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GlobalDots Cloud Performance & Security Expertise

We often get questions about what services we can offer to companies looking to move to the cloud, reduce cloud costs, or protect their digital assets in the cloud.

Massive DDoS Attack Generates 500 Million Packets per Second

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks do not have to be bandwidth-intensive to be disruptive and hard to mitigate.

How to Overcome Five Common Cloud Challenges

It’s 2019, and the business landscape has changed. Many companies have migrated to the cloud, their employees are working remotely, and they’re competing in a global marketplace.

Rackspace Delivers End-to-End Management for AWS Database Services

Rackspace announced the launch of Rackspace Managed Database Services for Amazon Web Services, a suite of services designed to accelerate customers’ ability to leverage adoption of Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue and Amazon Athena.

Attackers Use Google Cloud to Target US, UK Banks

A malicious email campaign has been found abusing a Google Cloud Storage service to host a payload sent to employees of financial services organizations, Menlo Labs researchers report.

Multi-CDN Technology Overview

Multi-CDN is a strategy of using more than one CDN provider in order to further improve latency, uptimes and cost efficiency on a global scale.Recently we have received many questions from our customers about the multi-CDN technology, so we've decided to write this quick overview to clarify how[...]

Ten New Data Centers: Cloudflare Expands Global Network to 165 Cities

Cloudflare announced the addition of ten new data centers across the United States, Bahrain, Russia, Vietnam, Pakistan and France (Réunion). They're delighted to help improve the performance and security of over 12 million domains across these diverse countries that collectively represent about[...]

Symantec and Fortinet Team Up to Deliver Comprehensive Cloud Security Service

Cyber security firms Symantec and Fortinet have announced an expansive partnership that aims to deliver comprehensive security services across endpoint, network and cloud environments.

Oracle Files Lawsuit Over $10bn Pentagon Cloud Contract

Oracle has again launched legal proceedings over the US Pentagon's single-vendor cloud contract, filing a suit against the Department of Defence in the US Court of Federal Claims.

IBM Chosen to Push Cloud-Native Banking Platform

UK software firm Thought Machine has chosen IBM to accelerate the implementation of its cloud-native banking platform.