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Bracket Computing Raises $85M for Cloud Infrastructure Service
Friday, October 24, 2014
Bracket Computing announced on Wednesday that it has launched its enterprise cloud infrastructure service, Bracket Computing Cell. The company, which was founded in Sunnyvale, Calif. in 2011, has raised more than $85 million to develop its service,...
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Canadian Web Hosting Targets Enterprise Public Cloud Market with OpenStack Offering
Friday, October 24, 2014
Canadian Web Hosting announced the pre-production release on Tuesday of a new Enterprise Public Cloud service running on OpenStack Icehouse called AURO. The company is aiming to pit AURO against the big public cloud providers for Canadian enterprise...
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ProfitBricks Reduces Cloud Infrastructure Prices by 30 Percent
Thursday, October 23, 2014
ProfitBricks has slashed its infrastructure prices by 30 percent, improving the price and performance proposition of its "unbound cloud" model, the company announced Wednesday. The price drop is double that of the industry leader AWS by...
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NIST Publishes US Government Cloud Computing Roadmap
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its final US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap this week. It identifies 10 requirements expected to encourage cloud adoption by government agencies while also generally...
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HostGator Says Reports of a Server Breach by CaLLSTaCK are a Hoax
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Reports that 19 Hong Kong servers run by HostGator were compromised by a "hacktivist" group known as CaLLSTaCK are unsubstantiated according to HostGator.
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Snead: NSA Revelations Have Chilling Effect on Cloud Growth in US
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Data center customers are beginning to avoid the US and place their infrastructure elsewhere because of data sovereignty concerns caused by revelations about NSA surveillance, according to David Snead, founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition...
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Ubuntu 14.10 Adds New Features Around Containerized Applications, Big Data
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Ubuntu has released its latest major release, 14.10 which is also known by its codename "Utopic Unicorn", which features some more "bleeding-edge" technologies not present in the Ubuntu Long-Term Support release unveiled six months ago....
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IBM and Microsoft Partner on Enterprise-Focused Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Microsoft and IBM announced a partnership that will make key IBM middleware including WebSphere Liberty, MQ, and DB2 available on Microsoft Azure, and, in turn, IBM Cloud will support Windows Server and SQL Server....
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Reddit and EFF Among Groups to Oppose New York Bitcoin Regulations
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
New York's proposed Bitcoin regulation would violate the First Amendment, damage privacy and stifle innovation, according to Reddit, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Internet Archive. The groups published a joint comment at the...
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Hungary Internet Tax Could Cost ISPs More Than 60 Cents Per GB of Traffic
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Hungary is planning to charge a new tax on Internet data transfers, which would require Internet service providers to pay a tax of 60 cents per gigabyte of data traffic....