The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, January 12

Which cloud providers had the best uptime last year? Next-gen Rust language moves to 1.0 alpha IT News Daily January 12, 2015 The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, January 12 European ministers want tighter watch on Internet content ... Obama will propose faster reporting of corporate hacks ... Alibaba may buy into India e-commerce... and more news for Monday. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Which cloud providers had the best uptime last year? 2. Next-gen Rust language moves to 1.0 alpha 3. Obama aims to tighten laws on data hacking and student privacy 4. Twitter looks to expand advertising efforts beyond its own site 5. Windows 7 hits mid-life, but no crisis -- yet 6. Obama will unveil new cybersecurity initiatives this week Which cloud providers had the best uptime last year? READ MORE Next-gen Rust language moves to 1.0 alpha READ MORE WHITE PAPER: PC Connection | EMC 20 Questions You Want Answered About Flash All-Flash Arrays can impact the success of your data center roll-out. See why you should consider XtremIO to fulfill your storage requirements. Does the product provide 100% global inline data reduction for capacity optimization with performance that actually accelerates as data reduction rates increase? Obama aims to tighten laws on data hacking and student privacy U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to call Monday for new federal legislation requiring hacked private companies to report quickly the compromise of consumer data. READ MORE Twitter looks to expand advertising efforts beyond its own site So far, Twitter's advertising team has concentrated on sponsored tweets and variants thereof that appear on Twitter.com and the company's mobile apps. But as the Wall Street Journal reports, Twitter is looking at a new place to put its ads: other websites. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. An Intelligent Roadmap for Capacity Planning Read this whitepaper for these 3 takeaways: • The complexities of pursuing efficient capacity planning • How to define functional requirements for your capacity management strategy • A capacity management strategy that assures service levels while reducing performance risk and hardware footprint Learn More>> Windows 7 hits mid-life, but no crisis -- yet READ MORE Obama will unveil new cybersecurity initiatives this week President Barack Obama is set to unveil a series of initiatives to bolster U.S. cybersecurity that he will detail in speeches this week. READ MORE Follow IT News You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2015 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **