Monthly Archives: January 2016

Facebook Data Center Coming to Ireland

A village in Ireland will be the location of the second Facebook data center in Europe, the company officially confirmed on Sunday. Continue reading

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New AWS Tool Offers Free SSL Certificates

Amazon Web Services is offering free SSL certificates with its new tool, AWS Certificate Manager, which also cuts down on the time and effort it takes to manage and provision them. Continue reading

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Q&A: GoDaddy’s New Chief Product Officer, Steven Aldrich

In this Q&A interview, we ask Aldrich about how the CPO position came about, why techy people sometimes don’t get products right, what product opportunities lie ahead for hosting providers, and if hosting is as exciting as insurance. Continue reading

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Major Cloud Service Providers Stay Online Throughout Winter Storm Jonas

Cities on the north-eastern US coast are recovering from a massive weekend snowfall brought by Winter Storm Jonas, however many of the cloud infrastructure in the region powering websites and services was largely unaffected. The service status pages for major cloud services (moreā€¦) Continue reading

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Advocacy Group Calls on US Government to Improve FedRAMP for Cloud Service Providers

Industry advocacy group FedRAMP Fast Forward is calling on the federal government to improve the process for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to obtain FedRAMP Authority to Operate (ATO). Continue reading

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