The outage, caused when some Amazon servers used by Netflix crashed, lasted more than 20 hours.
Super Micro Computer, which makes servers used for high performance applications, this afternoon posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended December 31.
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Thus if you want very, very fast connections to the stock market, you need to be as close to the servers used by the market as possible.
As a result he said AMD would focus its new ARM products at servers used to power apps, host websites and carry out data analysis for business.
However, last year the FBI, working in conjunction with the Estonian police, seized the servers used by the cybercriminals and broke up the crime ring behind the operations.
However, the servers used by the criminals were kept online so as to not disrupt the web activities of those infected (although they no longer served up ads).
The security flaw, found in the DNS servers used by large companies and Internet service providers (ISPs), could allow cybercriminals to perform a new, undetectable form of "phishing, " security analysts warn.
Servers used to stream video, offer cloud-based gaming, carry out facial recognition and other more complicated tasks would be best off using x86-based chips, he added, at least for the next few years.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of this event CERN has recreated the first ever website, complete with its original URL. The preservation doesn't stop at copying over some old files, either, with CERN also looking to preserve the first servers used, restoring as much as possible to its original state.
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Once someone had provided her with private information that led to details about servers that he used, she and her colleagues had his name, even, she claimed, details about his girlfriend.
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However, Microsoft acknowledged that group calls using more than two computers did pass through its servers which were used to "aggregate the media streams", and that text-based messages were also stored on its computers for up to 30 days in order to make sure they were synchronised across users' various devices.
The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
To do this, the group maintains a number of blocklists, a database of servers known to be being used for malicious purposes.
Gavrielov sees Xilinx in some ways as the anti-Intel: where Intel has a huge franchise focused primarily on one thing, microprocessors for PCs and servers, Xilinx makes parts used in a wide variety of products.
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The tool currently only obscures SSL and TLS as the SOCKS protocol used by proxy servers, but in the future, he hopes it will be able to impersonate any sort of traffic, including HTTP or instant messages.
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And it says BT failed to license a system used to let computer servers prioritise data - an IBM invention now owned by the search firm.
"Cloud computing" (the practice of storing regularly used computer data on multiple servers that can be accessed through the Internet).
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But if power supplies were standard parts that could be used interchangeably among devices (servers, switches, storage arrays, etc.) and swapped out at will, there would be no need to wait.
As dot-coms collapsed, Google took over cheap office space, barely used Aeron chairs, dozens of servers and platoons of out-of-work programmers.
Sealand, now run by Michael Bates, is used as a base for internet servers and other business ventures.
After obtaining, editing and filtering audio sound tracks and uploading them to servers utilized by the IMAGiNE Group, Lovelady used software to synchronize the audio file with an illegally obtained video file.
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That means the mainframes, which remain popular in financial services and still have advantages in security and resilience, can integrate with x86 machines used as outward-facing Web servers and IBM's more expensive and efficient Power7 Unix servers.
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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And there is the whole concept of the network service center, by which data can be forward-staged and transmitted via the network as opposed to people picking up their hard drives, or, in this case, what used to be thumb drives or servers, and moving them.
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Elements of the technology, sometimes called silicon photonics, are already beginning to be used for high-speed connections between servers and in scientific systems known as supercomputers.
But the novel worm spotted recently by Spamhaus routes junk via the mail servers of the net service firm that infected machines used to get online in the first place.
These include their Syncro products designed for an SMB clustered DAS application but also used to replace boot disks in blade servers with a centralized Syncro MX boot appliance that can support 24-48 servers.
Google, by its configuration of hundreds of thousands of commodity servers into a massive, parallel, virtual supercomputer used for search, has worked out, by intent or accident, the enterprise computer platform of the future.
Messenger, a vulnerability can be used to steal data from corporate or government servers, says WabiSabiLabi's Chief Executive Herman Zampariolo.
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