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	Cerf: IPv6 'launch' was 20 years in the making The official World IPv6 Launch event, which began at 8 p.m. EDT yesterday, passed with little if any attention from the typical Internet user. For some in the Internet engineering community, however, the day marked the culmination of two decades' worth of work. Read More WEBCAST: SAP Must have Tools and Techniques to Optimize Sales Pipeline In this webcast, Vantage Point Performance's Michelle Vazzana will reveal how to coach your reps to better performing pipelines. Learn More In this Issue Why the Internet needs IPv6 IT hiring forecast optimistic ... for now Tech Debate: Dictate the mobile device or let the user decide? The best Tweets in response to LinkedIn's password leak Can Mozilla right the ship? Once you go Ipv6 you won't go back HP unwraps new cloud and convergence products at Discover 2012 Many 'name' sites sat out World IPv6 Launch Red Hat launches hybrid cloud management software WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Transforming Tier 1 Applications through Virtualization This Technology Spotlight will explore the benefits of virtualizing tier 1 applications and discuss the role that EMC Consulting plays in virtualizing top tier Microsoft applications (including Exchange, SharePoint and SQL) on the VMware platform. Learn More Why the Internet needs IPv6 Explosive growth of Internet users, devices and apps has created demand for more IP addresses. Read More IT hiring forecast optimistic ... for now Despite the recent lackluster employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there's cause for optimism on the IT hiring front, according to Dice.com. In a poll of 800 IT-focused hiring managers and recruiters, the tech jobs site found 73% plan to increase hiring in the second half of the year compared to the first six months of 2012. Read More Tech Debate: Dictate the mobile device or let the user decide? The list of benefits for the Bring Your Own Device movement is long, but so is the list of associated risks. Is the time right to connect employee gadgets to the company network, or should we be more circumspect? Moderator JOHN DIX, Network World Editor in Chief, sets up the debates and recruits the experts. Contact him with thoughts and ideas, jdix@nww.com. The experts ROBERT RHODES, CIO of Houston Healthcare says the risks of BYOD are enormous, allowing employees to use their own devices to access core resources raises serious questions for employer and employee alike. EVAN KAPLAN, CEO of iPass says we are better off letting users select the devices that will make them most productive, and trying to control the process just ends up making us less secure anyway. Read More WHITE PAPER: Limelight Limelight Accelerate Your users won't wait. Reward them with fast interactions, personalized experiences, and dynamic web pages that load in real time. Limelight Accelerate combines browser-based acceleration with a robust network platform to maximize Time to Action—the time it takes for visitors to engage with the content on your site—even on mobile devices. Learn More! The best Tweets in response to LinkedIn's password leak LinkedIn stole the spotlight from World IPv6 Day today, but it didn't intend to. In addition to hearing privacy complaints about a seemingly unnecessary data-gathering feature on its iOS app, LinkedIn is scrambling to find out what happened to the 6.5 million encrypted user passwords it has reportedly leaked. Read More Can Mozilla right the ship? Several years ago, Mozilla was a real up-and-comer -- its Firefox browser was the first serious challenger to Internet Explorer in a long time, and the company's identity with open source enhanced its public perception as a worthy upstart. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Rethink Your Branch Network Strategy In today's virtual enterprise, access to corporate resources must be secure, reliable, and manageable, with consistently enforced policy while simultaneously allowing access from anywhere at any time. This is why access network strategies have become critical to business growth. View Now Once you go Ipv6 you won't go back Despite predictions of doom and gloom, the second annual IPv6 day went off without hardly a hitch. Read More HP unwraps new cloud and convergence products at Discover 2012 HP is making its annual splurge of enterprise product announcements at the Discover event in Las Vegas this week. The announcements fall into two main categories a converged infrastructure, (including converged storage, networking and Big Data), and hybrid cloud. Read More Many 'name' sites sat out World IPv6 Launch The Internet's biggest players -- including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Bing -- turned on IPv6 as part of the World IPv6 Launch Day challenge coordinated by the Internet Society. But which websites are not ready to support the next-gen Internet Protocol? Read More Red Hat launches hybrid cloud management software After a year of testing the software in beta, Red Hat launched its hybrid cloud management software, called CloudForms. Read More
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