World IPv6 Day Results: New Internet Protocol Proves It's Ready

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	World IPv6 Day Results: The New IP Protocol Proves It's Ready Today was a significant day in the development of IPv6. Today is IPv6's Bar Mitzvah, Baha'i, Shinbyu ceremony, Genpuku ceremony and Quinceañera all rolled into one. It was a day where IPv6 could prove to the world that it was ready for duty as the Internet Protocol successor to IPv4. Those are pretty big shoes to fill and IPv6 has had some stumbles in the past decade. This article covers what... Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Mobility KnowledgeVault The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault provide expert guidance, peer advice, survey results and best practices to help you protect your mobile infrastructure. From determining a policy for employee-owned devices and data encryption to supporting the six major mobile operating systems, securing mobile devices and data is a top priority. View now In this Issue The 7 worst tech merger ideas ever Microsoft loses i4i Supreme Court patent case Warning: Urgent Microsoft update may be Firefox malware Federal telework deadline highlights progress, lingering roadblocks Reports: Citigroup breached, customer credit-card info stolen IPv6 transition framework for the enterprise Follow Network World on Twitter Epic innovation smackdown: Steve Jobs vs. Steve Wozniack IBM building security into cloud fabric Scenes from an IPv6 Day Barbecue Xen Hypervisor Goes Mainstream WHITE PAPER: Netezza, an IBM Company The Netezza Data Appliance Architecture Success in any enterprise depends on having the best available information in time to make sound decisions. Read now The 7 worst tech merger ideas ever These unlucky seven mergers – involving everyone from Apple to Microsoft to Google -- will hopefully never see the light of day Read More Microsoft loses i4i Supreme Court patent case Microsoft didn't just lose its Supreme Court appeal to overturn its long-running i4i patent infringement case, it was trounced. The Justices voted unanimously in favor of i4i, once again kicking court-based software patent reform in the gut. And yet, there is still a glimmer of hope that the ruling will make it easier to invalidate bad patents. Read More Warning: Urgent Microsoft update may be Firefox malware A phony anti-virus scam is presenting itself as a near-perfect Microsoft update popup with one notable exception - it appears only on machines using Firefox browsers. Read More 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 Federal telework deadline highlights progress, lingering roadblocks A key deadline passed this week for federal agencies that are required by law to revamp their telework policies and notify all employees whether they are eligible to work from home. Read More Reports: Citigroup breached, customer credit-card info stolen Citigroup has acknowledged that hackers broke into its network and stole credit-card information related to tens of thousands of customers in North America, according to several reports. Read More IPv6 transition framework for the enterprise If all the excitement about IPv6 has finally convinced you to take a serious look at what's involved in the transition, you'll want to start with this framework. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Discover the Mishaps of Digital Channels Digital has been widely embraced by consumers and by many parts of the enterprise. But the adoption of digital channels - Web sites, mobile apps, online sales and customer service, and other smart touches - has often occurred in a piecemeal way. Read More Follow Network World on Twitter Stay on top of key network developments by following Network World's main Twitter account. Read More Epic innovation smackdown: Steve Jobs vs. Steve Wozniack Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack founded Apple in 1976. Now they find themselves in Network World's Thunderdome. Vote now! Read More IBM building security into cloud fabric IBM executives said this week that the company is looking to many of its existing tools, from the Tivoli management system to Cognos business intelligence software, to secure private and IBM-hosted hybrid clouds as customers migrate to these new computing setups. Read More Scenes from an IPv6 Day Barbecue Sure, there was some serious business during yesterday's Read More Xen Hypervisor Goes Mainstream Last week, the Xen.org community announced a significant milestone in the world of Linux virtualization with the news that open source Xen code for Dom0 was accepted into the Linux mainline kernel. The complete announcement is at http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/06/02/xen-celebrates-full-dom0-and-domu-support-in-linux-3-0/. Read More
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