Facebook's innovative new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">data center</a> design -- believed to be one of the world's most energy-efficient facilities of its kind -- will have a significant influence on corporate data center build-outs over the next several years, experts say.
VeriSign has added an extra layer of security to the Internet's .com domain, but e-retailers, banks and other Web site operators will need to upgrade their DNS hardware, software or services to take advantage of .com's new cryptographic features.
With more than 47 million domain names under management, GoDaddy has a huge DNS infrastructure that it has upgraded to support the emerging Internet <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> standard known as DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions.
Brocade Networks announced last week that it provides the routers and switches that underpin the network backbone operated by Hurricane Electric, a leader in next-generation Internet services using the emerging <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a> standard.
Managed DNS service provider <a href="http://www.ultradns.com/">UltraDNS</a> is touting a new offering that it says will protect Web sites against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks akin to the WikiLeaks-related protests that knocked the Visa and MasterCard Web sites offline in December.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expects to save 40% over the next five years by switching its financial management application to a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a> vendor -- a sign of the massive savings to come from the U.S. federal government's shift to the software-as-a-service model.
For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the 'Net's current addressing scheme -- known as IPv4 -- to handle the network-of-network's explosive growth. Yet many U.S. CIOs and CTOs continue to harbor misinformation that they use to justify why they are not adopting the next-generation IPv6 standard.
Incidents of cheating on IT certifications are on the rise, a trend that experts say is an outward sign of the desperation felt by out-of-work and under-employed IT professionals.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable have joined the throng of network vendors that are participating in World <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a> Day, a 24-hour trial of the next-generation Internet protocol scheduled for June 8.
The U.S. federal government's ongoing effort to improve the security on its Web sites may get a boost now that Verisign has taken over operation of the <a href="https://www.dotgov.gov/portal/web/dotgov">.gov registry</a>.
For IT professionals and network industry vendors alike, the events of last week represent a game changer regarding IPv6, which was developed in 1998 but has scarcely been deployed.
Internet policymakers officially handed out the last five blocks of IPv4 address space to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) at a ceremony held in Miami Thursday morning.
Juniper Networks is accelerating its plan to support IPv6 on its public-facing website and Web services, following criticism that the router maker was lagging rivals including Cisco Systems and Brocade Networks in this critical area.
Comcast is the first cable operator in the United States to provide its cable modem customers with a production-quality service that supports the next-generation Internet Protocol known as IPv6.
The Internet has run out of IPv4 address space.