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CenturyLink Wants to Acquire Rackspace: Bloomberg Report

CenturyLink is in talks to acquire cloud provider Rackspace, according to a report by Bloomberg on Monday. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the report said that odds of the deal going through are “less than 50 percent unless Rackspace is willing to take payment in stock or enter a joint venture.” Continue reading

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Hackers Use Enterprise Linux Systems in Botnet DDoS Attacks: Prolexic Research

Akamai and its Prolexic Security Engineering & Research Team (PLXsert) issued a threat advisory Wednesday of a high-risk threat of IptabLes and IptabLex infections on Linux systems. Enterprise Linux systems are being used to launch botnet DDoS attacks against the entertainment industry and possibly other targets. Continue reading

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Ecommerce Platform WebLinc Grabs $6 Million in Series A Funding

Ecommerce platform provider WebLinc has raised $6 million in Series A financing from Safeguard Scientifics to help fund the development of new features for its platform. The funding will also be used to onboard third-party integration partners and expand its sales and marketing teams. Continue reading

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Handling Network Complexity with Overlay Networks

November 4, 2013 — Servers and networking have been fundamental components of the internet era. An enormous leap forward happened with the development of running virtualized versions of servers on physical hardware, allowing for quick provisioning, better resource use and many other benefits. Keep on reading: Handling Network Complexity with Overlay Networks Continue reading

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Linux Kernel 3.10 Sees Most Developer Contributions Ever

September 16, 2013 — The Linux Foundation has released a new report Monday during the first day of LinuxCon that looks at the development of Linux kernel 3.10, with an emphasis on releases 3.3 to 3.10. Keep on reading: Linux Kernel 3.10 Sees Most Developer Contributions Ever Continue reading

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