IPv6 a major catalyst for billions of dollars worth of deals? The Intel announcement of their McAfee purchase for 7.7 billion seems to indicate as much when Dave DeWalt , McAfee CEO is quoted as saying during a conference call; "If we look at the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, we're seeing an explosion of billions of devices and they all need to be secured." Then he continues by saying "The embedded market is a very specific and high-opportunity market for us." His estimate is that the number of connected devices will grow from one billion to 50 billion within 10 years.
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Traditional host discovery via network scanning won't work with IPv6, but alternative methods are available.
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Next-generation IP protocol comes with more security as well as some potential flaws of its own.
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Sydney might have hosted the 'best ever' Olympic Games back in 2000, but Microsoft Tech.Ed 2010 held last week on the Gold Coast was the best ever as far as the event's technology manager Jorke Odolphi is concerned.
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Perhaps the biggest challenge of the transition to IPv6 -- the consumer broadband market -- still lies ahead of most service providers, and they need to get moving, according to Cisco Systems Inc.
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Over two days, Cisco Systems bolstered its smart grid efforts by partnering with Itron and buying Arch Networks.
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By combining the more than 6,300 miles of fiber infrastructure of the former Frontier and newly purchased Verizon telecommunications properties, Frontier Communications has created a robust fiber optic middle-mile infrastructure to bring high bandwidth or high speed/broadband services to the state of West Virginia.
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Communications trends are exciting to watch and if you are a player in this field, a failure to anticipate the next wave could leave you out in the cold.
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While VMware touted its new vCloud Director this week, enterprise IT pros said they have a more down-to-earth goal in mind: virtualizing tier 1 applications such as Oracle and SQL Server databases and Exchange Server email.
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With the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses expected to be exhausted as early next year, now is the time for businesses and government agencies across the globe to prepare for a smooth transition to the next-generation Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
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