Blueprint: Five Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With DNS

by Shannon Weyrick, Director of Engineering for NS1 Over the past 25 years there have been dramatic shifts in how companies deliver websites and applications. The pervasiveness of globally distributed cloud computing providers like AWS and Digital Ocean, along with the rise of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and deployment automation, have dramatically reduced the costs and complexities of deploying applications. Users today can deploy servers...

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Facebook Picks Ireland for 2nd European Data Center

Facebook has selected Ireland as the location for its 2nd data center in Europe. Ireland has been Facebook's international headquarters since 2009. The new facility, which will be located in Clonee, County Meath, will run entirely on the renewal energy resources (wind) already available in Ireland and cooled by outside air. The data center will employ the latest designs from the Open Compute Project.  The facility is expected to come online...

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Telensa Raises $18 Million for LPWA-Powered Streetlights

Telensa, a start-up based in Cambridge, UK, raised US$18 million in venture funding for its smart city solutions incorporating low power wide area (LPWA) wireless technology. Telensa makes wireless smart city control applications, a smart streetlight solution that company says has been deployed by over 50 city and regional networks in 8 countries for a total footprint of over 1 million streetlights. The streetlights use LPWA Ultra Narrow Band (UNB)...

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MariaDB Raises $9 Million for Open Source Database

MariaDB announced $9 million in venture funding to support its open-source relational database solutions. The company also named  Michael Howard as its CEO and Michael “Monty” Widenius as chief technology officer. MariaDB, which has offices in Finland and Menlo Park, California, offers an open-source database for SaaS, cloud, and on-premises applications. MariaDB was uilt by the founder and core engineering team behind MySQL. The database powers...

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