Happy New Year from Civo! We’re kicking off 2025 with some exciting updates, including our upcoming Machine Learning webinar on January 15th. Hosted by Josh Mesout (Chief Innovation Officer) and Simon Hansford (Chief Commercial Officer), this session will cover practical strategies for deploying AI models at scale and maximizing GPU utilization.

Along with the webinar, we’ve got fresh content and exciting announcements, including the launch of our Mumbai region and details about Navigate North America 2025.

Civo Webinar: Unlocking the power of GPUs and LLMs

Civo Launches Mumbai Region

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Mumbai, India cloud region! To celebrate this milestone, we hosted a launch party and attended KubeCon India 2024 as a Platinum sponsor, where we shared our excitement about the new region and our vision for the future of cloud in India.

This new Mumbai region will provide scalable, secure, and compliant cloud services tailored to meet the growing needs of India’s digital economy. We’re excited to help businesses in India innovate and scale with cloud infrastructure built for the region.

If you missed out on any of our India region announcements, here is a recap of everything that has happened:

What’s New From Civo?

This blog unpacks the differences between data residency, sovereignty, and local legal mandates, helping you navigate compliance challenges in a global cloud environment.

Check out the blog, “What’s in a name? Data residency vs Data Sovereignty vs Local Legal Mandates” here.

Open-Source vs Proprietary LLMs

Dive into the debate over Open-Source vs Proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs) with Mostafa Ibrahim and discover the benefits of each approach for your AI projects.

Read the full blog, “Open Source vs. Proprietary LLMs” here.

Stable Diffusion for AI Image Generation

Explore how Stable Diffusion is revolutionizing AI image generation with Mostafa Ibrahim and discover how to leverage it for your own projects.

Learn from the blog, “Everything you need to know about stable diffusion” here.

CI/CD Pipeline Using Harbor and Jenkins

Set up a CI/CD pipeline using Harbor and Jenkins on Civo with Rizaldi Martaputra. This tutorial will guide you in enabling smoother application deployments and streamlining the development process.

Read the tutorial, “Setting up a CI/CD pipeline for dockerized applications using Harbor and Jenkins on Kubernetes” here.

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