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We know plaintext passwords are bad, yet for many a service provider, user API keys are left out in the open. Enough, says this CIO.

No doubt you have all heard of the infamous US “no fly list”. Well, judging by my most recent experience with US officialdom, I must be on a “no visa list”. This upsets me not because I wanted yet another visit to the US to attend a vendor’s conference but because I spent $208 for the privilege of applying for the unobtainable passport stamp.

Web services and domain names provider Melbourne IT is to buy Australian cloud services company Uber Global in a deal valued at $15.5 million.

A growing reliance on Web applications coupled with their vulnerability to persistent cyber-attacks are fuelling demand for Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) in the Asia-Pacific, according to newly published research.

Listed web hosting and domain registry company Melbourne IT has selected Trend Micro Deep Security as a key component of its managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) service to provide its customers with scalable security for the cloud.

Australian Web solutions vendor Hostworks facilitated the live Internet broadcast of the recent Australian Little Athletics 2014 Championships (ALAC) using its newly launched Media Foundry.

Melbourne-based base2services Chief Technology Officer Aaron Walker differs with what he says is the traditional industry view that the job of a DevOps team is merely to add new features and to keep an organisation’s systems stable and fast.

New Zealand web hosting and domain names provider Web Drive has selected Arbor Networks’ cloud DDoS solution to protect its own and customer networks from Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

Cloud applications may be a month-to-month affair, but getting your data out when the relationship ends is an important consideration. Cloud integration provider Informatica has widened the range of services it supports for bulk data migration.

Australian web content and online services digital agency, BlueArc Group, has weighed into the new business year, winning contracts with the Jenny Craig weight loss organisation and Virgin Mobile.

Worldwide service revenues generated by LTE mobile networks are forecast to grow rapidly once networks are launched, exceeding $265 billion by 2016, and while the total number of LTE consumer subscribers will be higher than enterprise in five years time, consumers will in fact only account for under half of total revenues.

With Australia having a comparatively strong economy amongst its peers around the world, a strong currency and a resources-backed income source, reports that Amazon is considering both an Australian data centre and a local online presence would seem to make good business sense.

The connector is able to connect to mailboxes and public folders, has read/write capacity and supports all item types exposed by web services: Calendar, Contact, DistributionList, Message, Post, Task etc'¦

Web hosting and domain name services provider Melbourne IT has signed a three year deal with Indian IT services corporation HCL Technologies to implement its global Integrated Web Services IT integration project. The $18 million project is expected to take three years to complete.

Amazon has come up with another web service: Amazon Simple Notification Service.