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Lees meerOffice 365 will finally get DNSSEC-based protection later this year Microsoft will add DNSSEC and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) to its email systems by the end of the year, the software giant has announced. That'll be a big thumb…
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Lees meerBlighty's wage bill tops £1bn as more staffers are added Google's UK tentacle booked a jump in revenues for the year ended 30 June 2019 while still managing to cut its tax bill by more than £21m.…
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Lees meerFirst day letter to staff calls for ‘maniacal focus’, OpenShift dominance and client love IBM’s new CEO Arvind Krishna has revealed the letter he sent to staff on his first day in the job, and it’s big on hybrid cloud as a new platform for IBM’s fut…
Lees meerFarewell, 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium. Arise, Ethernet Technology Consortium The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium has decided to ditch its name as it heads off in search of serious speed.…
Lees meerCould takeover actually not shaft internet domain holders? The world’s largest seller of domain names, GoDaddy, is making a bid for market domination with the purchase of hundreds of dot-word registries including .biz, .co, .nyc, and .us, from Neust…
Lees meerGov.UK to ask social networks to do their part... Comment Amanda Holden is not an epidemiologist. She holds no degree in electrical engineering or physics. Her time is spent judging the (often self-contradictory) Britain's Got Talent, or sitting ne…
Lees meerProject 'SOP2SaaS'... it just rolls off the tongue The Cabinet Office is offering a £15m contract for a consultancy to help it shift central government enterprise applications to an as software-as-a-service delivery model, part of an ambitious refre…
Lees meerUncle Sam's crackdown sparks 'force majeure event that cannot be overcome' One of Huawei’s flagship projects in Australia has been called off because, as the state government put it, “trade restrictions imposed by the US government create a force ma…
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Lees meerAd giant added memory to servers, restarted, watched things get worse ... is on top of things again now A 14-hour Google cloud platform outage that we missed in the shadow of last week's G Suite outage was caused by a failure to scale, an internal i…
Lees meerHow to combat the threat and comply with GDPR Webcast Here’s something that you may not know, something the cloud companies are not keen to shout about too loudly.…
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