Obama's $19B Cybersecurity Budget to Address Talent Gap, Outdated Tech
US President Barack Obama has proposed a $19 billion budget for US government cybersecurity for the 2017 fiscal year, an increase of over one-third, according to an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal. Source: Web Hosting Review
Average Cloud User Leverages Six Different Clouds: Report
Maturing cloud practices are leading the average cloud user to leverage six different clouds, between running applications and experimenting on public and private clouds, RightScale said in its latest report. Source: Web Hosting Review
Super Bowl 50 Live Stream Broke Records But was Far from Seamless
With Super Bowl 50 having just wrapped up at Levi’s Stadium in Silicon Valley, it wasn’t surprising that technology played a huge role in how people experienced the game. Source: Web Hosting Review
Google and Level 3 Interconnect Network Backbones
Network peering is one of the wonkier areas of the internet and data center infrastructure world, but performance of internet services, be they online video or cloud infrastructure, depends greatly on how efficiently companies behind those services and service providers they rely on exchange traffic with others. Source: Web Hosting Review
ICANN Names CEO and President, Current CEO Chehadé to Leave Next Month
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced on Monday a replacement for outgoing CEO Fadi Chehadé. Göran Marby, currently Director-General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), will start his role as ICANN CEO and president in May 2016. Source: Web Hosting Review