📅 - Google announced this week the acquisition of Qwiklabs, a company that provides hands-on learning labs for cloud platforms.
Qwiklabs, founded in 2012, “offers step-by-step instructions to learn a popular cloud service, test different use cases and train your teams to become cloud experts,” as Google says.
Jason Martin, Google Cloud Director said, “With Qwiklabs, we're closing the IP skills gap in the cloud. More than half a million users have collectively spent over 5 million hours learning how to successfully deploy and manage multiple cloud technologies through the Qwiklabs platform. We're focused on offering the most comprehensive, efficient, and fun way to train and onboard people across all our products on Google Cloud, including Google Cloud Platform and G Suite.”
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Anonymous sources are saying that GoDaddy has already beat out bidding rivals United Internet and Centerbridge. The report from Reuters also said that banks are “lining up debt financing to back a potential deal between the two parties, totaling around 1.5 billion euros, or 4.5 times combined EBITDA.”
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The goal of the new facility is to provide some safeguards against these attacks. The company plans to use virtual server instances from KVM to Xen when the new facility opens. They also believe the added bandwidth will help protect the company from future DDoS attacks.
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📅 - China Filter Build by Facebook to Handle Hurdles - Facebook wants to return to China, so they have built a tool to geographically censor information in the county. This comes from a report from the New York Times.
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📅 - WHIR Network Events for 2017 Have Been Announced - The free WHIR Networking Events have been announced. These events help those within the industry meet face-to-face and form partnerships for future work. A number of events will be held throughout the year in many different cities.
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