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Web Host Attenda Reveals Cloud Security Strategy, Names Director of Security

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:59:42 +0000

February 3, 2012 — UK web hosting provider Attenda announced on Friday the details of its cloud security strategy, which is to play a key role in the delivery of innovative and market leading cloud services to clients. To support this new strategy, the company has appointed a director of security

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Host Virtual Expands Cloud Service in TelecityGroup London Data Center

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:55:29 +0000

February 2, 2012 — loud hosting provider Host Virtual announced on Wednesday it is expanding its Cloud Service in London, UK. Located in the London Docklands, the expansion into Telecity Sovereign House provides a premier, Tier 3 carrier class hotel as the basis for the Host Virtual service.

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Canadian Web Host 4GoodHosting Launches New Mobile Website Builder Application

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:34:34 +0000

February 2, 2012 — Vancouver-based web hosting provider 4GoodHosting announced on Wednesday that it has officially launched its new website builder application designed for creating mobile websites.

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Microsoft Gives Free Windows Azure Access to TechStars Startups

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:25:21 +0000

February 2, 2012 — Microsoft announced on Monday that it is working with startup accelerator TechStars to provide startups with up to $60,000 of Windows Azure compute and storage at no cost. TechStars accelerators in Boulder, Colorado, Boston, New York, Seattle and Texas will have access to Windows Azure over a 24-month period.

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Facebook IPO Filing Details Data Center Spending

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:36:55 +0000

February 2, 2012 — With 845 million users, and more than half of users logging in everyday, Facebook has provided some insight into how much it costs to run its infrastructure through the release of its IPO filing on Wednesday. Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in its infrastructure, comprised of its own data centers in Oregon, North Carolina and Sweden, and leased facilities in California and Virginia, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.

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Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:14:58 +0000

February 1, 2012 — A really interesting Monday post by Joe Brockmeier on ReadWriteWeb points out that open source giant Red Hat, while it declined to participate in the community around open source cloud computing platform OpenStack, citing problems with the governance model and, later, reservations about the activity of participants, has been quietly contributing to the project.

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Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community

CloudPassage Launches Network Security Solution for Multi-Cloud Environments

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:30:30 +0000

February 1, 2012 — Cloud server security provider CloudPassage announced on Wednesday that it has launched its new automated security solution that provides network access control for servers in public clouds.

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CyrusOne Expands Interconnect Business, Names VP and GM of Interconnection

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:00:59 +0000

January 31, 2012 — Colocation provider CyrusOne announced on Tuesday it is entering the interconnect business on a broad scale, and to support this initiative the company has appointed Josh Snowhorn as vice president and general manager of interconnection. The expansion will include the use of Internet exchanges at all its data center locations, significantly increasing the number of providers available to CyrusOne customers and allowing for Internet peering

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Carpathia and Electronic Frontier Foundation Aim to Help Megaupload Users Retrieve Legal Data

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:27:26 +0000

January 31, 2012 — As users scramble to recover their data from Megaupload servers before it is deleted by federal authorities, Carpathia Hosting and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have created a website to help lawful users retrieve legitimate files from Megaupload.

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SSL Certificate Authority Global Sign Appoints Microsoft Vet as CTO

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:55:25 +0000

January 30, 2012 — Certificate authority and Internet security firm GlobalSign announced this week that it had appointed Ryan Hurst, a 10 year veteran of Microsoft’s security business, as its new chief technology officer, charging him with developing the company’s overall technology vision, product architecture, standards and compliance.

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SSL Certificate Authority Global Sign Appoints Microsoft Vet as CTO