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Juniper, Microsoft to be among RSA Conference newsmakers
Juniper, IBM and Verizon will be among the big-name companies airing new products and services in San Francisco next week
at the RSA Conference, the annual security industry event that is expected to draw 17,000 attendees and 350 exhibitors.
Feds: We will meet June IPv6 deadline
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.
Are CIOs losing their mojo?
Taken together, these trends don't seem to bode well for today's CIOs and their influence on the business side of the house.
But what's the reality? When CEOs and company presidents and boards of directors think of their CIO, do they think innovation?
Do they think competitive advantage? Or do they think of someone who just keeps the IT lights on?
UTM firewall review: SonicWall smashes speed records
Last month, SonicWall rolled out its next-generation UTM firewall appliance geared straight for the enterprise. In our exclusive
test of the Network Security Appliance E7500, results show that SonicWall has, indeed, crashed through the speed barrier.
Wireless carriers crow about openness
At the CTIA Wireless conference: from keynote speeches to demonstrations to press luncheons, executives from major wireless
carriers touted the openness of their networks.
Wireless as the primary net? Not until management matures
Wireless LAN management tools have evolved to provide central configuration, administration and monitoring capabilities, but
the technology still needs more work in terms of managing multi-vendor gear and various client devices as end users request
better troubleshooting tools to speed diagnosis of performance and connectivity problems.
OOXML approved, but some say standards process needs review
Now that the ISO has standardized Office Open XML some are asking if the standards process itself is next in line for a thorough
evaluation.
Microsoft takes big step in managing enterprise handhelds
Microsoft’s just-released Mobile Device Manager and the newest version of Windows Mobile give enterprises tighter security
and greater control over proliferating handhelds.
U.S. carriers quietly developing IPv6 services
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.
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