Tuesday, September 28, 2010

At long last, Obama highlights IPv6 issue

Another 'rare' out-of-band security bulletin coming Tuesday | On tails, green peas and breaking waves: What's hot in space?

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At long last, Obama highlights IPv6 issue
The Obama Administration until now it has ignored one of the biggest issues facing the Internet: the rapid depletion of IPv4 Internet addresses and the imminent need for carriers and content providers to adopt IPv6. Read More


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Join this discussion and learn the importance and nuances of load testing, measuring scalability, setting page performance and transaction response rates, and what to do when things go wrong. You'll even hear performance improvement tips that are quick to implement and free. View Now

Another 'rare' out-of-band security bulletin coming Tuesday
ASP.NET vulnerability needs immediate attention"Out-of-band" security notifications from Microsoft, security risks so serious they can't wait for the next regularly schedule "Patch Tuesday," have been described as rare, but this is, by my count, the third one this year after one in March and another in August. Do they still deserve to be called rare? Read More

On tails, green peas and breaking waves: What's hot in space?
New space images show lightning, lagoons and big iron on planets such as Mercury, Juniper and Venus. Read More

Biggest insider threat? Sys admin gone rogue
What's one of the biggest insider threats to the corporate network? The high-tech folks that put it together, make changes to it, and know more about what's on it and how it works than anybody else. Read More

Sprint shows off 4G video apps
Sprint had a simple message to deliver to Boston today: Its WiMAX network is up and ready for business. Read More


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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers
Citrix Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2009 Application Delivery Controllers Magic Quadrant, Gartner Group Read now!

The 17 Most Dangerous Places on the Web
Those photos of Jessica Alba may be murder on your PC. That Google search result that looks as if it answers all your questions may do nothing but create a serious tech headache. The fun you had watching that hilarious video you downloaded may not be worth the misery it can cause your system. Read More

Implications of the IBM/BLADE deal to Cisco
Could lose hundreds of millions in switch revenue, firm estimatesCisco gained another competitor is data center switching this week with IBM's acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies, a specialist in blade and top-of-rack switches. Read More

Buzzblog: Press continues to ignore Apple and Google, research finds
Pew study spotlights media obsession with less important companies An astonishing 73.5 percent of technology stories produced by leading news organizations over the past year inexplicably failed to focus on either Apple or Google, according to a report released today by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Read More

How to keep employees from stealing intellectual property
Your data is your business. And if you're not vigilant about your employees' access to that data, you're going to end up out of business. That's the advice of Patricia Titus, current CISO of Unisys and former CISO of the Transportation Security Administration. Read More


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Electronic Software Delivery
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Government wiretapping: Coming to a computer near you?
Tap, tap, tap. I'm sorry, could you please speak up? The federal employees playing monkey in the middle on our Skype call couldn't quite make out what you were saying. Read More

Gartner: 1 in 4 server workloads will be virtual by year-end
Gartner says one out of every four server workloads will be in a virtual machine by the end of 2010, but that enterprises should attempt to double or triple the size of their virtualization deployments. Read More

Where is your WAN going?
For many years, WAN services were extremely straight-forward. For most of the 1980s, you had dial-up services, and both analog and digital point-to-point "Digital Transmission Services," a.k.a. "private lines". And the only major evolution was that you could go faster as your traffic increased with a lower cost per bit-per-second. Read More

Cisco, EMC and VMware help Orange build private clouds
Orange Business Services has formed an alliance with Cisco, EMC and VMware to help enterprises adopt private clouds, the company said on Monday. Read More



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