Monthly Archives: September 2015

Blue Box and IBM Integration Takes Private-Cloud-as-a-Service to a Global Scale

Todd Moore, IBM’s VP of Open Technology, told the WHIR in an interview at OpenStack Summit Silicon Valley last week that the quick rollout of Blue Box across IBM data centers was made possible because IBM had been taking a similar approach with its technologies. Continue reading

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Hostway Adds Open-Xchange Email and Collaboration Tools

Hostway has launched email and collaboration tools for individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises from Open-Xchange, the companies announced Wednesday. Continue reading

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Web Host ServInt Mitigates Overnight DDoS Attack

ServInt appears to have mitigated a significant Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack spanning from Wednesday evening to Thursday morning. Continue reading

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Average DDoS Attack Size Increased 52 Percent in Q2 2015: Report

The average DDoS attack size increased 52 percent to 5.53 Gbps from the first to the second quarter of 2015, according to Verisign, despite a rash of smaller attacks intended to extort Bitcoin ransoms, and often targeting the financial industry. Continue reading

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Microsoft Launches New Azure VMs for Compute, Storage Intensive Applications

In order to support applications that are both compute and storage intensive in the public cloud, Microsoft launched a new variant of its G-series VMs, called the GS-series on Wednesday. Continue reading

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