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Verizon Shutting Down Public Cloud, Gives Users One Month to Move Data
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Verizon Communications, which several years ago had huge public cloud ambitions, is shutting down its public cloud service, which competes head to head with giants like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Read More...
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Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure
Monday, February 15, 2016
It's done and dusted. Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services, from streaming video to managing its employee and customer data. Read More...
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Google Cloud Platform Debuts Lambda-Like ‘Cloud Functions' that Respond to Events
Friday, February 12, 2016
This week, the Google Cloud Platform debuted Google Cloud Functions, a way to create lightweight, single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events without having to manage a separate server or a runtime environment. Read More...
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US Congress Passes Ban on Internet Access Tax
Friday, February 12, 2016
A decision by the US Senate on Thursday to pass a permanent ban on Internet access tax as part of a customs enforcement bill, was hailed by telecom trade association USTelecom as a victory for US consumers and the digital economy. ...
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What's Behind Rackspace's Private OpenStack Cloud Partnership with Red Hat
Friday, February 12, 2016
OpenStack is hard. It's hard to take the conglomeration of about 20 open source projects, each at its own stage of maturity, collectively referred to as OpenStack, and turn it into a functioning cloud. ...
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Backdoor Access to US Data Would do Nothing to Stop Availability of Encryption: Report
Friday, February 12, 2016
Proposals from lawmakers to force US companies to provide government agencies with backdoors to encrypted data would put them at a competitive disadvantage, without reducing the global availability of encryption, according to a report released...
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IBM Cloud Powers Toronto Raptor's War Room Heading into NBA Trade Deadline
Friday, February 12, 2016
With the Feb. 18 NBA trade deadline quickly approaching, the Toronto Raptors opened its new "war room" to a handful of journalists who were able to the sleek, high-tech boardroom where multi-million dollar decisions are made. Read More...
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Eight Key Features for IT Managers in Latest Docker Release
Thursday, February 11, 2016
As Docker the company continues to push its eponymous platform for building, deploying, and running applications in Linux containers into more enterprise data centers, more and more improvements are focused on the traditional enterprise IT musts,...
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IT Pros Feel More Pressure as Board-Level Cybersecurity Awareness Grows: Report
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Information technology security professionals are feeling pressure to purchase new technologies but do not have the staff necessary to manage them, according to Trustwave's third annual Security Pressures Report....
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IBM SoftLayer Blocks Services in Iran as US Lifts Sanctions
Thursday, February 11, 2016
IBM's SoftLayer services are not available in Iran as the cloud giant has blocked all IPs coming from the country....