AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable are just a few of the several internet service providers committing to the IPv6 switch deadline of June 6. IPv6 is a replacement for IPv4, the Internet’s main communications protocol which is running out of address space. Seeing as how IPv6 is not back[...]
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Zero Clients Improve Children’s Hospital in Seattle
2,600 zero client devices have been installed by Seattle Children’s Hospital at four of their locations. Several of them are connected with a wireless LAN that helps doctors and nurses access patient data at the bedside within seconds. It is expected that this latest move will save $400,000 an[...]
December 9th, 2011 - 5:50 pm § in Hardware, Industry News
Hard Drive Shortage to Continue into 2013
The hard drive shortage causing the Thailand flooding is expected to last into 2013. This information came from IDC research analyst John Rydning: “I think the most painful period will occur now through February of next year. We expect the situation will improve, but it won’t feel as i[...]
Denial-of-Service Vulnerability Patched in BIND DNS servers
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) issued a patch for a vulnerability that crashed BIND DNS resolvers worldwide. This affected several organizations including dozens of universities across the United States. The crashes were discovered by ISC to be the result of an inconsistent record being ca[...]
Windows 8 on a USB drive
IT administrators will soon be able to provide companies with a Windows environment on a USB thumb drive. As a new feature of Windows 8, Microsoft’s ‘Windows to Go’ will be exposed further at the BUILD conference on Thursday. The upcoming session featured the following summary: &#[...]
U.S. Closing Federal Data Centers
At least 800 of 2000 government data centers will be shutdown over the next four years. This move from the federal government was made to trim billions from the budget, but also to cutdown on wasted data storage. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra stated that average storage utilization of these facilities wa[...]
