You’ve acquired a nice new IPv6 address block, and now you need to come up with an IPv6 address allocation design for your network. If there is one bit of advice I can offer you as you begin your IPv6 address design, it’s this: Abandon almost everything you’ve learned about IPv4 address design. Throw it right out the window.
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IPv6 Design: Forget The IPv4 Rules
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Google+, Day 28: My Five Biggest Google+ Complaints
30 Days With Google+: Day 28
My 30 Days With Google+ journey is coming to an end. That means it’s time to review my experience over the past month and sum things up. Overall, I will say that Google+ has grown on me, and that I have developed more appreciation for Google’s social network as a result of this experience. But, there are still some aspects of Google+ I don’t care for, so here are my five biggest complaints about Google+.
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GlobalSign Puts Holds On New Certificates Pending Security Investigation
After boasts by the Comodo hacker that he’d compromised GlobalSign, the certificate authority (CA) on Tuesday announced that it would temporarily cease issuing any new certificates.
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VMware: Driving IT Innovation and Disruption
The big picture that VMware continues to emphasize is that a trio of disruptive trends is simultaneously transforming IT: infrastructure renewal, applications development and end-user computing. Understanding these trends is necessary not only to comprehend what new products and services can do today, but also to get a better perspective of what is likely to happen in the future.
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IBM SONAS On Life Support As BlueArc Goes To HDS
You may have heard of an oddly named storage product from IBM called SONAS. It stands for Scale-Out NAS. I’m concerned that, like with so many other monolithic products, SONAS may be out of gas – as HDS fills up its tank with higher octane from BlueArc. As always, there’s more to the story of the BlueArc acquisition than meets the eye.
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Certificate Authority Compromises Are Global In Reach
There has already been a lot written about the compromise at DigiNotar, GlobalSign, and Comodo. One day we will look at the summer of 2011 as the time when the PKI collapsed. That’s not hyperbole. The problems with Certificate Authorities and the inherent weakness they present have been known for years. A fact we alluded to as far back as 1997. Browsers accept certificates as trusted in that they have the signing CA certificate in their local browser store. Browsers do not check that a particular CA is authorized to actually issue a particular server certificate. The trust is universal. That is why the attacks on DigiNotar, GlobalSign, and Comodo are so serious and have global impact.
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Skytap Brings Self-Service To Hybrid Clouds
More and more companies are turning to cloud technologies to build private, public and hybrid cloud solutions. However, many are finding that managing those silos of services is becoming an impossibility, surrounded by incompatibilities, complex dashboards and differing standards. Cloud services vendor, Skytap has released a new set of solutions, which brings management simplicity and federation to clouds of all shapes and sizes.
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Drowning in Data: Is Software The Solution?
Enterprises are drowning in data, but just throwing money and resources at bigger, faster and more efficient storage doesn’t seem to be working. According to an IDC study ‘Extracting Value from Chaos’, data is doubling every two years and enterprises will manage 50 times more data and files will grow 75x in the next decade.
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Of Body Armor, Handcuffs, And Fluke Networks’ AirCheck
In the IT media business, you tend to see a lot of press releases. The majority of these are informative but benign, and seldom make you do a double-take. Then there’s “Law Enforcement Uses Fluke Networks’ AirCheck Wi-Fi Tester to Help Combat Child Pornography”. While I approve of the sentiment behind the title, a couple of the points made in the release bother me.
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XXX Domain Registration Begins: Should You Buy One?
ICANN has begun accepting registrations on a limited basis for XXX domains. If you are in the adult entertainment business, or your site is related to adult endeavors, then buying a XXX domain is a no-brainer, but even businesses that offer more “traditional” goods and services may want to consider getting in line for a XXX domain.
Why? That seems like a fair question. The answer is simple: to protect your brand and reputation.
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