| What's driving this university to IPv6? Going green Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities management systems, which are used for monitoring building access, temperature control and power management. The goal: improved energy conservation across its campus. Crime lab saves energy costs by turning up heat in the data center IT Roadmap speakers will share tips on green IT, virtualization and building resilient data centers. NTIA seeks volunteers to review broadband applications The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, scheduled to distribute US$4.7 billion in broadband deployment grants over the next 15 months, will count on volunteers to review grant applications. Chrome OS spotlights rapidly changing mobile Web environment Emerging Web standards, more powerful mobile browser are creating a new kind of mobile Web application. EMC gets Data Domain, now what? With its victory over NetApp in the acquisition battle for Data Domain, EMC will soon have the deduplication company in its arsenal, but it paid a high price and realizing a return on its investment will depend largely on how it executes. iNag for iPhone Like many network administrators, I use Nagios to monitor my network. Nagios is an open-source network monitoring system that uses SNMP, Perl, and other languages to monitor your network, with a Web UI for viewing the current state of your network and the devices within. Cisco, VMware, NetApp testing multi-tenant cloud Yesterday NetApp revealed that Cisco, VMware and NetApp are testing an end-to-end secure multi-tenancy platform. Ringtone royalties are music to these ears This splendid idea inexplicably managed to raise a ruckus right before the holiday weekend: Every time a musical ringtone plays in public suggests the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers carriers should pay a royalty for the "performance," a cost that would unfortunately need to be passed along to wireless phone users. The iPhone 3GS-for-Speedy isn't quite as speedy as we thought. In a succinct, informative Macworld article, Glenn Fleishman explains why. Simply put: for pulling down data, the 3GS can use AT&T's newer HSDPA service, at 7.2 Mbps. The corresponding upstream service is HSUPA, at either 1.4 or 1.9 Mbps. AT&T is building out this higher speed network. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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