Zappos was hacked recently and has requested the users to change their passwords. But if you are a user accessing the site from out of the country, it shows you a splash screen that the site is under construction. How must a user change password if he or she cannot access the site. I heard the site is hosted by Amazon WS. Can this site be trusted and the provider that owns the business. What are your thoughts?
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Zappos Hack Exposes Passwords
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012Microsoft Windows Server Price changes rumor
Friday, December 9th, 2011We have been hearing this rumor about Microsoft increasing the price of Windows Server beginning from January 2012. We investigated and spoke to our contacts at Microsoft and the LARs that we work with to confirm the rumor. We learnt that Microsoft has announce price increase but not for North America but for Lation America starting Jan 2012. We also seen some attention grabbing emails prospecting for additional business in December before rumored price increase. Again, no January price increase on Windows Server has been announced.
Will Facebook Reshape the Datacenter Through Open Compute Project (OCP)?
Monday, November 7th, 2011Open Compute Project (OCP) was formed by Facebook in April 2011 as an effort to shape the hardware design for its datacenter in Prineville, Oregon. The social networking giant said its datacenter improved efficiency by 38 percent and lowered costs by 24 percent. Facebook also said it achieved a power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.07, compared with 1.5 for its other datacenters. Kudos Facebook!
