A case study about how the Ministry of Education moved to an open source infrastructure

Last year we were contacted by the Ministry of Education. The ministry was planning to update their private cloud infrastructure. In this case, one of there reasons the Ministry is there, is to ensure that all educational institutions benefit from technology and digitalization. They do this by supporting the educational institutions in using IT to […]

OpenInfra Summit 2023 in Vancouver

What is it? It’s time for the OpenInfra Summit again. The OpenInfra Summit is an annual event organized by the OpenInfra Foundation. According to the foundation themselves ‘’The OpenInfra Summit is a global event for open source IT infrastructure professionals to collaborate on software development, share best practices about designing and running infrastructure in production, […]

What did our lead Linux Kubernetes container engineer think of 2022?

Now that 2022 is over, we at Fairbanks and 42on like to reminisce a little on the past year. To do this from multiple perspectives we have interviewed some of our colleagues for you.  In the last two blogs you can read about the 2022 experiences of Eric Kessels (Fairbanks) and Wout van Heeswijk (42on). […]

Interview with the Fairbanks and 42on HR executive

At Fairbanks and 42on we just love open source! And 2022 was another beautiful year for us, filled with open source awesomeness and challenges. As a company, we are always looking forward, but for this blog, let’s look back for a minute. To gain another inside perspective, we have interviewed our HR executive for this […]

An Edge Cloud case study

Edge cloud case study

Since 2019, Fairbanks has had a broad and deep experience with Edge Computing, whether it is based on virtual machines, containers, or a combination of the two. Recently, we helped one of our clients with a setup of an Edge Computing architecture and with the implementation of the infrastructure. The case was a little different […]

What our CTO thinks of 2022

We love open source and 2022 was a beautiful year, filled with technical awesomeness and challenges. We are always looking forward, but this time, at the end of the year, let’s look back for a minute.  To look back, we decided to interview some of our lead engineers and colleagues to see what they found […]

Our interview with Allesandro Pilotti, founder and CEO of Cloudbase Solutions

Recently we visited the annual OpenInfra summit in Berlin. We held interviews with some interesting people. Earlier we posted blogs about our interviews of attendees and OpenInfra Foundation members. This time we have wrote a blog about our interview with Allesandro Pilotti, the founder and CEO of Cloudbase Solutions. You can also view the interview […]

Our interview with Dawid Deja

OVHcloud is a cloud provider offering Dedicated Servers, VMware based Hosted Private Cloud, and OpenStack-based Public Cloud to over 1.4 million customers worldwide. OVHcloud has been an innovator in data center design and management for nearly two decades. At the OpenInfra summit of 2022 in Berlin, we have interviewed Dawid Deja. He is the Team […]

Interview with Stig Telfer, the CTO of StackHPC

StackHPC develops OpenStack capabilities for research computing use cases. Through extensive experience, they understand HPC and cloud. StackHPC focuses on the needs and the shortcomings of each paradigm. They work with clients to develop solutions that address the gaps in cloud for research computing use cases. In addition, StackHPC works actively with the OpenStack community […]