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Helm is the personal email server you never knew you needed

sudshr47 October 17, 2018

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Maybe Hillary Clinton had the right idea.

The idea of a personal email server may be forever associated with Clinton’s infamous email woes, but the technology — which takes email out of the cloud services that most of us use and puts it into a physical drive in your home — is sound. There are a lot of advantages to running your own email server, privacy being the main one. But, to most, it just sounds like such a hassle.

Not so with Helm, a triangular-shaped email server that aims to make setting up a personal email server as easy as adding an Amazon Echo to your kitchen counter. With the Helm, your email is no longer floating in the cloud somewhere. Instead, it’s physically in your home — still accessible from anywhere, but only by you and people whom you trust. Read more…

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MindBody-owned FitMetrix exposed millions of user records — thanks to servers without passwords

sudshr47 October 11, 2018

FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody, has exposed millions of user records because it left several of its servers without a password. The company builds fitness tracking software for gyms and group classes — like CrossFit and SoulCycle — that displays heart rate and other fitness metric […]

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Here’s why you couldn’t buy anything for the first few hours of Amazon Prime Day

sudshr47 July 20, 2018

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Prime Day was a success by almost all accounts with over 100 million products sold, but there were overshadowing site issues as well.

Many users reported seeing the errors, including Amazon’s dog-filled error page, and thanks to CNBC we now have some insight as to why. According to internal documents, Amazon failed in having enough servers to handle all the customers. Within the first few minutes after things kicked off on 3 p.m. Eastern Time on July 16, many customers started seeing problems.

Per the report, an “auto-scaling” feature was supposed to kick in when demand from customers got too high. This didn’t happen, which resulted in teams at the company manually adding and deploying servers. CNBC notes that Amazon’s proprietary request server, Sable, which provides “computation and storage services,” was the primary cause of the breakdown. Read more…

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IBM brings its Power9 servers with Nvidia GPUs to its cloud

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

IBM is hosing its annual THINK conference to packed halls in Las Vegas this week. Given how important its cloud business has become to its bottom line, it’s no surprise that this event features its fair share of cloud news. Among today’s announcements it the launch of the third generation of Power Systems servers in […]

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