Security tightened for .org The Public Interest Registry will announce today that it has begun cryptographically signing the .org top-level domain using DNS security extensions known as DNSSEC. Google Search Appliance now can index billions of documents A revamped software architecture for the Google Search Appliance (GSA) and a new high-end model of this enterprise search device lift its indexing capacity to billions of documents and make it easier to scale it up. Server sales dropping faster than in dot-com crash: Gartner Intel and AMD are spicing up the server market with ever-faster processors, but server vendors have suffered the largest revenue decline seen this decade, Gartner has found. Did Cisco win big AT&T router RFP? Cisco may have bested Juniper in a big router win at AT&T. A bulletin from UBS this week, which was pounced upon by TheStreet.com, appears to lean that way. The contract prompted UBS to downgrade Juniper stock to a Neutral rating. In its bulletin on the Juniper downgrade, UBS states: Windows 7 to ship Oct. 22 Windows 7 will be generally available on Oct. 22 and the code will be finalized and sent out to manufacturing in late July, according to Microsoft. 'Huh?!' How to translate Wi-Fi vendor-speak What's beamforming? Airtime fairness? When a vendor claims to support "wireless security," what kind of security are we talking about? SMBs ban social networking sites Small and medium sized businesses are banning social networking sites at a rapid rate, according to research from Telstra and Symantec subsidiary, MessageLabs. A Proposal to Rejuvinate Interop in 2010 We attended this year's spring Interop show and found it sleepy--and quite frankly a bit dull. Attendance was down, which is understandable in this economy. However, the big disappointment with Interop this year and in recent years is that it has lost its mojo. But we have a proposal to wake Interop from its doldrums next year--make interoperability testing for application delivery system (i.e. WAN optimization) vendors a centerpiece of the show. Cybersecurity: What will the attention span be this time? The idea that the White House would be interested in cybersecurity is not new. At least since former President Bush appointed Richard Clarke as National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism there has been some level of attention to this topic. But this attention has seemed to fade quite quickly after someone is appointed to a high-level cybersecurity czar-like role. Most people who have taken on that role have quickly quit in frustration. Start-up tackles identity-as-service The mantra of the federation generation could be "no corporation is an island" and that's been taken as the marketing slogan for a new identity-as-a-service start-up called "GLUU." Today's focus: Wolfram|Alpha, brilliant but boring Last week I pondered the nature of search, what it would mean to have a "better" search, and how when people have to make choices over things like which search service to use they tend to gravitate to that which they are most familiar with unless an alternative has an undeniable edge. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. |
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