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Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Senior Editor, Enterprise Applications

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Recent articles by Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Will Smart Grid power IPv6?

October 29, 2009

Could Smart Grid, the Obama Administration's effort to modernize the nation's electric grid, be the killer app for IPv6?

Q&A: Why IP is the right choice for Smart Grid

October 29, 2009

The biggest network upgrade in the United States today is Smart Grid, a multibillion dollar modernization of the electricity grid that involves supporting real-time, two-way digital communications between electric utilities and their increasingly energy-conscious customers.

IT pay cuts: Are you next?

October 21, 2009

As more companies enforce across-the-board pay cuts and unpaid furloughs, a rising tide of IT professionals is seeing its annual compensation decline and must decide whether to switch employers as a result.

Next-generation Internet defies recession

October 19, 2009

U.S. ISPs are requesting more IPv6 addresses and fewer IPv4 addresses than ever before -- a sign that carriers are investing in the future amidst one of the deepest recessions in modern history.

Secure telework without a VPN

October 19, 2009

Toronto brokerage firm Octagon Capital ended up choosing an unusual hardware-and-cloud service from Route1 to secure its telework environment.

What¿s behind Web browser choices

October 13, 2009

Despite fierce loyalty among Firefox and Chrome users, Microsoft¿s Internet Explorer is not in any danger of losing its majority market share, thanks to one group: enterprise companies.

Pentagon backs off cloud availability claims

October 08, 2009

Days after claiming 99.999% availability for its new cloud computing service, a U.S. Defense Department spokesman says he misspoke and meant to say the agency is achieving 99.99% availability instead.

Boise State ditches Cisco DNS

October 07, 2009

Boise State University, the largest university in Idaho, has replaced its aging Cisco Network Registrar software with appliances from BlueCat Networks that it says are easier to manage and less expensive to operate for Domain Name System and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol services.

Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's

October 05, 2009

The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers such as Google.

Google Wave invite-only preview begins

September 29, 2009

Google on Wednesday will send out more than 100,000 invitations to developers to preview Google Wave, a new communications and collaboration tool that Google plans to release next year.