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October 21, 2014

Published by Chris L on October 21, 2014

C.R.E.A.M.: The Internet, Telecoms, and Greed

In 1993, hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan released the song C.R.E.A.M., an acronym for Cash Rules Everything Around Me. How does the Wu-Tang Clan and their song about greed relate to the Internet? Clearly, you’ve never met the major telecom […]

October 20, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on October 20, 2014

How Application-Aware Data Protection Could Help Your Business

Think you know all there is to know about data protection? Or maybe the question is better posed: When is the last time you thought about how your data is protected? With businesses growing just as fast as new technologies […]

October 15, 2014

Published by Q.C. Crea on October 15, 2014

Can Businesses Innovate When On The Cloud?

We’ve talked about cloud vs. dedicated servers until we were blue in the face. Luckily for us, we ditched that face and got a new face to talk about this subject with until it becomes blue (at which point the cycle […]

October 14, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on October 14, 2014

What To Do If You Were Affected By The “Poodle” Bug

What to do if you’ve been affected by Google’s “Poodle” Bug affected SSL Vulnerability: A serious SSLv3 security vulnerability was recently discovered that can allow third parties to decrypt information being sent between a web browser and a web server. […]

October 14, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on October 14, 2014

What Is a CDN And Why Do You Need It?

The web is a very different place today from what it was. A report released just a few months ago in July 2014 reveals that the average page size on the Internet has breached 1.6 MB. If you consider that […]

October 9, 2014

Published by Q.C. Crea on October 9, 2014

Data Center Security Breaches Are Human’s Fault, Claims IBM

Never thought I’d be saying this, but the time has probably come. Yes, you know what I’m talking about—the time when it’s indistinguishable to determine whether or not something is human or robot. You’ve seen it in a bunch of […]

October 8, 2014

Published by Q.C. Crea on October 8, 2014

The US Military Is Outsourcing Data Centers to the United States?

In the most bizarrely American thing you could imagine, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) will start “outsourcing” its data centers to commercial providers here in the states. Okay, admittedly “outsourcing” might be the wrong word, but it’s no […]

October 7, 2014

Published by Chris L on October 7, 2014

China’s Cyber War

We talk a lot about cyberattacks, hacking threats and security breaches, and it’s all gathered under the banner of “cyber warfare”. But what is happening in China—Hong Kong, specifically– is literal cyber war. Waging a War Online For those unfamiliar, […]

October 6, 2014

Published by Q.C. Crea on October 6, 2014

A Cloud Reboot Causes Panic At Netflix

Raise your hand if you’ve ever watched an entire season of a favorite television series in one sitting, realized it’s the morning of the next day, called in sick, and then watched the second season all because, well, you could? […]

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