Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales. ...
Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cybercriminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from Australian security ...
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Businesses are adopting cloud-based services mainly to speed up innovation and cut costs,often overlooking the security risks of this new delivery model. But security is not the only thing that is being overlooked by eager adopters of ...
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Giving customers an element of control when it comes to storing their data in the cloud is the key to gaining their trust and, in turn, their patronage. This is the belief of Trend Micro’s solutions architect, Udo Schneider, who ...
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Cloud computing is going to cause a spate of horrible problems as data owners lose control of their information, according to the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak. Wozniak, who co-founded the world's most valuable company with the late ...
Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, cloud outages, Microsoft Azure
Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to support its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy. VCider will become part of the company’s cloud computing division and support Cisco’s role in ...
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Open cloud provider Rackspace has launched Cloud Block Storage product to help OpenStack cloud users overcome storage-related challenges amid explosion of corporate data. The product will be powered by OpenStack platform and aims to ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering. The CSA launched its STAR program ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cyber criminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from security consultancy ...
Tags: cloud provider, network, security consultancy, BAE System
The Oracle OpenWorld Conference 2012 opened today at the Moscone Exhibition Centre, San Francisco. The five day affair began today with a keynote from CEO Larry Ellison who began by thanking the company’s 390,000 customers across the ...
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Marsh has introduced CloudProtect, a new insurance solution designed to protect companies against first-party losses stemming from a cloud service provider's failure. The company said that the new risk transfer solution, developed in ...
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Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool