Competitors of Apple should take note of Verizon’s marketing campaign against the iPhone, a hard-hitting commercial that uses the iPhone as a punching bag. This marketing effort does something that no other campaign against Apple does to date: it hits back.
I saw this for the first time last night while I was watching a special on the JFK assassination and thought “This is brilliant!” It sure takes the “cool” out of the iPhone in very blunt terms.
PS: Until the “Droid” is released, the Blackberry is still superior to any iPhone. It has been proven.
Matt sent over a link that describes a recent problem Level3 ran into in a London Datacenter. The problem arose when one of their cooling units failed on a hot day. Below is a graphic display of what happened during the course of the day:
Level3 Datacenter Temperatures
When the temperatures reached a certain level, servers began automatically going critical and shutting down to prevent hardware failure. As many of you might have guessed, 1U-2U servers really are not built to sustain operation in a remotely warm room, and running without proper air conditioning can cause some pretty serious problems!
This is a perfect example of why WebHostingBuzz uses the N+1 redundant cooling method to significantly reduce the chances of something like this ever happening to our clients.
As we discussed a few weeks ago, IBM was in talks to purchase Sun, but those discusssions fell apart last week. In an apparent slap to the face of IBM, Oracle has moved in and purchased Sun today. The total cost of acquisition was $7.4 billion.
MySQL and Oracle’s database system may continue to co-exist for a while. There are definite advantages to Oracle taking over the development, as their database expertise is second to none in the industry. To me, however, the Oracle platform is geared more toward enterprise uses and not small-scale projects that MySQL fits so well with. Perhaps MySQL development will continue as the “small to medium solution” and Oracle’s enterprise solution will stay where it is.
At any rate, this is a very interesting development for the web industry. What are your thoughts?
We’re now getting information that the stolen data includes CVV2 data. According to the PCI DSS standards, the storage of CVV2 data is strictly forbidden. This should create some interesting discussions on why this information was allowed to be stored in the first place.
WebHostingTalk is now publicly acknowledging that they have received further communication from the hacker and that credit card information has been stolen. They are claiming the data is only from December 2007 or earlier.
At this point in a security investigation, it is our advice that you go ahead and cancel the credit card you are currently using with them and get fraud monitoring on all your accounts immediately.
We will post more information as we can. Thank you!
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Hello All,
This is just a warning to all of those who use WebHostingTalk. It has been hacked once more and this time the accounts database has been compromised, including credit cards for those who have paid for advertising.
I have verified it has been hacked and decrypted correctly, because my old card details were exposed, including the full credit card number, expiration date, and my full name on the credit card. They got all the information 100% correct.
So please, if you have advertised with WHT/inet, or even paid for a premium membership then cancel your credit card and watch out for unauthorized charges.
Rumors were swirling around Wall Street yesterday that IBM was in talks to buy Sun Microsystems, the owner of technologies such as Java, MySQL, and Solaris. If this were to happen, it would certainly bring to light several interesting possibilities for Open Source Software – and especially MySQL.
IBM – although typically known for their hardware division – has some very capable software development teams in place. Popular Open Source Software that is heavily updated and maintained by the company include:
Apache – chances are, you’re using it for a web server
IBM also develops some closed source applications for the enterprise, primarily the Lotus package and DB2 – and it is DB2 where things could get interesting.
