NetFlash: Survey: Little U.S. interest in next-generation Internet

Opinion
May 26, 20053 mins

* Survey: Little U.S. interest in next-generation Internet * The New Data Center: business continuity * HP Integrity servers to get virtualization boost * Cisco targets IP phone flaw * The 2005 Enterprise All-Star Awards * Today on Layer 8

Juniper released a survey this week that shows most IT decision makers in this country couldn’t care less about IPv6. Experts say such indifference will hurt us as the problems that IPv6 was designed to address start staring us in the face. They even raise the specter of China becoming a new focal point of the Internet because it is embracing IPv6, with the U.S. being left behind. Should the U.S. government act? Survey: Little U.S. interest in next-generation Internet http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/052405-ipv6-survey.html?net

Juniper released a survey this week that shows most IT decision makers in this country couldn’t care less about IPv6. Experts say such indifference will hurt us as the problems that IPv6 was designed to address start staring us in the face. They even raise the specter of China becoming a new focal point of the Internet because it is embracing IPv6, with the U.S. being left behind. Should the U.S. government act?

Survey: Little U.S. interest in next-generation Internet

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/052405-ipv6-survey.html?net

The New Data Center: business continuity

In this third part of our six-part series on emerging data center technologies, we look at the latest thinking on business continuity. How can server virtualization and clustering help keep businesses running? How can MPLS help? Plus, we have the results of a recent survey of readers on data center technologies, the winner of a New Data Center Award for grid use and more.

http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2005/ndc3/052305ndcbcintro.html?net

HP Integrity servers to get virtualization boost

HP is putting the finishing touches on a new release of its Unix operating system that will deliver a long-awaited virtualization capability to the company’s Integrity line of servers. The update will be available by the beginning of July as a patch release to the company’s HP-UX 11iv2 operating system.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/052505-hp-integrity.html?net

Cisco targets IP phone flaw

Cisco Tuesday reacted to a warning from the U.K.’s National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre that it had discovered a software flaw capable of causing the company’s IP telephones to crash.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/052505-cisco-flaw.html?net

The 2005 Enterprise All-Star Awards

Network World’s Enterprise All-Star Awards program will honor user organizations that demonstrate exceptional use of network technology to further business objectives. Winners of the Enterprise All-Star Awards serve as role models for their industries, showcasing how technology can reduce spending, improve profits, grow the business or otherwise drastically impact operations. Network World will honor dozens of user organizations from a wide variety of industries, based on a technology category. Enter today:

http://www.networkworld.com/survey/easform.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where we wonder if the long weekend is here yet:

Once you go Mac you never go back; an update on U2, Java and text messaging; teen hackers claim it’s all in good fun; and AOL releases e-mail addiction survey; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net