Study finds major weaknesses in single sign-on systems
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The single sign-on protocols that allow users to sign in to a range of websites with their Google or Facebook accounts suffer from security flaws that could allow scammers to log in as somebody else, security researchers have reported. The researchers, from Indiana University Bloomington and Microsoft Research, say they have found a number of serious flaws in OpenID and the single-sign on system used by Facebook, as well...
Gartner: SaaS market to grow 17.9 percent to $14.5 billion
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Global spending on SaaS (software as a service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to $14.5 billion, according to figures released Tuesday by analyst firm Gartner.
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DotCloud adds vertical scaling to its PaaS offering
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DotCloud has become the latest PaaS (platform-as-a-service) provider to add features typically associated with IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offerings, this time by enabling vertical scaling, the company said Tuesday. Typically, PaaS providers allow horizontal scaling, where customers deploy code on multiple servers and add more servers as they need them, with traffic distributed across the servers.
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HP’s server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck
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Hewlett-Packard says it will address the I/O bottleneck created by internal and external storage in its next generation of ProLiant servers, boosting performance by up to 50 percent for popular applications such as OLTP (online transaction processing) and streaming video.
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Office Live Small Business users fret over Office 365 transition
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Many companies that rely on OLSB (Office Live Small Business) for their email and website hosting are complaining that a required transition to Office 365 or to a third-party hosting provider is too complicated for them to carry out and that Microsoft could be doing more to help them out as OLSB’s closure date fast approaches.
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Akamai to launch IPv6 service in April
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Akamai will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base in April — a long-awaited move that will be a major boon to the adoption rate of the next-generation Internet Protocol.
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LTE phone shipments to increase tenfold in 2012, analysts say
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LTE phone shipments will grow tenfold to reach 67 million units in 2012, making it a breakout year for the 4G technology, Strategy Analytics said on Friday.
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