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📅 Jul 27, 2016 - Verizon’s Yahoo Acquisition Means Access to a Billion Data Users - Verizon's Monday announcement of its plans to acquire Yahoo! for $4.83 billion may well pay off handsomely for the telecommunications giant. Yahoo boasts more than 1 billion monthly active users – 600 million of those users access their websites exclusively on mobile devices.

The acquisition is key for Verizon, who has the phones and cable set-top box covered – now, they will be able to have access to customers' internet behavior. Verizon acquired AOL for $4.4 billion. It's clear that the company is scaling up and solidifying their place as the top telecommunications company in the US.

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📅 Jul 27, 2016 - European Union Privacy Regulators Okay EU-US Data Transfer Deal - On Tuesday, European Union (EU) privacy regulators gave the proposed EU-US data transfer deal the green light. Concerns about the deal have delayed the decision and although legal challenges are expected from privacy activists, the deal will allow companies more certainty in the transfer of sensitive data.

The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, finalized the privacy shield with the US this month after it was first announced in February.

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📅 Jul 26, 2016 - ServerHub Adds a Sixth Location in New York - Recently, ServerHub announced they have added and launched a sixth global location. It's found in New York City and it's the first real east coast location for the company. They also launched a Chicago location in January, along with a Seattle and Frankfurt location shortly after.

ServerHub plans to roll out more locations this year including some in Europe, Canada and the Asia Pacific. The goal is to provide a lower latency for all major markets by spacing the locations out ...

📅 Jul 28, 2016 - Microsoft’s Iowa Data Centers to Reach Combined 3.2 Million Square Feet - Microsoft announced plans to build a 1.7 million square foot data center in the state of Iowa last week. The data center, located in the Des Moines region, follows Microsoft's two other data center projects in the state, announced in 2008 and 2014 respectively.

This brings the total square footage of Microsoft's Iowa data centers to 3.2 million square feet, a record breaking data cluster for the state. Iowa is free from hurricane and earthquake activity, though at a higher risk for tornadoes. Microsoft considered these likelihoods in their selection of a location for the data center.

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📅 Jul 29, 2016 - Half of Corporate Data, Cloud Services Beyond IT Department’s Reach - A survey of more than 3,400 global IT and IT security practitioners found that nearly half of all cloud services and corporate data stored in the cloud are considered “Shadow IT,” or beyond the reach of IT departments.

The survey also found that 34% of data considered confidential on SaaS is encrypted – additionally, members of the IT security team are involved in about 1/5 of the choices between cloud applications and platforms.

The Ponemon Institute on behalf of Gemalto compiled the survey, released on Tuesday and aptly named The 2016 Global Cloud Data Security Study.

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📅 Jul 29, 2016 - Report Finds Cloud Adoption Linked to Organizational Resilience - Organizations that are leading cloud adoption appear to outperform competitors in the category of organizational resilience to technology risks, The Economist's Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Sungard AS report in their latest research. The report, titled Cloud complexity: The need for resilience shows that nearly three-quarters (72%) of organization executives see their organizations' resilience to tech risks as a growing priority looking into the next three years.

The executives also believe that moving workloads over to the cloud is going to be a key part of a proactive strategy for achieving resilience against technological threats.

The survey looked at more than 300 executives from a ...