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How feds are dropping the ball on IPv6
U.S. federal agencies have six months to meet a deadline to support IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet’s main communications
protocol known as IPv4. But most agencies are not grabbing hold of the new technology and running with it, industry observers
say.
Cisco opening up IOS
Cisco plans on opening up its venerable IOS routing software to third-party developers, company officials at this week's C-Scape
conference said.
Taming the virtual beast: Part II
In this second of three test pieces focusing on virtual machine management, Network World Lab Alliance member Tom Henderson
reviews three commercial products and one open source project that all take a different route to controlling a piece of the
overall problem of managing large scale virtual machine deployments.
Properly handling end-of-life IT assets
With major OEMs arguing about who recycles the most electronics and with e-waste legislation on the rise across the world,
green computing is a hot topic. However, many companies are still in the dark about how to properly get rid of old IT equipment
in an environmentally friendly way that also ensures the secure destruction of sensitive data.
Cisco’s virtualization a multiyear investment
Customers should count on spending three years to completely implement Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 architecture, company officials
said this week at the C-Scape 2007 conference.
Two wireless LANs better than one, Carnegie Mellon says
Instead of one WLAN vendor, Carnegie Mellon University chose two for its campus-wide 802.11n wireless network.
Energy companies face costly upgrades to secure electric grid
The nation’s electric power grid needs better computer security for its industrial control systems to prevent attackers, sabotage
or just simple unauthorized use, according to the Washington-based agency the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Many in
the energy industry expect FERC to issue new security rules this month, but will demands such as patching and antivirus simply
be too much for the nation’s existing electric-power control systems?
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