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	Google, Facebook, others to IETF: Who's using IPv6? Where are the users? That's what popular websites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook are asking the Internet engineering community when they are questioned about their long-range plans to deploy IPv6. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mimecast Thinking about Migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010? This informative guide details the best practices to follow when migrating from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Exchange 2010 specifically explaining how to prepare the existing infrastructure, what safeguards to employ before beginning, and how to perform the actual migration. Read now In this Issue 'War texting' lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS IEEE sets standard for 'white spaces' networking at up to 22 Mbps How to implement IPv6 in a Windows environment: A guide Universities launch ultra-high-speed broadband initiative IT security's scariest acronym: BYOD, bring your own device Darlene Storm: Alleged LulzSec arrested, but Anonymous #OpPayPal makes eBay bleed $1B stock loss Darragh Delaney: File and database activity monitoring RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Real-time Value of BI Today's top performing organizations have developed a strategy to manage growth in data volume & complexity while exploiting that data to create quicker business insight. Learn how best-in-class companies are delivering broader access to information in a shorter timeframe to facilitate substantial improvement in key business performance metrics. Click to continue 'War texting' lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS Software that lets drivers unlock car doors and even start their vehicles using a mobile phone could let car thieves do the very same things, according to computer security researchers at iSec Partners. Read More IEEE sets standard for 'white spaces' networking at up to 22 Mbps A just-published standard for using the abandoned "white spaces" between TV channels could offer wireless networking at speeds of as much as 22 Mbps over distances as great as 62 miles. Read More How to implement IPv6 in a Windows environment: A guide By now, you've heard that ARIN has (more or less) run out of IPv4 addresses and the time has come for mass migration to IPv6. If you are a Windows shop, the good news is that Microsoft has been preparing for IPv6 for years and almost all of the latest Microsoft wares support it. Some, such as Windows Server 2008 R2, depend heavily on it for certain features. (Insider: registration required) Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerating Cloud Performance with WAN Optimization Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its success or failure is often dependent on WAN optimization. Learn more. Universities launch ultra-high-speed broadband initiative A group of 29 universities will seek ideas on how to improve broadband speeds at their campuses and surrounding communities. Read More IT security's scariest acronym: BYOD, bring your own device The torrent of smartphones and tablets entering companies has created some interesting challenges for security managers. The new devices introduce new operating systems, new development environments and new security risks, but no new control. The scariest acronym in security might well be "BYOD," or "bring your own device." As companies develop security and mobility strategies to deal with these devices, it is worth bearing in mind the lessons learned from managing laptops. But it is also worth applying some of the new lessons from smartphones on the laptops, too! Read More Darlene Storm: Alleged LulzSec arrested, but Anonymous #OpPayPal makes eBay bleed $1B stock loss Alleged LulzSec members arrested as #OpPayPal puts the serious hurt to PayPal parent company eBay which is bleeding money as stocks plummet. People are closing their PayPal accounts in support of Anonymous using legal activism. Accusations fly on Twitter about censoring the operation. Read More Darragh Delaney: File and database activity monitoring When I started my career in network management many years ago, my primary focus with file sharing and database applications was to make sure that they had enough disk space to grow. This basic level of monitoring is still important today. However, due the amount and sensitivity of data on today's networks, this basic monitoring has being extended and is now being referred to as FAM (file activity management) and DAM (database activity management). Read More
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