IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day

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	IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day A surge of IPv6-based Web traffic began flowing over the Internet last night when World IPv6 Day began, according to data gathered by Arbor Networks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Polycom Win a 360º unified conference station It's a chance to win the Polycom® CX5000, featuring a 360 degree panoramic view. Easily add group video collaboration to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Bring a whole new perspective to your meetings. Enter the sweepstakes today! In this Issue Panic time quiz: How prepared are you for IPv6? Startup targets flash memory latency Turn IT pros into 'Compassionate Geeks' The lighter side of World IPv6 Day As iPad sales boom, Gartner downgrades PC forecast Daily innovation smackdown: Scott McNealy vs. Larry Ellison VMware CEO: What we plan for the post-PC era New Cisco edge routers optimized for IPv6 traffic Gold medals, knighthood and $1M cash prizes: Being a tech pioneer is a real honor HP: Oracle is legally bound to reverse Itanium decision WHITE PAPER: Avaya Avaya Virtual Services Platform 9000 A high performance modular routing switch for core deployments. Core network infrastructure needs to be able to handle increased load without packet loss, while providing quick recovery times in case of a component failure. Learn More Panic time quiz: How prepared are you for IPv6? With IPv4 addresses projected to dry up this year, it's inevitable that IPv6 adoption will accelerate. Here are a few questions that can help determine how much or how little you know about IPv6 and whether you ought to spend more time studying it. Keep track of how many right you get and find out your ranking at the end. Read More Startup targets flash memory latency VeloBit makes SSD more viable without making you rip out existing storage systems and applications. Read More Turn IT pros into 'Compassionate Geeks' In the new book, "The Compassionate Geek: Mastering Customer Service for I.T. Professionals," veteran IT trainer Don R. Crawley lifts a veil on a corner of the enterprise that has some of the most dysfunctional interactions between users and IT: the support desk. Along with co-author Paul R. Senness, Crawley wants to help IT departments raise their stature and reputation within the organization by giving techies some basic training in emotional intelligence and listening skills. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Video Collaboration: Lights, Camera, User Adoption Video deployment has been slow. Today, barriers are dissolving. Price points are dropping. CIOs are more engaged in driving the business forward with process and technology. Learn More The lighter side of World IPv6 Day The Network World homepage has all the serious coverage of World IPv6 Day that anyone could possibly want. So let's turn to Twitter and YouTube for the more elusive IPv6 chuckles. Read More As iPad sales boom, Gartner downgrades PC forecast Apple's iPad and other tablets are causing consumers to delay laptop purchases, so PC shipments will not grow as fast as expected, Gartner said. Read More Daily innovation smackdown: Scott McNealy vs. Larry Ellison This is one of two really intriguing matchups in the second round (the other we will get to tomorrow). Scott McNealy goes along his way as the head of Sun for many years. Pretty much on top of the world for his niche market until one day Oracle and Larry Ellison swoop in and buy Sun. At that point McNealy's life changed, he became a small fish in a big pond. It didn't take long for Ellison's persona to overshadow McNealy, leading to him leaving the joined company. Will Ellison continue his reign here or will McNealy extract some bit of vengeance? Vote now! Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Independent Lab Comparative Review MierConsulting engineers conducted an hands-on, comparative review of three leading contact center packages, focusing on these products' multimedia, mixed voice and text-based contacts - capabilities. Read Now VMware CEO: What we plan for the post-PC era Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, sees virtualization as one piece of the platform VMware intends to offer a mobile, cloud-enabled world Read More New Cisco edge routers optimized for IPv6 traffic Cisco this week rolled out two routers designed to allow service providers to migrate to IPv6 and more capably support video, mobility and cloud offerings. Read More Gold medals, knighthood and $1M cash prizes: Being a tech pioneer is a real honor The story goes that when computer scientist Alan Kay began walking out of a banquet room in 2004 with the A.M. Turing Award he had just been given for his breakthrough work on object-oriented programming, he was stopped by someone who thought he was absconding with a table ornament instead of his "Nobel Prize in Computing." Read More HP: Oracle is legally bound to reverse Itanium decision Oracle's decision in March to stop developing software for Intel's Itanium chips is in violation of "legally-binding commitments" Oracle has made to Hewlett-Packard and the companies' approximately 40,000 shared customers, HP said Wednesday. Read More
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