Vint Cerf on IPv6, home networks, extraterrestrial Internet, more

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	Vint Cerf on IPv6, home networks, extraterrestrial Internet, more Vint Cerf takes his title of Chief Internet Evangelist for Google seriously. He is knee-deep in several projects to bring the next versions of the Internet into the world, or in some cases, into the solar system. These include a new extraterrestrial Internet, (the so-called "InterPlanetary Internet") and pushing for worldwide IPv6 adoption. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix XenServer Download Free XenServer XenServer is the only enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform you don't have to pay for. With live migration, centralized multi-server management, and shared storage support, you can't afford not to try it! Click to continue In this Issue Does Cisco "get" consumers? Do you want competitors telling the world what's wrong with your product? How About This for an Interesting Merger - Juniper and Riverbed Are customers getting the best of Cisco and causing its downturn in margins? Star vs Snowflake Schemas – what's your belief? 7 other game shows that Watson should be on WEBCAST: Infoblox Automation Gives IT Network Stability On this webinar, IT staff at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will discuss how the hospital is using Infoblox network automation products to deliver "Life Critical" Network Uptime, augment current HIPAA strategies & simplify tasks. Register Now Does Cisco "get" consumers? The consumer market doesn't seem too hard to figure out: give us cool gadgets that can do useful, practical things - that's things with an 's' - at a reasonable price and we'll buy it. Some of those things include data (e-mail and text), voice and video. Maybe a flashlight and a currency converter too, or a tip calculator for lunch and dinner. Read More Do you want competitors telling the world what's wrong with your product? At the RSA Conference 2011 continuing today in San Francisco, exhibitors try all sorts of ways to get attention, especially from reporters. One intriguing approach came from BeyondTrust, a provider of software that controls what apps employees can use on the corporate network. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Maximize SAN Infrastructure Performance Although SAN has advantages in performance, reliability, availability and provisioning, it is affected by fragmentation and performance will decline unless it is addressed. Find out why this is true and how to best avoid SAN slowdowns. Read more How About This for an Interesting Merger - Juniper and Riverbed At the beginning of the year, the editors at Network World send us bloggers a question of mergers we expect in the next year. It's a guessing game (for fun) and an idea for a blog. I'm a bit late to the fun this year, but I read something a couple weeks ago that made me think of Juniper and Riverbed. Read More Are customers getting the best of Cisco and causing its downturn in margins? Cisco's eroding margins has been a hot topic for discussion in many circles, particularly between partners and customers. Since the Cisco stock conference call and its Q2 results announcement, many people have spoken up on the margins and profit loss. Read More WEBCAST: Adobe Turn Unrealistic Deadlines into Realistic Deadlines Adobe Acrobat X can help give your team the power to turn unrealistic deadlines into realistic deadlines.Join the Adobe Acrobat X software webinar and go from under pressure to overachieving. Learn More Star vs Snowflake Schemas – what's your belief? Two common designs for a Data Warehouse are identified as a "Star Schema" and a "Snowflake Schema". When we discuss the differences and individual preferences, usually the gloves come off and DBA's will duke it out. It becomes a religious argument with plenty of passion and zeal. Let's take a look at why. Read More 7 other game shows that Watson should be on Sure, it's real easy for all of the braniacs to get excited about IBM's Watson supercomputer destroying all humans in a game of Jeopardy – that's the ultimate in knowledge, quick wits and thinking. But with the excitement around this event, I think IBM's engineers should go the extra step and start putting Watson on other game shows. Read More
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