Archive for July, 2011

Dedicated Cloud Hosting Firewalls

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

SoftLayer, the innovation leader in Cloud Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, and Managed hosting, today announced the introduction of High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls to its lineup of security solutions. SoftLayer customers have the option of adding this high level of protection as a new service for current or new Cloud, Dedicated, or Virtual systems that share the same VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).

“High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls provide our customers with greater peace of mind,” said Matt Chilek, Vice President of Systems Development and Technology at SoftLayer. “Unfortunately, malicious network activity can happen to anyone, so we’re dedicated to providing our customers with the best protection possible so they can focus on their business and not worry about the security of their infrastructure.”

High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls go beyond protecting servers from malicious activity. The service includes a secondary physical firewall for failover protection, and automatic fall back when the primary firewall regains service.  This helps your cloud server to be better protected.

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CNN Log-In Wall

Monday, July 18th, 2011

For those of you that don’t know, CNN is now broadcasting 24 hours a day online and on mobile apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch LIVE. The live streams are available for both CNN proper and Headline News, but good luck finding them. They are definitely not front and center.

To watch LIVE CNN videos, you need to click on the “Live” tab. Now you will have to use the new “unlock to watch” feature by entering your info. Click on that and then it asks for your cable company user ID from Verizon, Cox, Comcast, and the like. If you are like me, you will probably have to dig that out. I think it’s pretty lame that they’d do that to all of us but I guess it shows what this world is coming too. The world is all going behind a pay-wall of information.

Hopefully they will see their rankings go down and switch back to the old way but I don’t see this happening in the near future.  I wonder how this will affect CNN’s cloud servers.  Think they’ll see less traffic coming to them?  What do you think?

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Citrix Aquires Cloud Server Company Cloud.com

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Citrix Systems announced today its acquisition of Cloud.com. Cloud.com is a market leading provider of software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. It’s groundbreaking state-of-the-art CloudStack™ product line will be used by Citrix, as the company made it clear that it wants to build on this existing technology to offer large-scale clouds for big companies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Citrix Announces its Acquisition of Cloud Web Hosting Provider Cloud.com

Cloud.com has organized about 60 large-scaled cloud web hosting a lot of which are built on XenServer around the U.S.A., Asia and Indonesia, Cirtix also offers now “Cloudmaster Webinars”. The main purpose of those seminars is to educate costumers on the principals and concepts of this next-generation clouds, all this in hopes of increasing the number of cloud web hosting around the world. Those “Cloudmaster Webinars” will also include a two-day “Build-a-Cloud Workshops.”

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