📅 - Edward Snowden caused”tremendous damage” to national security, the U.S. House intelligence committee unanimously decided. In a meeting on Thursday, the committee approved a report of the damage Snowden's leaks of top-secret intelligence caused.
There has lately been a push by Snowden's supporters, urging President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden, but the members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence had this to say, “The public narrative popularized by Snowden and his allies is rife with falsehoods, exaggerations, and crucial omissions.”
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📅 - Russian Hackers Dump More Athletes’ Health Data - Another hacked batch of Olympians' private health files have been released. Russian hackers under the banner name “Fancy Bear” are taking responsibility. This is the group's second data release of private health files this week.
The group published alleged drug-testing files of four athletes on Tuesday, including the files of Serena Williams and Simone Biles.
The most recent batch of leaked files, confirmed Thursday by the World Anti-Doping Agency, contains leaked data on more American athletes, as well as Olympians from Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Russia.
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📅 - Nexsan Has Announced the Launch of E-Series P High-Density Storage Solutions - Nexsan, a unified storage provider, recently announced the launch of their new E-Series P high Density Storage Solutions. The company provides a suite of service perfect for storing business data and this new product just adds to the suite. It's designed for heavier workloads and provides an increase in data read performance of 134% and an increase in data write performance of 116% compared to other solutions.
Nexsan is headquartered in Campbell, California and it's known as a leader in storage, data management and back-up solutions.
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📅 - Public Cloud Services Expected to top $200 Billion by Year-End - Public cloud services are estimated to end up around $208.6 billion by the end of 2016. This estimate would put the services up 17.2% compared to last year, which ended up at $178 billion. The causes for the growth are the benefits for innovation and the cost savings public cloud services provide for companies.
Along with the growth of the public cloud services, IaaS is expected to be up 42.8% and SaaS is expected to be up 21.7%. It's also projected that private cloud and hosted private cloud service will continue to increase through 2017. All of this is according to Gartner.
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📅 - ServerPoint Launches New Affiliate Program - ServerPoint.com, an established and respected provider offering high quality web hosting services since 1998, has announced the launch of a new affiliate program. The affiliate program is designed to give individuals and businesses an opportunity to earn extra income and to allow them to partner with one of the top rated providers in web hosting.
“We are proud to announce the launch of our affiliate program. Becoming an affiliate of ServerPoint is easy and absolutely free. Our affiliates just simply link to serverpoint.com from their personal website, Facebook page, Twitter posts or other mediums, and ServerPoint will pay out commissions when your referrals make a purchase. It's that easy.”
📅 - Microsoft Data Center to Block Blackouts - The energy being used by the Microsoft data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming is quickly approaching the 35MW (megawatt) mark. To help ensure the site can continue to grow, Microsoft and its local energy provider, Black Hills Energy, have come up with a creative agreement.
The agreement, signed earlier this year, stipulates that Black Hills Energy will buy enough energy that the data center needs at any given time, and Microsoft will utilize it's natural-gas-powered backup systems during times of peak load on the grid. The end result, a mechanism to prevent blackouts which may be caused by energy shortages.
The data center is expected to continue to grow to the point of using 200MW, which would
📅 - Public Sector Cloud Spending to Increase - According to MeriTalk's latest report, 82 percent of public sector agencies will increase cloud computing spending in 2017. The report, released Monday, indicates public sector cloud adopters nearly doubling their cloud use from 35 percent to 60 percent.
Although, the biggest challenge facing public cloud adoption is security. More that half of the respondents said that their agency or institutions have security or privacy concerns. This drives most government cloud adopters to go private. 64 percent of Federal agencies use private cloud, and state and local agencies use 54 percent.