Monthly Archives: December 2015

DIY Website Builder Moonfruit Takes Customer Sites Offline After DDoS Attack

DIY website building platform Moonfruit took customer websites offline on Monday to make infrastructure changes, four days after the company had been hit by a DDoS attack. Continue reading

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Canadian Web Hosting Acquires eSecureData

Canadian Web Hosting announced on Monday it has acquired Canadian data center and hosting provider eSecureData. Financial terms were not disclosed. Continue reading

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Cloudyn Raises $11M to Expand Private Cloud Monitoring Chops

For every dollar large enterprises spend on public cloud services, they will spend $11 on private cloud, Cloudyn CEO Sharon Wagner, said. Continue reading

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How Microsoft Plans to Win in Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

While Microsoft is behind Amazon in public cloud, it has no need to play catch-up inside the enterprise data center. That combined with the second-largest public cloud business puts it in a good position to dominate in hybrid cloud, which is touted overwhelmingly as the cloud strategy of choice among enterprises. Continue reading

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VMware Drops Plans to Launch Joint Cloud Venture with EMC

VMware said on Monday that it will no longer be part of a cloud services joint venture called Virtustream with EMC which was expected to launch in Q1 2016. Continue reading

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