via Adge: What Groupon Means for Grandma’s Coupons Traditional Players Valassis, SmartSource, Others Monitor Digital Darling’s Success, Bottom-line Effects Groupon never set out to take over the traditional couponing space. Nor is it discernibly taking any business yet from the leaders in national newspaper-distributed coupon books — Valassis Communications or News Corp.’s SmartSource. But there’s something about spurning a $6 billion takeout offer from Google and spawning rumors of an initial public offering priced at $25 billion that gets people’s attention

Inside Latisys’ data center in Chicago (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting and colocation provider Latisys ( www.latisys.com ) announced on Tuesday it has introduced a new data center as a service offering designed for large enterprises and service providers that have significant requirements for high-density data center power, cooling and capacity. This new DCaaS offering provides about 250 kilowatts to 2 megawatts of high density power as well as N+1 cooling and the ability to scale to meet the growing needs of these enterprises in data centers built for the future. Unlike the traditional wholesale data center’s model of a triple net lease, which requires companies to lease space at a data center facility and then potentially invest capital and additional personnel to run operations, Latisys’ DCaaS offering delivers colocation under a service contract

JumpBox, used by over 25,000 entities in forty different countries, has announced a promotion aimed at users who want to have free web hosting for one year. As reported on PR Web, used in conjunction with the Amazon Web Services Free Usage Tier, this promotion combines the reliability of the AWS technology infrastructure platform with JumpBox’s best-in-class Open Source server software. “’By taking advantage of the AWS Free Usage Tier and developing a streamlined graphical launch interface for streamlining the traditional launch process, JumpBox is helping businesses and developers get started using AWS,’ says Chief Operating Officer and JumpBox Co-founder Sean Tierney.” Read the Full Story at PR Web View Article

Images Could Change The Authentication Picture Memories of images stick with people far longer than words do. So why is it that the security world is still so set on relying on the recall of traditional text-based passwords when pictures could be more effective? It’s a question of execution, scalability, and fear of change, some experts say

Cloud Creates SIEM Blind Spot After spending buckets of money and years of intense human resources on the deployment of comprehensive security information and event monitoring (SIEM) tools and techniques, many organizations are seeing these precious investments lose much of their value in the rush to reach for the cloud. Public cloud initiatives and, to some degree, even virtualization deployments are adding security black holes to the enterprise security monitoring framework. No “light” of visibility goes in or out of these blind spots.

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Omega One Media has announced plans to offer a new “cloud” Web hosting service.