EmprenedorXXIDigital is a combined initiative by La Caixa, Barcelona Activa, PIMEC, the Business and Occupation Department (Departament d'Empresa i Ocupació), Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic, Microsoft and Osborne Clarke to promote a program that boosts the creation of innovative companies with a great potential of growth.

Thierry Davin will participate in this program, on April 11, with a conference about online infrastructures scalability focused in companies of recent creation. The scalability of online platforms is a key topic for brand new digital companies that expect to grow, because a great initial design of infrastructures can assure seamless growth and a reduction of costs in the near future.

These workshops will gather the representatives of various new digital projects with the purpose of obtaining formation with clear practical guidance. Furthermore, these companies get tutoring, mentoring, financial access and contacts with the main agents in the industry to become successful entrepreneurs.

More information:
· Official WebSite of Barcelona Activa
· Official WebSite of CAPSiDE

The flagship product of Codership is Galera Cluster, a multi-master cluster of synchronous replication for MySQL databases using InnoDB storage engine. Codership has provable experience in supporting critical mission applications and large online platforms with high requirements on security, stability and scalability. Galera allows to build active-active MySQL clusters, providing horizontal scalability at the database layer while being transparent for the applications, ideal for e-commerce environments, social media and websites with high load on databases..

Galera Cluster is offered as OpenSource software and can be downloaded for free from Codership.

CAPSiDE and the Galera's developing team sum up years of collaboration in this kind of solutions for different clients, offering solutions of horizontal scalability transparent to the applications using MySQL. The mutli-master replication solutions for horizontal scalability (mysql scale-out) are compliant for both physical and cloud environments, where they become the adequate solution to guarantee the performance and the availability of the applications at all layers. CAPSiDE counts with wide experience on cloud environments, being able to offer active-active MySQL clusters with the Galera technology on platforms over Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2), RackSpace Cloud, Xen environments, VMWare and Microsoft Hyper-V, apart from physical environments.

With this agreement with Codership the relation gets empowered and the scalability services for CAPSiDE's clients get improved, being able to provide a technologically leading and efficient in costs solution for environments with strong requirements on availability, performance and scalability at the databases layer.

Codership develops clustering and replication solutions for Open-Source databases. Codership, with their long and provable experience in the industry, adopts breakthrough ideas of the latest DBMS and the distributed computing research to build new solutions in the area of high availability.

More information:
· Official WebSite of CoderShip
· Official WebSite of CAPSiDE

• GEC, with more than 15 years since its foundation, is the leading consulting firm in Spain at knowledge management and staff training for large companies and organizations. GEC competes on a global scale and is also present in many European conuntries, USA and China.

• Develops innovative and breakthrough e-learning solutions, commercial web portals, value-added software, customized contents, virtual communities and powerful tools for the administration and management of the corporative trainings, with a great amount of experience in big and complex projects.
• GEC has multinational major clients from the IBEX35, in industries as diverse as banking, insurance, automotive, Telco, utilities, health or retail.
• A significant part of the services provided by GEC look for the maximum training efficiency, so they are on-line. Therefore the criticity level is really high. Systems administration is a key piece that must guarantee the proper performance and availability of the commercial and e-learning online portals.
• You can visit the Official Website of GEC.

The Challenge

• Takeover from the previous managed services provider without any impact on the normal operation and availability of the services provided by GEC to its customers.
• Improve the level of service provided to GEC with solutions to increase efficiency, availability and scalability of the platform.
• Build a real partnership spirit in the relationship with GEC, both day to day and in the medium/long-term strategy.

Needs

• Proactively manage all of GEC's service elements using a fully customized monitoring system for a platform in constant evolution.
• Reduce power consumption of the platform optimizing the physical machines usage and consolidating many services on virtual machines.
• Improve the platform's management procedures, the systems administration and support workflows.
• Create and execute an action plan to reducesthe complexity and the costs of the systems.

What CAPSiDE did...

• Study and initial assessment of the situation of the platform.
• Design in conjunction with GEC an improvement plan to increase the infrastructure's efficiency that was degraded in the previous stage
• Full restructuration of the racks, including re-wiring and improvements on power efficiency.
• Virtualization of multiple machines to reduce costs.
• Rethinking of the backup's policy.
• Harmonization of operating systems and the technological baseline.
• Increased checkpoints in the monitoring system providing better supervision

Results and benefits for the client

• Te client's company is leading the Spanish market of bread and bakery, and occupies the second place in the Spanish cookies market.
• The company's distribution network has over 3.500 delivery units in Spain controlling nearly 2.800 daily routes without interruption to more than 128.000 stores.

The Challenge

• Unblock the step of moving the application to production environment by detecting and removing all performance bottlenecks.
• Problems detection (diagnosis) on the third party application that runs on an unknown platform..
• Carry on a really fast and extremely executive consulting in order to detect the problems with urgency.

Problems

• The client's company was about to put the application on production stage to manage in real-time all its delivery units routes, orders and incidents of the delivery process.
• The company internally had demonstrated that the application was consuming too many physical machine resources with only a few concurrent connections.
• Application developers were unable to improve performance.

What CAPSiDE did...

• Detailed analytics of the application structures and the used layers (Apache/Tomcat/Oracle).
• Separate testing of all layers in order to isolate the root of the problem.
• Fine tunings proposal of the used technologies, thereby eliminating the bottlenecks that were consuming the platform resources.

Results and benefits for the client

• Meteocat is the Catalonian Meteorological Service, official entity from the Catalonian government of Generalitat de Catalunya.
• Meets over 10 years of history contributing its experience in the service of the Catalan society.
• Visit the official website of Meteocat.

The Challenge

• Servers consolidation and platform monitoring.

Problems

• Meteocat has multiple PostgreSQL databases separated in various servers, what implies an over-cost on administration.
• CAPSiDE is asked to carry out a consolidation plan but the current usage of each of the databases is unknown, whether or not it is possible to group them somehow and under what conditions.
• There was no real monitoring on checks that can give the adequate feedback information for the audit and consolidation.

What CAPSiDE did...

• CAPSiDE launched a monitoring service to collect performance data, availability information and usage of databases and system resources in order to have reliable metrics.
• After this, the collected information was used for interpretation and elaboration of a diagnosis of the current state of the platform.
• Plan for a unification of all the services into a smaller number of physical machines.

Results and benefits for the client

The main goals of EuroCloud Spain are the following:

• Build an European Network organized in two levels, national and european.
• Build relations with European Institutions to recognize Cloud Computin Industry as the future of IT in Europe and to promote and encourage the indutry's development environment.
• Promote trading relations among its members throughout all Europe and internationally with their peers, such as SIIA.
• Promote technological relations among its members throughout all Europe and internationally.
• Evangelization of the market about the SaaS and Cloud Computing related concepts.
• Creation of national service platforms.
• Participation in the creation of lobby with the administrations and the rest of the market.
• Participation in the creation of a legislation. Promoting SaaS and Cloud Computing.

Check the CAPSiDE's Profile at EuroCloud Spain.

From now on, CAPSiDE entrusts GlobalSign (specialized in online security since 1996) to offer advanced services with reduced waiting time on issuing SSL Certificates and more efficient workflows on processing orders with direct and transparent personal treatment.

The SSL Services that CAPSiDE offers are now even wider and more specialized through the full gamma of GlobalSign's products. The Professional Services on Technology Consulting will provide:

• full audit of all your requirements to choose the proper SSL certificate that fits your needs
• full co-sourcing and guidance during the SSL issuing workflows
• installation in the production server

Currently the number of online transactions involving personal information and phishing attacks is getting even larger, so CAPSiDE recommends its clients to protect their online services with the adequate measures and keeping in mind the current legislation.

You can contact CAPSiDE whenever you want to get consulting services to choose the best SSL solution that fulfills your requirements.

"Chosing CAPSiDE as partner for ISP Cloud Services deployment ensures the quality levels our customers deserve. The new Cloud platform allows us to offer a full service for Internet presence with maximum guarantees on communications".

Gerardo Ortega, Product Manager of Neo-Sky

The new Cloud platform replaces the dedicated servers infrastructure where the ISP services were provided until the new platform was operational.

Supported by CAPSiDE's integral management of critical IT platforms, Neo-Sky offers the following services: Unix and Windows Shared WebHosting, dedicated e-mail in HA platform with AntiSpam and AntiVirus services, e-mail relay and Authoritative DNS Zones management.

From CAPSiDE we want to take this opportunity to thank Neo-Sky for the confidence and loayalty on our profesional team.

Continuing with the growth dynamic of the past recent years, CAPSiDE keeps reinventing itself to further improve its services within the area of integral management of IT platforms, as well as systems and critical processes of the businesses of its customers.

These days, the Internet allows for a level of collaboration between systems, people and companies that turns communication methods, the platforms that make them possible, and specially the uninterrupted provision of the services holding these systems, into critical assets to many people and organizations.

CAPSiDE is in charge of protecting the core business of its customers, which is key for their businesses to keep walking and to prosper in the best way, without impediments.

CAPSiDE is responsible for providing peace of mind, security and confidence to their customers through its team's extensive knowledge and customized professional services.

With proven experience on Co-Sourcing, the team of engineers and specialists from CAPSiDE and their human & transparent relationship with the customer, get to significantly lighten or even make the customers forget all tasks related to the management of their critical service platforms, depending on the contracted services.

During these special days we want to take this opportunity to warmly thank all our customers, partners, suppliers and employees for the confidence and loyalty.
We look forward to keep making history in the upcoming years.

It offers multi-domain control panel for centralized management of accounts and its settings, and of course personal attention of CAPSiDE's support team for any incident or doubt the customer may have.

"I have to congratulate you all. Your technical support team is one of the best I've ever seen!" - Helena Yago Hernández

NEVRiON provides the security that other traditional mailing systems don't. Furthermore, security settings are easy to define via its integrated panels. NEVRiON guarantees a high level of viruses and SPAM cleaning.

Grupo SIM Reinizia has relied for years on CAPSiDE for managing Internet Domain Names registrations, DNS Zones and hosting for their developed websites. Nowadays Grupo SIM Reinizia entrusts CAPSiDE to provide the e-mail service. NEVRiON ensures the ability to detect the authenticity of email sender origin and content privacy having direct access to the system.

In addition, NEVRiON reduces the cost of bandwith and product licenses and also saves time to customers and its IT departments.

*Official WebSites of Grupo SIM, Reinizia and NEVRiON.