The archive.
This is not your usual blog: it is our archive. We have been publishing since 2004, and here are the pieces that document the journey — with their photos, their original reports in PDF and their real dates. Nothing is claimed, everything is demonstrated.
Barcelona · since 2009
The Dell decade: from Registered to Preferred Partner
December 2014: Dell certifies us as a Preferred Partner. In 2016, the Cybersecurity competency — with CSSA engineers in-house since 2010.
The private cloud matures: Hyper-V 2012 R2 and SPLA
2014: we renewed processors, moved to Hyper-V 2012 R2 and signed the Microsoft SPLA agreement that introduced pay-as-you-go licensing.
A visit to MareNostrum
October 2009: the Barcelona Supercomputing Center opens its doors — a supercomputer inside a chapel. We left with our yardstick recalibrated.
2009: the year that changed everything
Three data centres running at once, the ‘barcelona2’ host debuting Windows Server 2008 R2, MDaemon 10.10 and a week-by-week platform chronicle.
Amsterdam and the expansion · 2007–2012
elstir at CERN
Work at the Tier-0 in Geneva: the Higgs boson seminar, the data centre that processes the LHC, and web acceleration tests we brought home.
2009: Intel sent us its first SSDs to put to the test
February 2009: X25-E samples (SLC cells) arrive straight from Intel. A full study — RAID, SQLIO, native versus Hyper-V — with a published report.
Notes from the machine room (2008–2010)
The story of our growth told in iron: 8-core PowerEdge 2950 IIIs, MD1000 arrays, RAM jumps from 48 to 72GB and 15,000 rpm SAS disks.
2007: when we were already auditing email
The Q4 2007 threat report and 100% detection in independent audits by Commtouch and AV-Test. Empirical verification was already the house hallmark.
The leap to Amsterdam — and the first Dells
September 2007: our debut at the Databarn data centre in Schiphol, and eight days later we announced our first Dell PowerEdge servers.
The origins · 1998–2007
From the archive: our first racks
The first 19" rack, two servers we built ourselves and a story of gratitude: this is how it all began, from home, in 1998.
We’re sponsoring DrupalCon 2007
We sponsored the European Drupal conference in Barcelona — the technology our own website ran on for eighteen years (2004–2022).
TippingPoint implementation
Our archive’s oldest post: a deep-inspection intrusion prevention system (IPS) protecting the platform in 2004 — four years before our SonicWall alliance.
Shall we talk about your infrastructure?
An initial audit with no obligation. What we would do, in what order and why — and if we are not the right fit, we will tell you that too.