We give thanks this Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving from DataYard! Our friends and customers make our jobs bright every day. In this time of gratitude, we want to stop for a moment to give thanks for you. We appreciate the confidence you place in us each day. Counting you among our friends and customers is something for which we are especially […]
Holiday servings of spam
“My Inbox has exploded!” It’s November. Fall is in the air, and so is seasonal marketing. If you think your email Inbox is suddenly a lot busier, it most certainly is not your imagination. The holiday selling season kicks off just after Halloween and won’t really peak until it’s too late for express delivery to […]
It’s a wrap: NodeBots 2015
NodeBots 2015 was a “smashing” success! The event, sponsored by Sparkbox, DataYard, and Gem City JS, gave folks the opportunity to experiment with an Arduino, motors, a simple robotic frame, and Javascript code (via NodeJS) to glue it all together and make a functional robot. Everyone came up with a different robot using the assortment […]
The Conductor: New Tool to Manage DataYard Services!
I’m excited to announce that yesterday we pushed out version 1.0 of The Conductor, the web portal we developed to equip customers with the tools to perform basic administrative functions on their DataYard services. We only have support for Connect Exchange services built into The Conductor today, but that’s what we set out to accomplish with […]
In the Spotlight: Net Awards Nominees – Sparkbox and Wonderful Machine
In the Spotlight: Net Awards Nominees – Sparkbox and Wonderful Machine DataYard’s friends vie for Agency of the Year and Redesign of the Year! We love sharing good news about our friends, so when we heard that both Sparkbox and Wonderful Machine were nominated for net awards, we just had to tell you more! Net awards […]
NodeBots 2015
I’m thrilled to announce that DataYard is a sponsor for GemCityJS’s local “NodeBots” competition on July 25! In a nutshell, participants will get a bag of parts when they check in at the Firefly Building, the venue hosting the event. The parts bag will have an Arduino, some motors, a motor control board, a T-shirt, and other goodies. We’ll also […]
SSLv3 Man in the Middle (POODLE)
SSLv3 Man in the Middle (POODLE) What Is It? Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) – a security vulnerability that forces the downgrade of negotiated session protocol to SSLv3, a legacy protocol used to establish secure web communication (HTTPS). The vulnerabilities are limited in scope and several client and servers restrict the use of […]
OpenSSL Security Vulnerability: Heartbleed
OpenSSL Security Vulnerability: Heartbleed Late yesterday, a vulnerability in the OpenSSL libraries, CVE-2014-0160, was announced. The OpenSSL libraries are used to provide the secured or encrypted connections for web stores like Amazon or EBay, banks, and other sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. This vulnerability would allow attackers to learn the private keys used to […]
Forging a Team of Technical Professionals
Forging a Team of Technical Professionals Over the last year, I’ve had the pleasure of watching DataYard’s Technical Operations team work under intense pressure. On the surface it may seem oddly sadistic for me to talk about it being my “pleasure” watching the team perform under these conditions, but I mean it with the deepest […]
Open House — Under the Hood at DataYard
Open House at DataYard On November 9, 2012, we hosted an Open House at our new facility. We called it our “Under the Hood” tour, and gave our visitors a chance to see what makes our new facility, particularly our new Data Center, tick. Below are some select photos from the event.