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Global Cloud

Gaming marketplace Traderie alerts users to data breach

September 8, 2023

Via: TechRadar

Online gaming marketplace Traderie has suffered a data breach that reportedly saw user data stored on its servers. A TechCrunch article reports on a notification email sent to affected users, as well as the advertisement for the database posted on […]


Global Cloud

Managed Apple IDs, iCloud, and the shadow IT connection

August 25, 2023

Via: Computerworld

Apple is continuing its expansion of Managed Apple IDs for business customers, giving them increased access to iCloud services and Apple Continuity features. Companies get iCloud backup and new syncing options (particularly for passwords, passkeys, and other enterprise credentials) — […]


Global Cloud

The EU Data Act is a lot bigger than iCloud

June 29, 2023

Via: Computerworld

If you use a data processing service provider of any kind, you may be happy to hear about the Data Act coming out of the EU. It requires service providers to make it easier to move your business data between […]


Global Cloud

iCloud for Windows: What is it (and how do you use it)?

January 20, 2023

Via: Computerworld

If you use both Apple and Windows devices, then you should also be using iCloud for Windows. It’s an app for your Windows system that enables you to access iCloud data and features from your PC. To get started, first […]


Cloud Clients

Apple improves iCloud.com for better ease of use

October 27, 2022

Via: Computerworld

Apple is testing improvements to iCloud.com designed to make it easier to use — and has unveiled a new look and a few new tricks to reflect features recently introduced in its operating systems. iCloud services for the rest of […]


Deployment Models, Private Cloud

The essential guide to iCloud login

May 20, 2022

Via: Computerworld

The iCloud login process provides plenty of value without requiring a great deal of thought. Here’s what do need to know about iCloud login and how to get the most from it. What is iCloud login? First, a swift recap […]


Global Cloud

iCloud goes down: Live by the service, die by the service

March 22, 2022

Via: Computerworld

Each time we experience an Apple iCloud, Spotify, Slack, Verizon, Google, Peloton, or any other form of server-based outage, we’re reminded that everyone should have multiple layers of backup to maintain data and work to ensure key services still work […]


Global Cloud

What is iCloud+ (and why should you use it)?

September 21, 2021

Via: Computerworld

If you received an Apple email letting you know you’ve been upgraded to iCloud+ at no additional charge, you’re not alone. So, what is iCloud+? What do you get, and why should you use it? What is iCloud+? Announced at […]


Global Cloud

Updated app from Apple brings iCloud Passwords to Windows

August 18, 2021

Via: ArsTechnica

Apple has released a new version of iCloud for Windows, numbered 12.5. The update adds the ability to access and manage passwords saved in iCloud from a Windows machine, a feature that users have long requested. Apple has been gradually […]


Cloud Security

Apple confirms it will begin scanning iCloud Photos for child abuse images

August 5, 2021

Via: Tech Crunch

Later this year, Apple will roll out a technology that will allow the company to detect and report known child sexual abuse material to law enforcement in a way it says will preserve user privacy. Apple told TechCrunch that the […]


Cloud Clients, Global Cloud

Cloud-based thin-client Macs become a reality

May 17, 2021

Via: Computerworld

Does your workforce actually need company equipment, or do they simply require access to cloud-based Macs and PCs? Teradici and MacStadium are betting the future is Mac As A Service. Toward the thin-client Mac The two companies are pooling skills […]


Global Cloud

Apple takes the Mac to the cloud

December 8, 2020

Via: Computerworld

I’ve been talking about the future of the “desktop” on the cloud for years now. Starting around 2012, I predicted Chromebooks would become a big deal. Then I saw Windows moving from PCs to a cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) model beginning […]


Global Cloud

Cloudflare, Apple, and others back a new way to make the Internet more private

December 8, 2020

Via: ArsTechnica

For more than three decades, the Internet’s most key underpinning has posed privacy and security threats to the billion-plus people who use it every day. Now, Cloudflare, Apple, and content-delivery network Fastly have introduced a novel way to fix that […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft’s Cloud PC plan for Apple Silicon and iOS?

November 5, 2020

Via: Computerworld

As Apple’s major Mac event looms, more information concerning Microsoft’s cunning plan that lets Apple devices run Windows leaks… and it looks as if it’s all in the cloud. Microsoft Cloud PC As has been previously reported, Microsoft is developing […]


Global Cloud

It looks like Apple is developing new iCloud products and services

May 11, 2020

Via: Computerworld

Despite its importance to Apple’s ecosystem, iCloud has never quite become the cloud industry powerhouse it might have become. But it looks as if the company has plans to change that. Apple is hiring for iCloud The company has been […]


Global Cloud

iCloud goes down: Apple joins the Google, Facebook, Cloudflare cloud outage club

July 5, 2019

Via: ZDnet

For about three hours on Thursday, Apple had a widespread cloud outage that affected services including the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV. Multi-tenant cloud is supposedly more resilient than in-house infrastructure. But events in the past month have […]


Deployment Models, Private Cloud

Microsoft’s App Store now offers Apple’s iCloud for Windows

June 12, 2019

Via: Computerworld

Apple has published an all-new version of its iCloud app for Windows users and the software is available for download from Microsoft’s App Store. What is Apple’s iCloud? iCloud is an essential component across Apple’s universe. You use it to […]


Global Cloud

China Telecom outage takes down Apple, Microsoft and AWS for 7 hours

May 15, 2019

Via: TechRadar

China Telecom recently experienced a significant outage that lasted nearly eight hours and affected many Western sites and services such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Slack, SAP and others. The network monitoring company ThousandEyes first discovered the outage when its global […]


Service Models

Data shows time is right for ‘iCloud: Enterprise edition’

September 4, 2018

Via: Computerworld

Apple has a huge opportunity to diversify its offer with a range of powerful mobile services aimed at enterprise users — that’s the only logical step it can take on news that almost three-fourths of the work done on mobile […]


Featured, Global Cloud

Cloud outages are not as rare as you might hope

July 26, 2016

Via: Andy Melman

Not long ago Apple’s cloud went through a widespread outage at the beginning of June. For almost three hours multiple iCloud and App Store services experienced disruptions, while iCloud users had to postpone their plans involving their data stored in […]