Exoscale scores with flexibility and scalability
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The flexible and scalable IT infrastructure enables customers to use server capacity as they wish, and only as long as they need it.
Why Whalebone chose Exoscale
Flexible and scalable IT infrastructure
Enables customers to use server capacity as they wish, and only as long as they need it.
Cloud init and Docker drivers
By enabling the Cloud-Init feature and Docker drivers to start machines within a minute and delete them when no longer needed, Exoscale empowers Whalebone to horizontally scale the processing of large data volumes using microservices and load balancers. This allows Whalebone to adapt its Elasticsearch cluster and log processing pipeline to changing needs. Exoscale ensures that in the event of an outage, a group of machines performing the same or similar tasks will not run on the same hardware.
Data transmission packet
In addition to its flexible and scalable hardware resources, Whalebone also impressed with its data transfer package for each individual machine, which is sufficiently large for typical servers and allows for predictive forecasting of bandwidth costs. Further advantages include the included perimeter firewall, which is fully configurable via the user interface, and the use of Exoscale's highly available S3 storage for backups and data snapshots, for which no data transfer costs are incurred when working within Exoscale.
“We have already tried a number of IaaS offerings. But Exoscale is the best platform so far, because the handling is really simple and intuitive and convinces us of the maintenance- and trouble-free operation in all operating areas. With Exoscale, we can focus on our business and don't have to worry about anything else. The possibility of only purchasing as much power as we need at a time is another plus point from a cost point of view”.
The Customer
Based in Brno, Czech Republic, Whalebone, s.r.o. is a cybersecurity company that protects the networks of internet service providers and companies from malware, phishing attacks and access to infected websites. DNS resolution is a critical part of any infrastructure. Whalebone ensures that your customers' DNS resolution works at all times.
The Challenge
To do this, Whalebone processes hundreds of millions of DNS requests in real time every day. Filtering DNS requests not only allows you to detect malicious traffic, but also to avoid it in a simple and transparent way. To do this, Whalebone needs a fast and reliable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) that is able to support a modern cloud infrastructure based on microservices.
The Solution
However, most IaaS vendors typically only deliver complex solutions that do not allow flexible adaptation to resource requirements. Whalebone found the right cloud hosting platform for its business model in Exoscale from cloud and IoT service provider A1 Digital International GmbH.
