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2nd Watch’s New Service Offers $2,000-per-Server Migrations to Amazon’s Public Cloud

Managed services provider 2nd Watch, which specializes in public cloud workload management, has launched a new cloud workload management service called Cloud Factory for companies transitioning to Amazon Web Services from a traditional, on-premise data center environment. Continue reading

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Rackspace Beats Wall Street Estimates with Strong Third Quarter Earnings

On the strength of its cloud management and web hosting services, Rackspace quarterly earnings beat analysts’ estimates with an 18.3 percent increase, the company announced at the end of trading Monday. Rackspace also announced that its board has authorized a $500 million buyback over the next two years. Continue reading

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Minds + Machines Loses Auctions on Five gTLD Names, Netting $8.4 Million

Minds + Machines Group (or “MMX”), a domain registrar that has bid on many generic Top-Level Domains, has been outbid by competitors in auctions for five gTLD names for which it had applied to run. While it lost the right to be the registry for these domains, this did net the company approximately $8.4 million. Continue reading

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President Obama Proposes ‘Common Sense’ Rules for Net Neutrality

US President Barack Obama is putting pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to implement “the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality,” releasing a statement and video on Monday that urges the FCC to ensure that telecos or ISPs can’t act as gatekeepers. Continue reading

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Over 400 Tor Sites Offering Illegal Goods and Services Shut Down by Law Enforcement

Officials shut down hundreds of illegal websites and arrested 17 people on Friday, according to the Wall Street Journal. Criminal activity including illegal goods and services find an easy home on the anonymous “Tor” (The Onion Router) network. This is the largest law enforcement act to date against criminal sites… Continue reading

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