiko Henkes statement about VSHN:
“We have been watching VSHN for several years now and our extensive research in 2019 has come to the conclusion that VSHN can be regarded as Unicorn and one of the most innovative IT service providers in the area of Cloud Transformation/Operation Services & XaaS. As an absolute expert in Managed Services and the operation of modern Container Platforms such as OpenShift and Kubernetes, VSHN supports many companies in an agile and innovative way both in Switzerland as well as internationally with their digital transformation and the implementation of a holistic DevOps strategy. VSHN relieves software developers in their daily work like no other company in Switzerland and despite the size of the company, VSHN is able to manage and scale large and complex projects thanks to sophisticated management & automation.”
Such kind words are of course very nice and at the same time underline our daily work and strategic orientation.
Importance of the award for VSHN
What does the Rising Star award mean for VSHN? On the one hand, the study confirms us in our daily work and in our strategy not to do everything ourselves, but to focus on the operation of modern hosting platforms and future technologies such as Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes, to automate and to cooperate with partners. On the other hand, the study results also confirm that Switzerland is a multi-cloud country and DevOps is “the way to go”. For this reason, we are extremely happy about the award as Rising Star and see it as a confirmation of our previous path and at the same time as an incentive to become even better in the future.
Berlin is always worth a visit, of course all the more so if you are receiving a prize. Following a few impressions of the ISG Provider Lens Award Ceremony Night 2019 at the Spreespeicher in Berlin on Wed. June 26 2019.
ISG annually awards the Rising Star to the product challenger with the highest potential for the future, which convinces in particular by its promising product portfolio and promising roadmap, focusing on key market trends and customer value. ISG defines the selection criteria of the Rising Star as follows:
“Rising Stars are mostly product challengers with high future potential. When receiving the “Rising Star” award, such companies have a promising portfolio, including the required roadmap and an adequate focus on key market trends and customer requirements. Also, the “Rising Star” has an excellent management and understanding of the local market. This award is only given to vendors or service providers that have made extreme progress towards their goals within the last 12 months and are on a good way to reach the leader quadrant within the next 12-24 months, due to their above-average impact and innovative strength.”
About ISG Provider Lens
In the Provider Lens, the market research company ISG rates Swiss cloud providers for the attractiveness of their product portfolio and their competitive strength. ISG is one of the leading market research and consulting companies in the information technology segment, helping more than 700 clients worldwide to achieve operational excellence. Customers have the proven expertise in innovative technology solutions, the industry’s most comprehensive database, and more than 50 years of experience and global leadership in an international information and consulting firm. ISG is based in Stamford, Connecticut with 21 locations worldwide and supports its customers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria through its locations in Frankfurt a. M., Kassel and Zurich.
About VSHN – The DevOps Company
VSHN is the leading Swiss partner for DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and 24/7 Cloud Operations. VSHN helps software developers run their applications agile and 24/7 on any infrastructure while relieving the burden on IT operations. Since 2014, we are managing more than 1500 servers in 20 different clouds as well as on-premises at customer locations with a total of more than 80’000 services for 300 different customers and partners. We are ISO 27001 certified and work to the strict FINMA guidelines to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer information at all times. Take a look at our services and learn more about our services and how we can possibly support you. Subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter (@vshn_ch and @APPUiO) and don’t miss any news. Follow @VSHN_ch Follow @APPUiO
KubeCon Europe 2019 took place in Barcelona at the Fira exhibition centre, where the Mobile World Congress also takes place. As Silver Sponsor of the Linux Foundation, VSHN was present with its own booth.
The flagship conference of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation gathered users and technology savvy people from leading open source and cloud communities from Kubernetes to Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, gRPC, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy, Jaeger, Notary, TUF, Vitess, CoreDNS, NATS, Linkerd, Helm, Harbor and etcd from 20 to 23 May 2019 in Barcelona. For four days, like-minded people met to promote the know-how and further development of cloud computing.
We started KubeCon 2019 on Monday, May 20 after first pre-events and talks with the Swiss CNC Get Together Meetup, where we welcomed 80 attendees from Switzerland in a nice tapas bar.
From Tuesday to Thursday, the conference took place with keynotes, breakout sessions and sponsor booth exhibition.
VSHN KubeCon 2019 recap video
Our impressions of the fantastic event can be reviewed in our KubeCon recap
7,700 attendees visited KubeCon and many of them stopped by the VSHN booth to say hello.
VSHN releases K8up – Open Source Kubernetes and OpenShift backup operator
At KubeCon 2019 we have released K8up – an open source Kubernetes and OpenShift Backup Operator. On https://vshn.ch/k8up/ you can find all information.
With APPUiO.ch, we have created a Red Hat OpenShift based container platform, tha we can offer as a Managed Service on any infrastructure: public, dedicated, private and on-premises.
Test APPUiO Public free for 30 days on register.appuio.ch with 2048 MiB RAM / 1100 mC with your voucher code from our KubeCon flyer. If you have misplaced your flyer please get in touch with us using the contact form below.
The Voucher Code can be redeemed until Aug. 31 2019.
For us the effort to participate at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona was certainly worthwhile. We made new contacts, learned a lot about the development of the various CNCF projects and gave away no less than 1,000 DevOps T-Shirts, which many people tried on right away.
VSHN is the leading Swiss partner for DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and 24/7 Cloud Operations. VSHN helps software developers run their applications agile and 24/7 on any infrastructure while relieving the burden on IT operations.
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We were Platinum Sponsor at the DevOpsDays Zurich 2019 and had our own booth with APPUiO. The number of visitors doubled again this year and you can definitely say that DevOpsDays has developed into one of the most important DevOps events in Zurich. Exciting talks and open spaces and a great audience in a pleasant atmosphere – and all that at affordable prices. What more could you ask for? 🙂
APPUiO at DevOpsDays
You can find some impressions of the DevOpsDays 2019 and our booth in the official APPUiO Blog Post. Have fun reading! 🙂
Impressions
Following some impressions from the DevOpsDays Zurich 2019 in the Umweltarena Spreitenbach:
Über die DevOpsDays
DevOpsDays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area. Most DevOpsDays events feature a combination of curated talks and self organized open space content. Topics often include automation, testing, security, and organizational culture. The first DevOpsDays was held in Ghent, Belgium in 2009. Since then, DevOpsDays events have multiplied, and if there isn’t one in your city, check out the information about organizing one yourself!
Our third Cloud Native Computing Meetup took place on Thursday May 9 in the Swisscom Tower in Zurich. Many thanks to Swisscom for providing the great premises and to Cloudreach for sponsoring the Apéro. The third CNC-Meetup 2019 was very well attended and after interesting speakers we had an exciting round of talks in a pleasant atmosphere and a wonderful view over Zurich.
As official member of the CNCF and first Swiss Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) VSHN supports the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with the organization of the CNC-Meetup in Zurich and sponsors the KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 in Barcelona in May.
Agenda and Talks
Chris Bingham, Cloudreach: “Once” Upon a Time in a Distributed System…”
A big thank you to the speakers for the exciting talks and the sponsors for the fantastic location and the Apéro (I just say Poulet-Curry-Pizza – hmm :). 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
This week the DevOpsDays Zurich 2019 took place and next week we are already at KubeCon / CloudNativeCon 2019 in Barcelona. Everything about VSHN and KubeCon can be found on https://vshn.ch/kubecon/. Of course we are also looking forward to meeting many of the Swiss community people in Barcelona!
Next CNC-Meetup Zurich
The next Cloud Native Computing Meetup Zurich will take place on Thursday August 29. Contact us at http://cnc-meetup.ch if you want to hold a talk or if you know someone who could sponsor location / Apéro. Thanks a lot and see you soon.
