Monthly Archives: May 2015

EMC’s $1.2B Virtustream Acquisition Takes It Deeper Into Services

One EMC official recently said it wasn’t “your father’s EMC,”and the company has now made a big acquisition that illustrates the point. The IT giant is acquiring cloud service provider Virtustream for $1.2 billion in a bid to strengthen cloud services offerings. Virtustream will operate as a managed cloud services business arm of EMC following transaction close. Continue reading

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NSA Begins to Dismantle Program That Enabled Bulk Phone Record Collection

The National Security Agency began dismantling the program which collects bulk records of US telephone communications over the weekend, after the USA Freedom Act fell three votes short of passing through the Senate. Continue reading

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Microsoft Helps New Zealand Public Sector Meet Cloud Service Assessment

Giving government agencies more upfront information on how the Azure public cloud can fit into their organization, Microsoft has provided responses to a 105-question framework (PDF) to help New Zealand government organizations meet an official government mandate for the safe assessment of cloud services. Continue reading

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Web Host Acquitted of Charges Related to Hosting Torrent Site

A web host in Sweden has been acquitted on all charges relating to the hosting and takedown of a torrent site. After three and a half years in court, the case against the owners of torrent site “TTi,” otherwise known as “The Internationals,” and web host PatrikWeb has ended with convictions for the website operator but not for the hosting company owner. Continue reading

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eNom Informs Customers of Recent DNS Attack Targeting Four Domains

Domain registrar and hosting company eNom’s CEO Taryn Naidu emailed customers last week to inform them of a recent DNS attack where a group of hackers known for targeting large Internet infrastructure companies hijacked the DNS traffic of four domains. Continue reading

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