Carolyn Duffy Marsan

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Carriers snag Networx deals
Jun. 26, 2008
Carriers in the massive federal Networx deal are beginning to report a steady stream of contract awards.

Feds: We are ready for IPv6 D-Day
Jun. 26, 2008
On Monday, U.S. federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a ...

Extreme weather and business continuity
Jun. 24, 2008
Does climate change have any relevance for information assurance and business continuity? My friend and colleague John Orlando, program director of the Master of Science in Business Continuity Management (MSBC) program ...

UltraDNS adds load balancing service
Jun. 18, 2008
NeuStar, through its UltraDNS Services suite of managed DNS services, is offering a load balancing service aimed at e-retailers and other enterprises looking to improve the performance and reliability of their DNS ...

Verizon FiOS tech heading to enterprises
May. 30, 2008
Verizon Business has quietly developed an enterprise version of its popular residential FiOS high-speed Internet service.

Feds encrypt 800,000 laptops; 1.2 million to go
May. 22, 2008
U.S. government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes.

New open source DNS server released
May. 20, 2008
A group of experts has released an open source alternative to the BIND DNS server software that boasts higher performance and better security.

Popular open source spam filter gets boost
May. 19, 2008
SpamAssassin, popular open source spam-filtering software, will have deadlier aim thanks to an add-on tool that is being offered free of charge to small businesses and individuals by MailChannels. Popular open source ...

Clock is ticking on .me domain names
May. 13, 2008
Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro. Clock is ticking on .me ...

Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look
May. 12, 2008
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that ...

AT&T demos disaster preparedness
May. 08, 2008
AT&T was in Chicago recently, demonstrating to hundreds of its corporate customers how it responds to natural disasters.

UPDATE -- Verizon snares $678 million federal network deal
May. 14, 2008
Verizon Business has captured one of the largest federal network deals of 2008: a 10-year contract to provide managed network and security services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that is valued at $678.5 ...

Feds: We are ready for IPv6 D-Day
Jun. 26, 2008
On Monday, U.S. federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded June 30 deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a ...

Carriers snag Networx deals
Jun. 26, 2008
Carriers in the massive federal Networx deal are beginning to report a steady stream of contract awards.

No slowdown for U.S. tech industry
Apr. 25, 2008
Can the U.S. tech industry continue to defy the overall economic downturn?

Data center mushrooming? Why not get rid of it?
Apr. 23, 2008
If your data center processing load doubled this year, could you handle the growth? Booming businesses such as Bazaarvoice are turning to Web hosting companies, including Rackspace, Savvis, AT&T, Terramark and IBM, to ...

How the iPhone is killing the 'Net
Apr. 09, 2008
Is the iPhone killing the 'Net? That's the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.

U.S. carriers quietly developing IPv6 services
Apr. 02, 2008
For 10 years, there has been little North American demand for IPv6, so U.S. carriers haven't introduced IPv6 services. And without commercial IPv6 services available from carriers, U.S. government agencies and ...

Feds: We will meet June IPv6 deadline
Apr. 02, 2008
U.S. federal government officials are confident they will meet a June 30 deadline to support IPv6 on their backbone networks, but they see challenges ahead in transitioning their production networks to this long- ...

The Planet to offer IPv6 hosting services
Mar. 24, 2008
Web hosting vendor The Planet plans to offer in late 2008 commercial transit services that support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

Feds to award flood of telecom deals
Mar. 21, 2008
Networx was billed as the largest telecommunications deal in the world. But until now, the amount of business awarded under Networx has been a mere trickle. Federal telecom vendors expect the trickle to turn into a ...

IPv6 faces trial by fire tonight
Mar. 12, 2008
The Internet engineering community will be eating its own dog food tonight. For one hour, the 1,250 network experts at the IETF meeting will be able to access the Internet only through IPv6. The IETF created IPv6 in the ...

YouTube/Pakistan incident: Could something similar whack your site?
Mar. 10, 2008
In light of Pakistan Telecom/YouTube incident, Internet registry official explains how you can avoid having your web site victimized by such an attack.

10 "Get Smart" phones you can actually get
Jun. 17, 2008

IPv6 will hit like an avalanche, NTT America CTO predicts
Mar. 31, 2008
NTT America is hoping that the saying from the movie "Field of Dreams" is true: If you build it, they will come. As the long-time leader in IPv6 deployment in the United States, NTT America is ready for a flood of U.S. ...