Monthly Archives: March 2014

IBM SoftLayer Extends its Cloud to Hong Kong

The first of IBM’s new data centers will be open for online orders this week in Hong Kong. The SoftLayer data center is the first of 15 planned data centers that Big Blue will open in 2014 as part of its $1.2 billion commitment towards data center expansion to support its cloud. Read More Continue reading

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AWS Brings Virtual Desktop Solution Amazon WorkSpaces to General Availability

Months after introducing its cloud-based desktop computing environment, Amazon WorkSpaces, in the fall at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services has announced that WorkSpaces has gone from being a Limited Preview to being fully available to all AWS customers. Continue reading

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TMCH Blocks Over 450K Domain Registration Attempts that Infringe on Trademarked Terms

The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) has deterred approximately 475,000 attempted domain name registrations which include trademarked terms, the organization announced this week. TMCH claims this indicates that its trademark protection mechanisms are working, but there is some skepticism about the effectiveness of the program. Continue reading

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Insider Data Theft Among Top Cybersecurity Threats for US Federal Agencies: Study

Insiders at US federal agencies pose nearly as much threat to agency information security as hackers, according to a survey released on Wednesday by IT software management company SolarWinds. Continue reading

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Brazil Moves Forward on Net Neutrality Laws, Drops Local Data Hosting Requirement

Brazil has become closer to having net neutrality laws when the Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted in favor of a law for Internet rights that does not include a provision that would require Brazilians’ data be hosted within the country. Continue reading

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