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Cloud Nine sells up after DoS attack
News Cloud Nine, the UK Internet service provider (ISP) that closed down this week after being hit by a denial of service (DoS) attack, announced early on Thursday morning that it had sold its assets and customer base to fellow ISP ZetNet.
[January 24, 2002, 13:08]
Hack attack leaves ISP's future in doubt
News The future of UK Internet service provider (ISP) Cloud Nine's customers is still uncertain after sources within fellow ISP V21 revealed that talks regarding the sale of Cloud Nine's assets are still taking place.
[January 23, 2002, 11:13]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What's happening on Cloud Nine, man? Well, that's not quite true: before they scurry off into the darkness, Cloud Nine says, "We suffered a denial of service attack that caused physical damage to our systems, and it'll be a while before we're back.
[January 25, 2002, 15:56]
ISP hackers likely to evade justice
News The hackers that brought down UK Internet Service Provider (ISP) Cloud Nine look almost certain to avoid prosecution. Cloud Nine's chief executive, Emeric Miszti, has told ZDNet UK News that whoever carried out January's attacks managed to cover...
[February 14, 2002, 11:01]
Software is HP's fastest growing unit
News He revealed that the company has been "very deliberate" over the past nine months in assessing the impact of the cloud. Given the work that we've done in the last nine months, I think you will see HP taking a much more visible position [on a cloud...
[December 10, 2008, 9:56]
News Schmooze: Bill Gates brings on the lurve machine
News The hackers who put ISP Cloud Nine out of business look likely to get off scott-free, as they took the precaution of deleting Cloud Nine's Web logs after they did the business. Ahhh, the beginnings of spring, and lurve is in the air.
[February 15, 2002, 17:06]
News Schmooze: Hacker attacks and Amazonion profits
News Web companies are so infirm that a little push can send an entire organisation crashing to the ground, as appeared to be the case this week with Cloud Nine. Fast forward a few months later and "Earth's biggest" seller of books, CDs, garden...
[January 25, 2002, 17:36]
IBM and Juniper collude on the cloud
News Juniper and IBM are working on installing this capability into IBM's nine Cloud Labs, which are the company's network of cloud infrastructure and customer liaison centres. Companies using a "private cloud", or internal network services modelled on...
[February 10, 2009, 14:32]
HP dismisses cloud 'hype'
News Rather than jump in to the hype [around cloud computing] out of the gate — you can't pick up a newspaper or a technology magazine today without reading about the cloud — we have been very deliberate over the past nine months, assessing where we...
[December 10, 2008, 15:50]
HP, Intel, Yahoo team up on the cloud
News The new institutes will also host additional test-bed research sites, expanding the global footprint of Open Cirrus to nine locations, making it the most geographically diverse cloud-computing testbed available to researchers.
[June 10, 2009, 11:34]
Inside IBM's only European Cloud Centre
News The IBM cloud infrastructure around the world is composed of nine Cloud Centres and six Customer Centres, the latter available for customers to run their own cloud applications, he said. IBM has set up its first cloud centre in Europe, and it is in...
[March 3, 2009, 16:21]
The Cloud launches its first Wi-Fi hotzone
News The Cloud is also in talks with potential partners to launch its other nine hotzones, described by Saunders as being "at high levels of completion". Wireless Internet provider The Cloud launched its first hotzone in Manchester city centre on Tuesday.
[July 18, 2006, 12:40]
The Cloud signs airport Wi-Fi deal
News The Cloud has also recently won a contract to build a Wi-Fi network across the City of London and in nine UK cities. BAA has picked The Cloud to install and maintain the network. In addition to accessing the Internet, surfers will be able to use...
[March 14, 2006, 16:35]
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding
News Such web-based services — called cloud computing — are the medicine needed for our credit-squeezed economy: they can make businesses more productive by shifting from fixed costs (for example, hiring staff or buying PCs) to variable costs (for...
[July 9, 2009, 16:09]
Parallels CEO: 'The mists are clearing for cloud computing'
Blog End note: you can already see the creative blog headlines by the time we see nine layers in the cloud computing market can't you? Addressing an audience of software developers, SaaS specialists and service providers of all shapes and sizes...
[February 3, 2009, 23:11]
At what point should Microsoft get scared?
Blog Seamless cloud apps on all platforms? One of his predictions was that by next year, there will be netbooks running cloud services within the enterprise that will be good enough to replace the run-of-the-mill enterprise PC "but at a fifth the cost...
[October 29, 2009, 18:53]
IBM floats vision of the cloud's future
News Nine cloud centres around the world — we call them 'Cloud Labs'. Over the past couple of years, IBM has expanded its cloud-computing facilities, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on creating datacentres to do the work and cloud centres to...
[March 16, 2009, 12:14]
Skype lands deal with Wi-Fi operator
News The Cloud has also started to deploy outdoor hot spots in nine cities across the UK. Users will soon be able to access Skype at The Cloud's Wi-Fi hot spots across Europe, the two companies announced on Tuesday.
[October 11, 2006, 12:15]
Irate Bulldog user settles court case
Talkback Some time back an ISP suffered a major DDoS attack, and they sold up completely - you'll find out who bought that troubled ISP by visiting www.cloud-nine.com For Ian, the software developer, I can imagine the frustration of not getting e-mail to...
[March 19, 2006, 8:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The seafood-splattered brain is obviously still on Cloud Nine: this time, I'm tripping away with the insane notion that a telephone company has done something sensible. (Please note: for the first three days of this week I was laid low with a...
[June 6, 1998, 8:03]
