Monthly Archives: July 2015

IBM SoftLayer Cloud Adds Supercomputing Power with NVIDIA Tesla K80 Accelerators

IBM began offering NVIDIA Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerators on SoftLayer’s bare metal cloud servers this week, bringing supercomputing capabilities to enterprises, startups and research facilities. Continue reading

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What Chicago’s New ‘Cloud Tax’ May Mean for Service Providers

Chicago recently instituted a “cloud tax” in order to capture some of the missed revenue from the shift away from brick-and-mortar stores and toward a digital, subscription-based economy. Continue reading

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Australian Hosting Provider VentraIP Acquires IntaServe

Australian hosting provider VentralIP has acquired Queensland-based host IntaServe, its third acquisition in the past three months. VentralIP has picked up boutique hosting and domains reseller 9Web and co-location and dedicated server company GoDedicated, both Australian businesses, since the spring. Continue reading

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ICANN Closes Comment Period for Proposed WHOIS Changes

The comment period for proposed changes to ICANN’s WHOIS privacy and proxy service rules closed this week, with a huge public response that may force changes to the proposal. The comment period closed with 11,464 comments, just shy of the record 12,757 comments posted to the .xxx domain forum. Continue reading

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OpenSSL Vulnerability Allows Forged Certificate Chains to be Accepted

The OpenSSL Project team has disclosed more details about a new “high severity” flaw in OpenSSL, which can result in an “alternative chains certificate forgery” that makes it possible for invalid certificates to appear trustworthy. Continue reading

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