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2nd Watch's New Service Offers $2,000-per-Server Migrations to Amazon's Public Cloud
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Managed services provider 2nd Watch, which specializes in public cloud workload management, has launched a new cloud workload management service called Cloud Factory for companies transitioning to Amazon Web Services from a traditional, on-premise...
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Chinese Hackers Target Human Rights Groups with Persistent Cyberattacks: Report
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Human rights groups are not only vulnerable to cyber attacks, but are constantly targeted, particularly by Chinese hackers. All ten human rights groups studied by the Citizen's Lab had been breached, according to a new report released Tuesday by...
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Rackspace Beats Wall Street Estimates with Strong Third Quarter Earnings
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
On the strength of its cloud management and web hosting services, Rackspace quarterly earnings beat analysts' estimates with an 18.3 percent increase, the company announced at the end of trading Monday. Rackspace also announced that its board has...
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Minds + Machines Loses Auctions on Five gTLD Names, Netting $8.4 Million
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Minds + Machines Group (or "MMX"), a domain registrar that has bid on many generic Top-Level Domains, has been outbid by competitors in auctions for five gTLD names for which it had applied to run. While it lost the right to be the registry for...
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President Obama Proposes ‘Common Sense' Rules for Net Neutrality
Monday, November 10, 2014
US President Barack Obama is putting pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to implement "the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality," releasing a statement and video on Monday that urges the FCC to ensure that telecos or...
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Over 400 Tor Sites Offering Illegal Goods and Services Shut Down by Law Enforcement
Monday, November 10, 2014
Officials shut down hundreds of illegal websites and arrested 17 people on Friday, according to the Wall Street Journal. Criminal activity including illegal goods and services find an easy home on the anonymous "Tor" (The Onion Router) network....
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Open-Xchange Updates OX Documents to Improve Mobile Experience, Microsoft Office Interoperability
Monday, November 10, 2014
Open-Xchange introduced updates to its open source browser-based productivity suite OX Documents last week. New features include full interoperability with Microsoft Office change tracking and enhanced usability on tablets and smartphones....
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Research Firm 451 Sets Cloud Pricing Benchmark
Monday, November 10, 2014
Establishing a cloud pricing benchmark is hard work, given the different configurations, pricing and services across different cloud offerings. 451 Research has attempted to index cloud pricing, creating a benchmark for the hourly price for a typical...
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GoDaddy Launches Online Store Ecommerce Product for SMBs
Monday, November 10, 2014
GoDaddy announced on Thursday the new GoDaddy Online Store ecommerce product for small businesses to sell products online....
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Balderton Capital Invests in Cloud-Based Development Environment Provider Cloud9
Friday, November 7, 2014
Cloud9, the creator of a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment, has raised a new funding round from European venture capitalist investor Balderton Capital. Read More...