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DDos Protection Services Firm Prolexic Secures $8 Million in Funding
February 9, 2012 — Distributed denial of service protection services firm Prolexic Technologies announced on Thursday it has closed an $8 million Series B investment led by private equity firm Camden Partners. DDoS attacks have been increasing at expo…
Google to Launch Cloud Storage Service in Coming Weeks: Reports
February 9, 2012 — Google is set to launch its cloud storage service in the next few weeks or months, according to several reports on Thursday. While Google currently offers several storage products such as Picasa and Docs, this will be the its first …
Content Delivery Network Operator Akamai Names EVP and CFO
February 9, 2012 — Content delivery network operator Akamai Technologies announced on Wednesday it has named James Benson its executive vice president and chief financial officer, succeeding J. Donald Sherman, starting March 1. The news follows the re…
Google Plans to Disable Online Revocation Checks in Future Chrome Versions
February 9, 2012 — Google will disable online revocation checks in future versions of Chrome, and will reuse its existing update mechanism to maintain a list of revoked SSL certificates instead, according to a blog post on Sunday by Google researcher …
Virustream Further Integrates Cloud Capabilities, Completes Enomaly Acquisition
February 9, 2012 — Cloud hosting solutions provider Virtustream announced on Thursday it has completed its previously announced acquisition of cloud exchange software developer Enomaly. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. First announced in…
How CenterBeam Improves Customer Service Through Survey Data
February 9, 2012 — CenterBeam executive vice president, North American Solution Center and chief customer officer Anthony Hardt says in a phone interview with the WHIR that the company aims to continuously improve through its feedback from customers, …
Cloud Host VPS.NET Plans New European, Asian and US Cloud Locations
February 9, 2012 — Cloud services provider VPS.NET announced on Thursday its plans to expand its offerings to reach a total of 13 separate global locations by April. According to the press release, the new locations include Singpore, Frankfurt, Paris,…
Brazillian Government is Reportedly Hitting Service Providers with Domain Takedown Notices
February 9, 2012 — – The Ministry of Tourism of Brazil has sent a letter to domain marketplace Sedo, demanding it takes down an .EU domain whose name suggests it involves Brazilian-related porn content, according to a report by TechDirt. This appears …
Cloud and CDN Provider OnApp Names Chief Technology Officer
February 9, 2012 — Cloud software and CDN provider OnApp announced on Thursday that it has named Carsten Sjoerup chief technology officer. In this role, Carsten will lead OnApp’s development teams in the UK, Malaysia and Ukraine. OnApp cloud software …
Web Host Verio Adds Zimbra to Hosted Email Solutions for its Resellers
February 8, 2012 — Web hosting provider Verio announced on Wednesday that open source email and collaboration platform VMware Zimbra for OEM resellers and via its partners. Zimbra was bought by VMware in 2010 from Yahoo! and has two versions: an open-…
Akamai Bolsters Content Delivery Network, Acquiring Web Optimization Firm Blaze Software
February 8, 2012 — Content delivery network provider Akamai Technologies announced on Wednesday it has acquired performance optimization technology provider Blaze Software in a cash transaction. This marks the second acquisition for leading CDN operat…
Hosting.com Rounds Out Monitoring Suite with Application Performance Monitoring
February 8, 2012 — Web hosting provider Hosting.com announced on Tuesday that it has launched application performance monitoring to give its customers as a way to manage applications in the infrastructure stack. Availability of applications is expecte…
Cloud Services Firm CSC Names President and CEO, Non-Executive Chairman
February 8, 2012 — IT services provider CSC announced on Tuesday that it has named Mike Lawrie president and chief executive officer, as well as current board director Rodney F. Chase as non-executive chairman of the board of directors. Lawrie will jo…
Security Firm eleven Reports Phishing Email Increase in December and January
February 8, 2012 — Email security provider eleven announced on Wednesday that it has seen explosive growth of phishing email in December and January. According to the report, phishing email’s share surged by 194 percent in December, and by a further 2…
Security Researcher Calls on Browser Developers to Support SSL-Validator
February 8, 2012 — Security researcher Moxie Marlinspike is calling on the support of browser developers to participate in his new open-source project that is designed to authenticate a secure sockets layer certificate’s credentials, according to a re…
