(The Hosting News) – HP and 3PAR Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase 3PAR through a cash tender offer of $33 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of $2.35 billion. The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
Combining [...]
(The Hosting News) – AT&T today announced that it has completed the sale of its domestic Japanese outsourcing services operations to Internet Initiative Japan Inc. The companies originally announced the transaction in June 2010. As part of the sale, AT&T will transfer approximately 1,600 domestic Japanese business customers and approximately 245 employees who support those [...]
(The Hosting News) – As the recession looms, internet marketers are finding it increasingly challenging to convert traffic into sales. Industry wide EPC (earnings per click) and CTR (click thru rates) have been steadily declining in part to the summer slowdown and the rapid change of technology. The internet is undergoing a transformational change as [...]
There's no substitute for testing redundancy measures, both from an IT and general utilities perspective. It's easy for many providers to claim iron-clad redundancy, but without adequate testing, it's impossible to ensure that the purported measures are effective. It's much less stressful and less detrimental to discover and solve a problem during routine testing than at a critical juncture -- on Black ...more ----------------------------------------------------------
A new wave of mass SQL injection attacks seen in mid-August to hit over half a million websites, including parts of Apple's site serves as a weighty reminder of the growing prevalence of mass injections and of SQL injections in general as a favorite means of hackers to tap into organizations' infrastructure and data resources.
In light of these attacks, security researchers believe ...more ----------------------------------------------------------
Most Apple press conferences start off with some statistics and state-of-the-company type stuff. Wednesday was no different, and Jobs noted that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS-based devices per day. He made sure to specify that that's 230,000 new devices being activated each day. That figure includes iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt recently let fly ...more ----------------------------------------------------------
When Microsoft launched its Bing decision engine in 2009, it may have held out hope for an alliance with AOL. In fact, there were even rumors that Microsoft would buy out the struggling Internet service provider. But AOL has shunned Bing in favor of Microsoft's online nemesis, Google.
On Thursday, Google announced a five-year renewal and expansion with AOL. Google will continue ...more ----------------------------------------------------------
The countdown to the saturation of the IPv4 address supply is now down to a matter of months: and along with the vast address space of the next-generation IPv6 architecture comes more built-in network security as well as some new potential security threats.
IPv6 has been in the works for over a decade now, but with the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space expected anywhere from ...more ----------------------------------------------------------
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