Monthly Archives: November 2014

Bigcommerce Ecommerce Platform Raises $50 Million to Expand Reach

Ecommerce platform Bigcommerce announced on Wednesday that it has raised $50 million in Series D funding, led by SoftBank Corp. The funding round will help the company develop products, grow sales and marketing, and expand into new markets. Continue reading

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Growing a Business – Should You Build or Should You Buy?

One of the most common questions I get from business owners is how they should grow their businesses. Of course, the answer is, it depends. It depends on your business model, your competitive space, your internal resources, etc. Continue reading

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VPLS Deploys Virtual Secure Access Gateway to Provide Customers Direct Cloud Connectivity

Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider VPLS has deployed a solution that gives its customers direct Virtual Private Network connections through which they can access to their individual accounts and servers securely and reliably. Array Networks announced on Tuesday that VPLS has deployed its vxAG virtual secure access gateway. Continue reading

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Microsoft Azure Outage Knocks Out Websites and Xbox Live

Microsoft began reporting a cloud services outage on it’s status page around 5 pm Pacific time on Tuesday. “Our investigation of the alert is complete and we have determined the service is healthy,” a cloud services multiple regions advisory statement said. “A service incident did not occur for Cloud Services… Continue reading

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UK ISPs Deliver Advertised Broadband Speeds to Only 10 Percent of Customers: Report

One-quarter of all ISP customers in the UK say they would have chosen a different deal if they had been provided better information on their broadband speed, according to a report from consumer association Which?. Continue reading

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