Monthly Archives: January 2015

Lenovo Launches Partner Program for Cloud and Managed Service Providers

Lenovo has launched a new partner program on Tuesday for cloud and managed service providers. The program is the result of the transition of the IBM System x server business to Lenovo. Continue reading

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South African .ZA Domains to Cost 30 Percent More Starting in March: Report

The price of registering and renewing .za domains will jump on by approximately 30 percent on Mar. 1, 2015. ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which administers the .co.za, .net.za, .org.za and .web.za and other TLDs has informed domain registrars of the change, which was approved in November 2014 and originally slated for Feb. 16, MyBroadband reports. Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Internal Nebula Cloud Uses New Cloud Platform System

Microsoft is using its new Cloud Platform System (or “CPS”) as the engine of its own internal private Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud known as Nebula, according to a blog post late last week by Microsoft’s Russ Wilson. Continue reading

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10 Tips to Defend Against DDoS Attacks

With the availability of cost-effective and user-friendly DDoS mitigation services, hosted service providers have no excuse for downtime caused by a DDoS attacks, according to a new WHIR whitepaper by Incapsula. This whitepaper looks at how DDoS attacks have evolved over the past two years, and it brings to light… Continue reading

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Weekend Issue with Twitter Link Shorteners Connected to .CO Domain: Report

Over the weekend an issue with the .CO domain extension caused problems for Twitter’s URL shorteners t.co and vine.co. Continue reading

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