The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6

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	The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6 For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the 'Net's current addressing scheme -- known as IPv4 -- to handle the network-of-network's explosive growth. Yet many U.S. CIOs and CTOs continue to harbor misinformation that they use to justify why they are not adopting the next-generation IPv6 standard. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Introducing Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) is an emerging technology that will revolutionize the way data center networks are architected and how they function. Read Now. In this Issue Waiting for Terabit Ethernet? Don't hold your breath. What I like about Juniper's QFabric 802.11u: Wireless 'superglue'? Wisconsin blizzard vs. data center: How Marquette won DEMO 2011: V3's virtual desktop speeds past local PC Will cloud backup services finally put tape backups in trash can? 100G Ethernet stays pricey as speed needs soar Cisco upgrades its video portfolio Bigger, faster enterprise storage: Linux NAS goes 64-bit Verizon to offer cloud-based unified communications Amazon wants to make it easier to build complex clouds WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Waiting for Terabit Ethernet? Don't hold your breath. Despite the fact that Facebook famously said that it needs Terabit Ethernet, the wait for the technology could last years, experts say. Read More What I like about Juniper's QFabric Ever since I first heard about Juniper's "Project Stratus" about 2 years ago, I've been poking around to get more details about this top secret initiative. Despite many glasses of red wine, my Juniper contacts remained silent but I did get a few hints at the project from some big Juniper customers. Last week Juniper finally gave some details last week while I was skiing the icy slopes of Vermont. Read More 802.11u: Wireless 'superglue'? There's been a lot of talk about the mobile operators using Wi-Fi offload to economically plug coverage gaps in their wireless WANs. So how do the network-to-network transitions actually happen? Read More WEBCAST: Wildpackets 10G Analysis & Troubleshooting without Compromise You need to analyze and troubleshoot 10 Gig network traffic without suffering dropped packets or having to slice, filter and dissect your network segments. Learn how with a TimeLine appliance you can have real-time network performance, including VoIP statistics, while capturing all packets to disk. View Now Wisconsin blizzard vs. data center: How Marquette won As blizzards raged across the Midwest in January, snow piled up on the data center roof at Marquette University and wreaked havoc with cooling systems. Here's how Microsoft's Lync unified communications tool helped IT fight back. Read More DEMO 2011: V3's virtual desktop speeds past local PC Stratosphere from V3 can support up to 400 virtual desktops in a 2U server, creating faster virtual desktops than a local system. Jon Brodkin gets a speed demonstration of this system at DEMO Spring 2011. Read More Will cloud backup services finally put tape backups in trash can? While technologies exist to vastly improve backup and recovery processes, many enterprises have delayed modernizing their backup infrastructure. Now a confluence of factors - greater storage demands, the need for faster disaster recovery, and the availability of cloud-based backup services - is spurring action. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Four keys to Improving Quality This white paper examines the systems engineering life cycle and discusses four keys for improving quality across the systems engineering "V" to help A&D companies deliver quality on time while containing costs more effectively. Read Now 100G Ethernet stays pricey as speed needs soar Virtualization, video and massive amounts of data are all driving enterprises and service providers toward 100-Gigabit Ethernet, but the cost of the fledgling technology remains prohibitively high and few products have been installed, industry observers said at the Ethernet Technology Summit. Read More Cisco upgrades its video portfolio Cisco unveiled new equipment top help large companies create and distribute videos. Read More Bigger, faster enterprise storage: Linux NAS goes 64-bit My, my, my ... Linux-based network attached storage has grown up. This month, two vendors released 64-bit NAS units geared toward the enterprise, capable of enormous storage density and equipped with enterprise-class price tags. Read More Verizon to offer cloud-based unified communications Verizon is getting set to offer its customers unified communications services that can include presence information, instant messaging, videoconferencing and fixed-mobile call handoffs through a Cisco Systems-based cloud infrastructure. Read More Amazon wants to make it easier to build complex clouds With the launch of CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to put together stacks of applications and resources for its cloud computing service. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS When IT professionals cheat We asked 200 IT professionals to tell us how often IT workers cheat on certification exams, buy fake gear or illegally share software. Here are the results. Tech 'firsts' that made a President's day From the first presidential steamboat ride to the introduction of electricity in the White House to Obama's famous BlackBerry, our nation's commanders in chief have always enjoyed the privilege of being exposed to technology's cutting edge -- even if they haven't always embraced the opportunities. MOST-READ STORIES IT graduates not 'well-trained, ready-to-go' Playing around with tracking protection in IE9 The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6 Fake online 'girlfriend' bilks $200,000 from Illinois man How to turn Chrome into gold Canonical overrides Banshee team's decision Google scrambling to restore Gmail to 150,000 users 802.11u: Wireless 'superglue'? Pay no attention to that widget recording your every move Juniper leapfrogs Cisco with QFabric data center product blitz
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