Monthly Archives: May 2014

Amazon Wins Patent that Hints at Plans to Accept Bitcoin for AWS

Amazon has been awarded a patent this week that could signal the cloud computing giant’s plans to accept bitcoin for AWS. This is despite earlier indications from company officials that Amazon had no immediate plans to accept digital currencies, including bitcoin. Continue reading

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Learn How to Analyze DDoS Attacks to Protect Your Hosting Business with Corero

Next Wednesday the WHIR is hosting a webinar with DDoS defense specialist Corero Network Security. The webinar will be presented by Corero’s newly appointed VP product and CTO David Larson. Continue reading

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Google Releases Online Form to Simplify EU "Right to be Forgotten" Request

Google is now making it easy to be forgotten on the Internet. It has taken new steps to comply with the May 13 ruling by the European Court of Justice that gives people the right to request old information be removed from search engines. The “right to be forgotten” caseā€¦ Continue reading

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HP Leads Worldwide Server Market Revenue, IDC Says

Server unit shipments are up 2.1 percent year-over-year in Q1 214 to 2.1 million units, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report released on Wednesday. This increase is despite growing consolidation that has offset investments in hyperscale data center capacity. Continue reading

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Chris Armer of GigeNET Passed Away, and His Family Needs Your Help

Chris Armer, husband, father of three, and Senior VP of Operations at web hosting company GigeNET, passed away suddenly from a heart attack on Sunday. Continue reading

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