Category: Cloud

All our technical and/or business articles on the cloud: discover Iguana Solutions’ expertise on the public, private or hybrid cloud as well as feedback from our customers.

Platform Engineering: agility and DevOps

The emergence of platforms What do Deezer, EasyBourse, Spartoo, Photoweb and Molotov have in common, apart from being Iguana Solutions customers? All these services are popular online services that we use every day. But behind the scenes, these services rely on a platform to run. A platform brings together all the pieces of the puzzle […]

Observability at the core of Iguana Solutions

Iguana Solutions is an IT infrastructure hosting and outsourcing expert that needs to know in real time the state of all the infrastructures under its control. The continuous evolution of the various software layers, the arrival of new development practices such as containerization, new agile development tools and DevOps practices are generating more and more […]

Renewal of ISO 27001 certification

The first milestone of the year 2023 has been reached: we have just renewed our ISO 27001 certification for 3 more years! This renewal rewards our efforts to continuously improve the security of the platforms we manage. As great news does not come alone, we took the opportunity to include all the employees of our […]

Cybersecurity: Prepare your business for cyber risks

Cybersecurity in business: Best practices for strengthening your cyber resilience Since the Covid crisis, the number of cyber threats has increased by 400% in France. At the same time, half of the companies have seen a significant increase in cyberattacks (figures from the National Assembly). The ANSSI warns of the persistence of a “high level” […]

01 February 2023

Service Delivery Manager: a key role at Iguana Solutions

A Service Delivery Manager, an indispensable link in the IT service chain. In service companies, services are delivered in two ways: by project management (Build) and by maintenance in operational conditions (Run). At the crossroads of these two paths, we find the Service Delivery Manager (SDM) – a profile that is becoming increasingly common among […]

01 December 2022

New offer, DevOps as a service: experts at your disposal

Iguana Solutions puts its experts at your disposal to reinforce your technical teams How to find the right technical profiles at the right time, for one-off or long-term projects? How do you take advantage of engineers who are immediately operational and integrate them into your teams? As a service provider specialized in hybrid cloud-based infrastructures, […]

25 November 2022

Web Infrastructure Traffic Peaks: How to Manage Them?

How to Effectively Manage Your Traffic Peak? Every company has strong times, anticipated or unforeseen, which cause increases in traffic over very short periods of time, and produce significant stress on the infrastructure. However, it is essential that it can withstand shock and remain functional to avoid service interruptions, and serious consequences. It is also […]

07 January 2022

CDN: the benefits of a content delivery network

CDN: a performance and security lever for your website You have certainly already seen the acronym CDN (for Content Delivery Network ). Built of many servers that play the role of relays, this network ensures rapid access to the content of a website or application, especially when users are located at great distance from origin […]

28 October 2021

Autoscaling: How to implement your strategy?

How can you put in place an autoscaling strategy adapted to your business needs? Cloud computing is becoming a standard for business. Your company probably already uses web-hosted services. In a cloud ecosystem, the key to performance (and cost rationalization) is to manage resources: at all times, you must ensure that the number of machines […]

02 September 2021

Simplifying the journey to multicloud with interconnection

As enterprises seek to respond to the challenges associated with the post-Covid reality and the opportunities presented by the digital economy, the move to multicloud architectures is gathering pace. But as firms make the transition, they’re finding that multicloud is not the panacea for all ills. Indeed, it presents specific challenges of its own. Interconnection […]

01 September 2021

Kubernetes: restrict access to your K8S cluster

Mastering Kubernetes is not always easy especially when it comes to security. Through this article, from theory to practice, you will discover how to effectively manage access to your Kubernetes clusters. Read the full article on medium. This article was written by Jonathan Marsaud and Cédric Laudrel , System Engineer Experts at Iguana Solutions. […]

Case study: Kayrros grows scalable and reliable IT infrastructure

Kayrros leverages Platform Equinix and Iguana Solutions to optimize network, bare metal and storage services. The world’s leading carbon tracking company is transforming its IT infrastructure for greater scalability, reliability and security, while reducing data networking costs. Challenge Throughout the past few years, Kayrros’ global data analytics platform had been predominantly distributed across multiple service […]

3 Strategies to Migrate to the Public Cloud

Not all business applications benefit from running on a cloud-based infrastructure, however, in those cases where they do, having an effective migration strategy to the public cloud is crucial. In this sense, it is essential to determine which of the available migration strategies offers “the path of least resistance.” At Iguana Solutions we are aware […]

19 February 2021

Top 3 Terraform DOs and DON’Ts

When working with such an advanced provisioning software as Terraform, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. What are the best practices to follow? What mistakes should I avoid? That is why Iguana Solutions’ expert team compiled the Top 3 Terraform Dos and Don’ts to help organizations to embrace this amazing open-source Infrastructure As Code tool created […]

12 December 2020

4 Ways Terraform Can Improve DevOps Adoption

There are many tools that can help implement DevOps culture in an organization. One of them, much appreciated at Iguana Solutions is Terraform. Few IaC tools are as flexible, powerful, and useful as Terraform. It is for this reason that we have dedicated this article to explain the benefits that this tool can provide to […]

05 November 2020

What is Kubernetes and how to use it?

The leading-platform for containers orchestration: from a basic to an advanced perspective This article assumes that you have some experience with bare-metal, virtualization terminology and microservices. We will start from zero knowledge about the container-world, describing the beginning of the era to understand what drove the need for containers, the first solutions to manage container-centric […]

Case study Embleema: migration & automation on AWS

How Iguana Solutions successfully helped Embleema to deploy and securely manage the platform hosting their services Embleema’s Challenges As a Company handling health-related confidential and critical information and operating in multiple countries around the Globe, Embleema needs to make sure that their platform would be: Completely secured and in total compliance with local regulations Reliable […]

19 February 2020

High Availability – REX

Discover how Molotov, which has been broadcasting television on all French digital devices since 2016, spent three years designing an infrastructure that permanently encodes 170 channels in 30 formats in collaboration with Iguana Solutions USA. Find more details on their IT experience in an article from Le Mag IT dealing with the complexity of creating […]

06 December 2019

AWS Re-Invent 2019

AWS re: Invent, the annual event of Amazon Web Services (AWS), is being held for its eighth edition, in Las Vegas, USA, from December 2 to 6, 2019 and brings together some 65,000 attendees (30% more than the previous edition). It’s a must-have event in the cloud. The main event was the keynote address by […]

OpenNebula Terraform Provider Speed up Infrastructure deployment on IG1 Cloud

At Iguana solutions, DevOps culture is part of any Technical Team member. When we need to implement a cloud infrastructure, we want to use “Infra as Code” tools to ease its deployment and to be part of our CI/CD pipelines. In our case, we decided to use one of the most commonly used tools: Terraform. […]

Iguana Solutions USA on French TV BFM “L’Hebdo des PME”

Iguana Solutions has participated to a French TV show “L’Hebdo des PME” on BFM Business about market analysis, core business and our next goal. Review full interview on channel web site (french): https://bfmbusiness.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/video/l-hebdo-des-pme-14-entretien-avec-stephane-cohen-iguane-solutions-1901-1133399.html

Iguana Solutions USA on BFM Business

Iguana Solutions USA has participated to BFM Business analysis about market analysis, core business, our next goal and why we are different ? Review full interview on channel web site (french) : https://bit.ly/2utTKXl

This month in “l’informaticien” June 2016

The newspaper “L’informaticien” June 2016 write a special article about « Deezer Infrastructure. Behind music, redundancy ». Find an extract here : “The outsourcing choice is logical at the time, Iguana Solutions works on DailyMotion and thus knows the problems of streaming and encoding. Very quickly, a partnership is tied with Deezer” We worked together for nine […]

Iguana Solutions in IT for Business

The IT Business newspaper in April 2016 write a special folder “Deezer outsources its high availability infrastructure to Iguana Solutions.” See an excerpt of it: “Iguana Solutions is the origin of many recommendations, including on the part servers, and works with us from the beginning on optimizing our infrastructure They also participate in the reflection, […]

Open Compute Project include Google initiative

The Open Compute Project is a project that aims to share and collaborate on technologies used in the area of deployment and use of data centers in order to improve the functioning infrastructure, standardize innovations. This project is for 5 years at the initiative of Facebook. The Open Compute Project, aims to improve the technologies […]