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June 25, 2013
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Want a cloud where you call the shots? Consider ownCloud

Nervous about the NSA, PRISM and your public cloud? Not sure you want to put all your data eggs in one Amazon Web Services zone basket? Then, maybe ownCloud’s just released enterprise version of its open-source cloud program, ownCloud 5.0 Enterprise Edition, is what you want need.

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June 24, 2013
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Pick and mix carefully: Public, Private, and Hybrid clouds

You know what a cloud is; you know there are three kinds of clouds, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); and Software as a Service (SaaS); so what the heck is this public, private and hybrid cloud stuff?

It’s actually pretty simple. No matter what kind of cloud you have, the servers it runs on have to live somewhere. A public cloud runs on servers at a third party’s data-center. A private one runs on your servers at your data center. And, a hybrid runs its services on on both public and private clouds.

Ta-da!

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June 21, 2013
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Gigabit Wi-Fi: 802.11ac is here: Five things you need to know

Gigabit Wi-Fi, 802.11ac, is officially here, but what does that really mean? Here’s my list of the five things you need to know before you invest in this new wireless technology.

1) 802.11ac is not going to give you a Gigabit of throughput

True, 802.11ac access points working with 802.11ac devices will give you faster data transmission feeds than 802.11n. The Wi-Fi Alliance claims that Wi-Fi Certified 802.11ac can deliver data rates up to more than double those of a typical 802.11n network. Practically speaking the Alliance claims that “this means a network can support simultaneously streaming multiple HD-quality videos to multiple devices.”

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June 20, 2013
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LeaseWeb explains why it deleted Kim Dotcom’s MegaUpload data

When Kim Dotcom went on a rant yesterday about how Netherlands-based Web-hosting company LeaseWeb had deleted petabytes of former MegaUpload “customer’s pictures, backups, personal and business property,” LeaseWeb had nothing to say.

Now they do.

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