A service interruption on Azure storage services late Tuesday was caused by Microsoft’s attempts to roll out a performance update that had been earlier tested for several weeks.An issue was discovered as part of the update to Azure Storage that resulted in reduced capacity across services using Azure Storage, including Virtual Machines, Visual Studio Online, Websites, Search and other Microsoft services, wrote Jason Zander, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Azure team in a blog post Wednesday.The interruption impacted storage services across the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia.

Infosys BPO, the back-office services subsidiary of Infosys Ltd., has sacked its chief financial officer Abraham Mathews for breaching the company’s code of conduct, India’s second-largest software services provider said in a statement on Tuesday.
The company didn’t disclose details about what Mathews did, but added CEO Gautam Thakkar had resigned, taking moral responsibility for his subordinate’s actions.

Encryption is a vital tool in helping keep your messages tucked away from prying eyes. Trying to stay safe while texting, though, meant also being siloed into effective-yet-niche chat platforms such as Silent Circle. But today, WhatsApp will start bringing end-to-end encryption to its 600 million users.Read more...

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