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US judge rules Iran’s top-level domain cannot be seized
A global diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted after a Washington DC judge ruled that it’s unlawful to seize a country’s Internet domain registry. Lawyers working on behalf of nine American citizens who were inured during an Iranian-sponsored bombing in Jerusalem back in 1997 had attempted to seize the top level “.IR” domain in ...
Amazon spins out ‘lifecycle management’ tools for cloudy devs
Amazon Web Services Inc. considers itself to be quite the expert when it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, and it’s just underlined that point with the launch of a new range of tools for developers to improve their cloudy app’s build and deployment cycles. The products, based on some of Amazon’s own internal ...
Chinese hackers took out the NOAA’s weather satellites
Chinese hackers have been blamed for an attack on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather forecasting systems, which caused a multi-day data outage when the agency reacted to the breach in October. The NOAA, which is the parent of the National Weather Service, was hit by a three-day long satellite data outage from ...
AWS launches Aurora relational database in the cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc., has just taken a shot at rival Oracle Corp., with the release of a new, cloud-based relational database service that it claims will deliver better performance at a fraction of the cost of on-premises installations. Called Amazon RDS for Aurora, AWS’ new relational database offers the speed and reliability of traditional ...
Microsoft patches 19-year old “unicorn-like” bug
Microsoft Corp. has patched what it describes as a critical bug in its Windows operating system that’s been present in all versions stretching back to Windows 95, according to reports. The bug could potentially allow hackers to gain remote control of any computer running an unpatched Windows OS. The flaw was discovered by IBM’s X-Force ...
Microsoft scraps Lync, rolls out new “Skype for Business”
Microsoft Corp. has finally seen sense and realized that it’s a bit confusing having two instant messaging/VoIP programs on the go at once. Hence, it’s decided to kill off the least popular version, Microsoft Lync, and replaced it with a new program called “Skype for Business”. Lync is a popular tool with the enterprise thanks ...
Red Hat launches Atomic Host platform for Docker containers
Docker containers are disrupting the world of virtualization, but IT still requires an operating system framework on which to run and manage them. Now, Red Hat Inc., has just launched the public beta of an OS it believes is ideally suited to that task – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host. Red Hat lifted ...
Better Tor-gether? Mozillla bids to bring anonymous browsing to the masses
The Mozilla Foundation isn’t stupid. It knows that many people are worried about their online privacy and really aren’t keen on being tracked or spied upon by advertisers and spy agencies. And so to cater to this group of paranoid Web users, the maker of the popular Firefox browser has just launched a new initiative ...
Treehouse SDN project demos first “Web-scale” software-defined network
Researchers from a trio of companies have achieved a new milestone in the evolution of software-defined networking (SDN), by demonstrating a 500,000 route capacity test network that spanned three border gateway protocol (BGP) domains and two countries. The demonstration was carried out by Corsa Technology Inc, ESnet and Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand ...
Plexxi snaps up Richard Napolitano to lead its SDN push
Software-defined networking startup Plexxi Inc., is on a mission to transform the networking landscape, and to do so it’s just hired the services of one of the best executives in the business. Richard Napolitano, a former president of EMC Corp.’s unified storage division, joins Plexxi as its new Chief Executive Officer with a mission to ...
