Monthly Archives: December 2015

Web Hosting and Cloud Computing Predictions for 2016 and Beyond: Part 2

In part one of the 2016 predictions, I wrote about the integration between e-commerce and point-of-sale systems, the growth of website and app builders, and malicious attacks aimed at infecting clouds. This post deals with some of the challenges the cloud and hosting industry is facing in 2016 and beyond. Continue reading

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Audit Finds Department of Defense Cloud Use Poorly Defined and Tracked

The US Department of Defense (DOD) cannot show cost benefits, or even adequate security from cloud services, because it has no standard definition for what they are, and no central account of cloud contracts, according to an audit by the DOD inspector general. The audit was initially meant to assess… Continue reading

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Android N to use OpenJDK: Is Google vs. Oracle over?

Google has committed almost 9,000 files with the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK), signalling that OpenJDK will be used in the forthcoming Android N release, and that the applicability of copyright to application programming interfaces (APIs) may not be decided by the courts any time soon.… Continue reading

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Cisco Creating 200 Cloud Jobs in UK

Cisco has announced it will add 200 cloud jobs in the UK by 2017 and invest $2.5 million in European incubator Startupbootcamp in support of UK digital economy growth. The new employees will triple the size of the UK team of Cisco Meraki, and was announced at the (more…) Continue reading

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Free SSL Certificate Initiative ‘Let’s Encrypt’ Secures OVH as Platinum Sponsor

France-based cloud and web hosting provider OVH has become a Platinum sponsor of Let’s Encrypt, an open-source initiative aimed at eliminating the barriers to trusted SSL/TSL (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) certificates which help engender trust online. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open certificate authority run by… Continue reading

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