Most IPv6-certified home network gear is frightfully buggy

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	Most IPv6-certified home network gear is frightfully buggy The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab held an IPv6 consumer electronics Plugfest a couple of weeks ago and CableLabs has scheduled two more for this year. The Lab is tight-lipped about the results, but the sad fact is that most home routers and DSL/cable modems certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are so full of implementation bugs that they can't be used by ISPs for IPv6. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Foundations of Security Information Management This guide examines the details of each of these processes and provides best practices to build a foundation for SIM. Learn more. In this Issue Does Arizona pay an IT penalty for ignoring DST? Management Vendors Fail to Measure "Real" User Experience "Nothing new with iPad 2?" What's new is...the iPad. 2010 - The year of the iPad Is Open Stack Taking Over the Cloud? Absolutely brilliant: Windows upgrades through the years So I ask Groupon customer service for help ... Do I have to buy Android? 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 Arizona pay an IT penalty for ignoring DST? Last week I noticed that Daylight Saving Time would be upon us this Sunday, March 13, and I got to wondering if there were IT-related issues involved in the changeover that Network World should be covering. An initial search query on the subject reminded me that Arizona doesn't participate in DST at all, which got me wondering whether that independent streak in and of itself leads to any techno-headaches.... Read More Management Vendors Fail to Measure "Real" User Experience We have a problem, Houston. IT managers want to measure their users' real experience, but the vendor-supplied tools at their disposal do not spit out the measurements they need. Here's why we make this heretical statement. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Learn 6 key best practices for successfully implementing UC. Discover which strategic design and other considerations play critical parts in achieving your ROI objectives. Learn how to develop an implementation strategy that reflects the needs of your organization. Read now. "Nothing new with iPad 2?" What's new is...the iPad. One recurring theme in initial reactions to iPad 2 is that the new tablet is "incremental," doesn't have any surprises, and "failed" to achieve a big hardware breakthrough. In general, that theme misses the point. Which is: the iPad itself represents The Surprise and today, iPad 2 is no more incremental than iPad 1was when it was first introduced 11 months ago. Read More 2010 - The year of the iPad Steve Jobs last week confidently pronounced 2011 to be the year of the iPad 2. With a slew of competing tablets on the horizon, time will tell how the next-gen iPad will actually fare this year. That said, there's no denying that 2010 was, in fact, the year of the iPad. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco & Citrix Regain Control of the Desktop Learn how one IT organization is realizing the benefits of Desktop Virtualization and find out what they did to ensure a successful deployment of VMware View 4.5. Learn More Is Open Stack Taking Over the Cloud? When Open Stack was first announced several months ago many people thought that it could be a major player in the cloud market. Others thought that it could be just another wannabe standard that would fade under all of the cloud hype. With Rackspace, NASA and others behind it, Open Stack had the pedigree to be a game changer. Read More Absolutely brilliant: Windows upgrades through the years Here's a brilliant video from Chain of Fools showing an upgrade installation of every version of Windows since 1.0 (with the exception of ME, since ME couldn't be upgraded to Windows 2000). Read More So I ask Groupon customer service for help ... Like most people, I tend to talk about personal experiences with customer service departments only when those experiences suck. So let's break that habit and toss a public thank-you Groupon's way. Read More Do I have to buy Android? I am currently an iPhone user and have been thinking about switching to an Android phone as the technology looks very interesting and as a supporter of Open Source, I would like to put my money where my "mouth" is. Read More
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