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Microsoft Azure Outage Knocks Out Websites and Xbox Live

Microsoft began reporting a cloud services outage on it’s status page around 5 pm Pacific time on Tuesday. “Our investigation of the alert is complete and we have determined the service is healthy,” a cloud services multiple regions advisory statement said. “A service incident did not occur for Cloud Services… Continue reading

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New Certificate Authority Wants to Simplify HTTPS Deployment

A new certificate authority that will launch in 2015 is aiming to transition the web from HTTP to HTTPS. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust and researchers at the University of Michigan have teamed up to launch the initiative, called Let’s Encrypt. Continue reading

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DreamHost Overhauls VPS Offerings in Response to Changing Market

DreamHost has responded to the shifting Virtual Private Server market by overhauling its VPS offerings with updated hardware and software, the company announced Thursday. The platform refresh includes solid state drives and Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS as the new standard distribution with all new DreamHost VPSs. Continue reading

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Employees Bypass IT as Department Too Slow to Approve Cloud Apps: Report

As cloud adoption grows, keeping track of all the cloud applications in use at a business becomes a challenge. According to a report released on Monday by GigaOM and CipherCloud, though the cloud market is expected to grow 126.5 percent this year, having visibility into cloud applications continues to be difficult. Continue reading

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Mobile Devices to Account for More than Half of Online Transactions in Five Years: Report

More than two billion users of mobile phones or tablets will make some kind of mobile commerce transaction before the end of 2017, according to a new report by Juniper Research. That is up from 1.6 billion users this year. Continue reading

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