France-headquartered global cloud service provider OVH is hoping to leverage VMware’s recently announced HCX software defined networking technology to exploit what it sees as a huge market among Australian SMBs wanting to move their in-house IT to the cloud.
Infrastructure as a service provider OVH today opened its Asia Pacific headquarters in Melbourne.
Attackers abused insecure Network Time Protocol servers to launch what appears to be one of the largest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks ever, this time against the infrastructure of CloudFlare, a company that operates a global content delivery network.
Cyber-criminals are compromising websites at hosting companies at an ever furious rate in order to exploit them to host dangerous content and send spam via compromised accounts, according to messaging security firm Cloudmark in its threat report today.
Results of an IPv6 census have revealed the proportion of zones — part of the domain name hierarchy that can be delegated to others — under .com, .net and .org supporting IPv6 increased by 1900 per cent in the last 12 months.