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Google Releases Transparency Report, Calls on Government to Pass USA Freedom Act

A Google transparency report shows that demands for user information under US criminal investigations increased by 19 percent in the first half of 2014 to 31,698. Released on Monday, the report also indicates a more general trend of increasing requests, and calls on the US government to reform electronic surveillance by passing the USA Freedom Act. Continue reading

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IBM Mandates Some Employees Retrain to Update Cloud Skills while Taking Pay Cut

IBM seems to be alienating some employees with a mandatory retraining program for some of its Global Technology Services (GTS) staff, according to a corporate memo leaked to GigaOm. The employees will receive training to update their skills over a five and a half month period, during which their pay will be reduced by 10 percent. Continue reading

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OpenStack Event Opens at Crucial Time for Open-Source Cloud Options

From its beginning in 2010 as a joint project from NASA and Rackspace, OpenStack has grown to have a global community of nearly 20,000 people worldwide working to create a massively scalable cloud operating system. Continue reading

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OnApp Buys IaaS Platform for Web Hosts, SolusVM

Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform provider for the hosting and service provider market, OnApp has bought SolusVM, a light-weight virtual server management system used by thousands of service providers to offer Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud hosting. Continue reading

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Cybersecurity Threats Examined in the Wake of JP Morgan Chase Hack

JP Morgan Chase was among 5 US banks to experience weeks of data breaches that were finally caught and reported in August. Continue reading

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