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Flexiant Joins Horizon 2020 ENTICE Project to Foster European Cloud Growth

Cloud management software provider Flexiant recently announced that it has joined the Horizon 2020 ENTICE project, which aims to remove barriers to the effective use of cloud services. The project is a consortium of European Universities and industry stakeholders, and will enable access to optimized VMs. Continue reading

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Microsoft Intros Hyper-V Containers in Bid for Azure Developer Supremacy

Microsoft made a couple big container moves recently. The first is the introduction of Hyper-V Containers, a new hypervisor that runs containers safely on Windows Server. The other is the Microsoft Nano Server, a stripped-down, minimal footprint Windows Server install option made for cloud and containers. Continue reading

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Lack of Skilled Security Professionals, Flawed Infrastructure and Dark Web Make Cybercrime Easier

Lowered barriers to entry are making cybercrime easier than ever. This is according to the latest Websense Security Labs threat report released on Wednesday, which finds that there are three times the number of exploit kits being purchased from 2013. Flawed infrastructure along with an easy marketplace to access these… Continue reading

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Using a Cloud Host for Business Continuity

Originally, many organizations elected to host their own websites, applications and other processes due to cost or other reasons. Now, with the expansion of cloud computing and this type of distributed environment, IT managers are beginning to rethink their workload delivery methodology. There are clear benefits to working with a cloud hosting provider – especially from a disaster recovery and resiliency perspective. Continue reading

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New Software on the Azure Marketplace Allows SAN-free Cloud Clustering

SANLess clustering software developer SIOS Technology has put its SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition software on the Azure Marketplace, providing enterprises an easy way to create a SANLess high availability cluster in Azure using Windows Server Failover Clustering. Continue reading

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