Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Senior Editor, Enterprise Applications

 

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Recent articles by Duffy Marsan

Carriers snag Networx deals
06/26/08
Carriers in the massive federal Networx deal are beginning to report a steady stream of contract awards.

Feds: We are ready for IPv6 D-Day
06/26/08
On Monday, U.S. federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a long-term battle to get their networks ready for the Internet of the future.

Extreme weather and business continuity
06/24/08
Does climate change have any relevance for information assurance and business continuity? My friend and colleague John Orlando, program director of the Master of Science in Business Continuity Management (MSBC) program at Norwich University, thinks so.

UltraDNS adds load balancing service
06/18/08
NeuStar, through its UltraDNS Services suite of managed DNS services, is offering a load balancing service aimed at e-retailers and other enterprises looking to improve the performance and reliability of their DNS resolutions.

Verizon FiOS tech heading to enterprises
05/30/08
Verizon Business has quietly developed an enterprise version of its popular residential FiOS high-speed Internet service.

Feds encrypt 800,000 laptops; 1.2 million to go
05/22/08
U.S. government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes.

New open source DNS server released
05/20/08
A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security.

Popular open source spam filter gets boost
05/19/08
SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small businesses and individuals by MailChannels.

UPDATE -- Verizon snares $678 million federal network deal
05/14/08
Verizon Business has captured one of the largest federal network deals of 2008: a 10-year contract to provide managed network and security services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that is valued at $678.5 million.

Clock is ticking on .me domain names
05/13/08
Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro.

Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look
05/12/08
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that country. Fallows talks about Internet censorship in China in this Q&A.

AT&T demos disaster preparedness
05/08/08
AT&T was in Chicago recently, demonstrating to hundreds of its corporate customers how it responds to natural disasters.

No slowdown for U.S. tech industry
04/25/08
Can the U.S. tech industry continue to defy the overall economic downturn?

Data center mushrooming? Why not get rid of it?
04/23/08
If your data center processing load doubled this year, could you handle the growth? Booming businesses such as Bazaarvoice are turning to Web hosting companies, including Rackspace, Savvis, AT&T, Terramark and IBM, to handle their data center operations.

How the iPhone is killing the 'Net
04/09/08
Is the iPhone killing the 'Net? That’s the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. 

U.S. carriers quietly developing IPv6 services
04/02/08
For 10 years, there has been little North American demand for IPv6, so U.S. carriers haven't introduced IPv6 services. And without commercial IPv6 services available from carriers, U.S. government agencies and businesses can't migrate to the next-generation Internet technology. Now, that's all starting to change.

Feds: We will meet June IPv6 deadline
04/02/08
U.S. federal government officials are confident they will meet a June 30 deadline to support IPv6 on their backbone networks, but they see challenges ahead in transitioning their production networks to this long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

IPv6 will hit like an avalanche, NTT America CTO predicts
03/31/08
NTT America is hoping that the saying from the movie "Field of Dreams" is true: If you build it, they will come. As the long-time leader in IPv6 deployment in the United States, NTT America is ready for a flood of U.S. government and business customers to upgrade to the next-generation of the Internet's main communications protocol.

The Planet to offer IPv6 hosting services
03/24/08
Web hosting vendor The Planet plans to offer in late 2008 commercial transit services that support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

Feds to award flood of telecom deals
03/21/08
Networx was billed as the largest telecommunications deal in the world. But until now, the amount of business awarded under Networx has been a mere trickle. Federal telecom vendors expect the trickle to turn into a flood this spring and summer.

IPv6 faces trial by fire tonight
03/12/08
The Internet engineering community will be eating its own dog food tonight. For one hour, the 1,250 network experts at the IETF meeting will be able to access the Internet only through IPv6. The IETF created IPv6 in the mid-1990s, but this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol has not yet been widely deployed - even by the technology's biggest proponents here. Network World talked with IETF Chair Russ Housley about the group's IPv6 experiment, why the transition to IPv6 is taking so long, and whether the IETF leadership is starting to panic about IPv4 addresses running out.

YouTube/Pakistan incident: Could something similar whack your site?
03/10/08
In light of Pakistan Telecom/YouTube incident, Internet registry official explains how you can avoid having your web site victimized by such an attack.

IETF, ITU form first-of-kind group to resolve MPLS spat
02/28/08
The Internet's leading standards bodies have joined forces to clarify a set of next-generation network transport specifications that critics warned could cause massive interoperability problems for service providers.

Will there be an IP address black market?
02/14/08
The issue of whether companies, government agencies and ISPs should be allowed to buy and sell excess IPv4 addresses is a sticky one, as outlined in our story about a new proposal by Internet policymakers.

Could IP address plan mean another IPv6 delay?
02/13/08
Internet policymakers are considering sweeping changes to the way they distribute IP addresses that could allow network operators to make money by transferring unused blocks of IPv4 address space to others in need. One result could be lessened incentive to move to IPv6 any time soon.

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