Why the Internet needs IPv6

	Rehearsals over, IPv6 goes prime time June 6 | Competition, games can bring about enterprise app advances
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	Why the Internet needs IPv6 Explosive growth of Internet users, devices, apps has created demand for more IP addresses. A few skeptics question the need for IPv6, but most Internet policymakers and network technology experts assert that the shift to IPv6 is inevitable, and the time to move is now. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Infosim German Engineered Automated Config & Fault Management Infosim automated configuration and fault management for large IT environments. Remove the tedious and error prone manual activities associated with creating device and application dependencies and replace them with automation from Infosim. Incredible time and cost savings come from automating device backups, provisioning and root cause analysis. View our short 15 minute recorded webinar here and also receive our "Infosim Config & Fault Management Cheat Sheet". Also visit us at Cisco Live in San Diego next week, Booth # 2323 In this Issue Rehearsals over, IPv6 goes prime time June 6 Competition, games can bring about enterprise app advances Cisco competitor extends data center fabric line Tech Debate: Dictate the mobile device or let the user decide? IPv6 transition: Observations from a name server perspective Cisco upgrades mobile carrier switches with an eye on escalating traffic Nonexistent Apple iPad Mini biggest threat to iPad's tablet dominance Facebook hires noted iOS jailbreaker Chpwn 'Body Area Networks' should free hospital bandwidth, untether patients Researchers reveal how Flame fakes Windows Update WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Cloud-Scale Networks Using Open Fabric Architectures Virtualization and cloud are driving new requirements for data center network performance, VM support, automation and simplified orchestration. This paper outlines Extreme Networks® open fabric approach to high speed, low latency networks for modern data centers. Learn more. Rehearsals over, IPv6 goes prime time June 6 IPv6 will go fully live on June 6. That's the date when 50-plus access networks and more than 2,500 websites -- including Google, YouTube, Facebook and Yahoo -- will turn on support for the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol and leave it on for good. Read More Competition, games can bring about enterprise app advances Back in 2006, Jim Lavoie, president of Rite Solutions, a Defense Department software contractor, wanted his employees to play a more active role in innovating new ideas. But he knew a top-down approach from management ordering such behavior wouldn't work. "Organizations that are smart enough to ask employees for ideas know that the best approach is to do it in a fun way," he says. "If it's not fun, it's work; and if it's work, it sucks." Read More Cisco competitor extends data center fabric line Xsigo Systems this week enhanced its data center fabric portfolio with support for more hypervisors and next-generation servers based on Intel's "Romley" design. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Rethink Your Branch Network Strategy In today's virtual enterprise, access to corporate resources must be secure, reliable, and manageable, with consistently enforced policy while simultaneously allowing access from anywhere at any time. This is why access network strategies have become critical to business growth. View Now Tech Debate: Dictate the mobile device or let the user decide? The list of benefits for the Bring Your Own Device movement is long, but so is the list of associated risks. Is the time right to connect employee gadgets to the company network, or should we be more circumspect? Read More IPv6 transition: Observations from a name server perspective As the operator of some of the core Internet name servers, including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to IPv6 and progress to date. Read More Cisco upgrades mobile carrier switches with an eye on escalating traffic Cisco Systems wants to make it easier for mobile operators to scale up the wired networks that their wireless systems feed into, so it's introducing a mobile aggregation switch with 10 times the capacity of its current product. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAP Collaborate and Connect with Business Partners for Commerce Take a look at how companies are connecting with their entire universe of business partners regardless of data standards, just once, and without ongoing maintenance – thanks to SAP Information Interchange. Why invest in point-to-point connections that will cost more and prevent on-boarding of smaller suppliers? Learn More Nonexistent Apple iPad Mini biggest threat to iPad's tablet dominance Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet, made a brief run at Apple and its iPad late last year, but the latest ChangeWave survey results show that Apple survived that challenge and continues to dominate the tablet market. Read More Facebook hires noted iOS jailbreaker Chpwn Nothing gets the hacker community buzzing more than one of its own going corporate, and the latest to stir things up is new Facebook intern Grant Paul, whose iOS jailbreaking exploits as "Chpwn" have given iPad, iPhone and iPod users more freedom. Read More 'Body Area Networks' should free hospital bandwidth, untether patients Hospitals, whose Wi-Fi networks are clogged with clinician and patient data traffic, are getting some much-needed bandwidth relief with the FCC's approval of radio bandwidth spectrum for wireless medical monitoring devices. Read More Researchers reveal how Flame fakes Windows Update Security researchers today published detailed information about how the Flame cyber-espionage malware spreads through a network by exploiting Microsoft's Windows Update mechanism. Read More
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