Public clouds in China still face a number of challenges, from physical infrastructure, to billing, to technology issues, and of course government regulation. This post will discuss some of the most common challenges facing Chinese cloud providers in 2016. Pre-payment Payment is very different in China compared to the rest of the world. Clouds outside of China generally use credit card billing or bank transfers for most customers, with flexible payment terms often due at the end of the … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
CrowdStrike Hires a CIO in Their Quest for World Domination
CrowdStrike Inc., a cybersecurity startup and provider of the first true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based next-gen endpoint protection platform, has hired Colin Black as its first chief information officer (CIO). The move comes at a critical juncture as the company now sits at the forefront of advanced cyberweapons and offers state-of-the-art threat-detection analytics. Black brings to the table over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, having served in CIO positions with Kratos … [Read more...]
Soha Systems on the Death of VPN
Soha Systems, an enterprise-grade application security provider, has made its predictions concerning the VPN. In 2016, the VPNs, virtual private networks, will lose their effectiveness. This will be caused by the rapid growth of the cloud, extended use of mobile devices, and the shareconomy or sharing economy. Nowadays, the Internet is increasingly becoming the source of corporate files and specific applications for mobile employees, partners, vendors, and contractors. The VPNs, white lists, … [Read more...]
Can ChinaCache Remain the CDN Market Leader in China?
China’s CDN market exceeded 3 billion CNY ($490 million) in 2012, growing over 30 percent from the previous year, according to CCID, a research group affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. CCID predicts that number will reach 7 billion CNY ($1.1 billion) in 2015. ChinaCache has long been the CDN market leader in China and operates more than 24,000 servers in over 120 cities around the world. But competition in that region is starting to heat up as more US based … [Read more...]
A Battle is Brewing Between Azure and AWS in 2016
Amazon Web Services is still the clear leader in cloud computing as we enter 2016, but Wall Street thinks Microsoft Azure is going to be putting up a bigger fight in the coming year. Market research firm FBR Capital Markets predicts Azure will reach an annual run-rate of over $8 billion in 2016. That's roughly the same run rate AWS had in 2015, which is a big statement. "We continue to believe 2016 will be a '206 area code street battle for the cloud,' with Microsoft firmly best positioned … [Read more...]
Akamai Struggling to Maintain Media Traffic
According to Pacific Crest Securities, Akamai Technologies is renegotiating contracts with key customers (namely Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook) to account for declining media traffic. Akamai's stock is down 16% in 2015 and down 32% since touching a 15-year high in May. Part of this plummet was caused by a delay in Apple's launch of their TV streaming service, as well as concerns that some major customers are shifting traffic off their platform and onto their internal CDNs. Pacific Crest … [Read more...]
With SHA-1 Sunset Looming Facebook and CloudFlare Have a Solution
As you may have already heard, starting Jan. 1, 2016, all Internet browsers will no longer accept SHA-1 signed certificates, and millions of users in developing countries could lose access to websites because of it. This has to do with the "SHA-1 Sunset," which is the expiration of support for an older, deprecated level of encryption. A recent research paper has shown that SHA-1 certificates can be cracked with relatively low processing power available on computers in use today. As a result, … [Read more...]
Anonymous Shuts Down Turkey With Largest DDoS Attack on Record
The Internet in Turkey was largely down for an entire week, from December 14th-21st, due to a massive DDoS attack on all Turkish DNS servers (any domain ending with .tr) that reached 40Gbps. Eventually, Turkey’s National Response Center for Cyber Events was forced to cut off all international traffic to any .tr website, essentially closing their Internet borders. Turkish media claims 400,000 websites were taken down in the attack which lasted 7 days. This is one of the largest volumetric DDoS … [Read more...]
Fortscale 2.0 And The Role of Behavioral Analysis
Daniel Kusnetzky of Kusnetzky Group LLC recently held an interview with Bert Rankin, Chief Marketing Officer of Fortscale. Kusnetzky, a software engineer and product manager, was interested in Fortscale 2.0 and behavioral analysis of log information. According to Rankin, modern security threats can be characterized as slow attacks with long-term control. Today, legitimate credentials are being used more and more often to gain access whereas attacks of the past were more of a smash-and-grab … [Read more...]
Microsoft Opens Up Azure to Xbox Game Developers
In an attempt to turn the tables on Sony, who came out ahead in sales again this past year on the Playstation 4, Microsoft recently announced that they are opening up the Azure cloud to Xbox game developers. It’s speculated that this move will allow Xbox game developers to create better games with more functionality than can be provided by the local Xbox platform’s processing power alone. While Microsoft refuses to divulge any details about what we can expect from specific 3rd party games … [Read more...]
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