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IBM Opens SoftLayer Data Center in Toronto, Canada

IBM opened a SoftLayer data center in Toronto, Canada. This is the first SoftLayer facility in the country and the fifth of the planned fifteen data centers this year as part of a broad $1.2 billion investment program to expand the SoftLayer cloud capacity. Total capacity in Toronto is more than 15,000 physical servers. Continue reading

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Only 1% of Cloud Providers Comply with Proposed European Data Protection Rules

A proposed European Union regulation known as The EU General Data Protection Regulation, which is expected to be passed this year, could change how organizations treat the privacy of personal data. However, very few cloud service providers are able to currently meet these regulations which are likely to come into effect in 2015. Continue reading

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Media Temple Rolls Out Parallels Plesk 12 to VPS Hosting Accounts

Media Temple announced on Monday that it has added Parallels Plesk 12 panel to its VPS control panel offering. It is encouraging all VPS customers currently on Plesk 10 and Plesk 11.5 to upgrade for free to Plesk 12 by the end of the year. Continue reading

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Large Volume DDoS Attacks See Exceptional Growth in First Half of 2014: Arbor Networks

Large volume DDoS attacks increased by almost 350 percent from 2013 to the first half of 2014, according to Arbor Networks’ DDoS Attack Trends Q2 2014 report. While average attack size and NTP use decreased compared to Q1, attack duration increased, and Arbor emphasizes that volume was the main theme in DDoS attacks for the first half of the year. Continue reading

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Half of Proceeds from Bitcoins.com Auction to Help People Impacted by Mt. Gox Bankruptcy

Bitcoins.com is hoping to get at least $750,000 in an auction for the domain later this month. Bitcoins.com is owned by Mark Karpeles, the 29-year-old CEO of the now defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Continue reading

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