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For the management of their cloud environment, IKOULA decided to choose the open-source way by combining the power of CloudStack with the simplicity of the open-source hypervisor XCP-ng. Тhe turnkey combination was carefully selected following the long-term company strategy to guarantee a constant product evolution, reliability, and simplicity for their customers. As a result, IKOULA is now among the most innovative cloud and managed services providers in Europe, with an extensive portfolio of cloud solutions. Moreover, a large number of customers use their CloudStack-orchestrated infrastructure to deploy memory-oriented and storage-oriented VMs or Kubernetes clusters."><header><h1 class="title_f1Hy" itemprop="headline">IKOULA Simplifies the Management of Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure with CloudStack and XCP-ng</h1><div class="container_mt6G margin-vert--md"><time datetime="2021-12-07T00:00:00.000Z" itemprop="datePublished">December 7, 2021</time></div></header><div id="__blog-post-container" class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><a href="/blog/case-study-ikoula-xcpng-cloudstack"><img loading="lazy" src="/img/imported/00e58d80-9b92-4974-9b5e-d06150ea0868" width="100%" alt="ikoula-xcpng-case-study-1200-628.png" class="img_ev3q"></a><p>The French specialist in web hosting, dedicated servers, and cloud computing IKOULA announced a joint case study with the leading open-source cloud management software CloudStack. For the management of their cloud environment, IKOULA decided to choose the open-source way by combining the power of CloudStack with the simplicity of the open-source hypervisor XCP-ng. Тhe turnkey combination was carefully selected following the long-term company strategy to guarantee a constant product evolution, reliability, and simplicity for their customers. As a result, IKOULA is now among the most innovative cloud and managed services providers in Europe, with an extensive portfolio of cloud solutions. Moreover, a large number of customers use their CloudStack-orchestrated infrastructure to deploy memory-oriented and storage-oriented VMs or Kubernetes clusters.</p><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30757703/CloudStack_Case-Study_IKOULA_2021-11_EN.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1638874264049&api=v2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="button button--primary button--lg"><b>DOWNLOAD THE CASE STUDY (ENGLISH)</b></a><br><br><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30757703/CloudStack_Case-Study_IKOULA_2021-11_FR.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1638874279575&api=v2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="button button--primary button--lg"><b>DOWNLOAD THE CASE STUDY (FRENCH)</b></a><p>The cloud and hosting market is one of the most competitive in the tech industry. Companies need to constantly innovate, be creative, offer exceptional service quality and support while keeping a competitive price. Choosing an open-source technology stack is a strategic decision taken by IKOULA. They eliminate all vendor lock-ins and ensure the company has full control over their infrastructure by being open-source. Other significant benefits are the easy management of extensive infrastructure, guaranteed reliability, and seamless scalability.</p><p>“It is essential for us as a hosting company to know exactly what is running on our servers. This is a decisive advantage in terms of security. We decided to go with open-source solutions, as they deliver the reliability and flexibility we need. When it comes to debugging issues, we can quickly look in the code and fix it or ask the community for help on the error. CloudStack and XCP-ng have an active and growing community and constantly evolving products, which is a huge benefit”, <b>said Joaquim Dos Santos, R&D Director at Ikoula</b>.</p><p>CloudStack and XCP-ng also give a financial advantage to IKOULA, which is extremely important in their market segment. According to their team, operating XCP-ng and CloudStack results in greatly reduced costs than other solutions. They have also greatly reduced their reliance on 3rd parties to help maintain their environment.</p><p>At this stage, IKOULA manages a large CloudStack environment with 100+ hosts in 8 different zones and 6600+ customers using it. They can make live updates and upgrades of the system without any service interruptions for the end-users. Among the most valuable CloudStack features for them are the multi-tenancy of the solution, its scalability and the power to easily manage hundreds of hosts and thousands of VMs.</p><br><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30757703/CloudStack_Case-Study_IKOULA_2021-11_EN.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1638874264049&api=v2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="button button--primary button--lg"><b>DOWNLOAD THE CASE STUDY (ENGLISH)</b></a><br><br><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/30757703/CloudStack_Case-Study_IKOULA_2021-11_FR.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1638874279575&api=v2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="button button--primary button--lg"><b>DOWNLOAD THE CASE STUDY (FRENCH)</b></a><br><br><b>About IKOULA</b><p>Pioneer of the French Cloud since 1998, IKOULA has its own Datacenters in France, as well as two subsidiaries, in Spain and in the Netherlands. Because people are part of its DNA, IKOULA maintains a close relationship with its customers and provides them with teams of experts available 24/7, to advise and support them in their activities. IKOULA's teams are also multilingual, in order to respond to the internationalization issues of all of its customers, located in more than 60 countries on 4 continents. Since September 2021, IKOULA has joined the SEWAN Group.</p><br><b>About Apache CloudStack</b><p>Apache CloudStack is an open-source cloud management solution designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. 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