Monthly Archives: March 2014

Fortinet Updates DDoS Attack Mitigation Solution for New Threats

Fortinet has expanded its family of Distributed Denial of Service products with four new appliances to help detect and mitigate large threats designed to wield large numbers of infected systems to flood servers with requests and crowd out legitimate traffic. Continue reading

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TextDrive ‘Lifetime’ Customer Accounts to End This Week

Web hosting service TextDrive was founded in 2004 with a novel idea: providing lifetime web hosting for an up-front fee of $199. Unfortunately for many of the early TextDrive customers who hoped to never pay for hosting again, however, TextDrive is shutting down March 14, 2014. Continue reading

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VMware Launches DaaS Based on vCloud Hybrid Service

VMware announced on Monday the launch of a new cloud-based desktop service running on its VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, called VMware Horizon DaaS. Continue reading

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Healthcare.gov Extends Terremark Hosting Contract to Smooth Transition to HP Infrastructure

The Obama administration has extended its contract with Verizon Communication’s Terremark unit, the hosting provider for Healthcare.gov, to ensure a smooth transition of the infrastructure over to HP. Continue reading

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Coming ARM-based Servers Set to Transform Hosting, Cloud Computing

The physical infrastructure behind web applications is about to undergo a major change at the chip-level, although it might not happen overnight. The x86 microprocessor architectures have become a common instruction set platform for many modern systems, often provided by large corporations such as Intel and AMD. The dominance of x86, however, is facing major challenges from ARM, an alternative instruction set architecture that can potentially reduce costs, heat and power use, and be optimized for specific applications. Continue reading

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