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The Internet Is Out of Addresses, But Don't Panic

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:00:00 PST

February 28, 2011 By Stephen Wildstrom You would have thought 4,294,967,295 internet addresses was plenty. But less than 30 years after the Internet Protocol was adopted and barely 15 years after the internet went mainstream, the pool of numerical addresses that allow PCs, servers, and an ever-growing flood of mobile devices to find each other on the net has been all but ...

Cloud Providers Combine to Boost Asian Market

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:00:00 PST

February 21, 2011 By Bill Bulkeley Some of the biggest players in technology have come together to form a group that aims to boost the use of cloud architectures in Asia, where adoption lags behind the U.S. and Europe. The effort provides a window on some of the continuing issues affecting the evolution of cloud computing. And it shows some surprising barriers. Among them: ...

Cisco Issues PCI Compliance Pulse Survey Findings – Results Reveal Changing Views on Data Security Compliance

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:00:00 PST

SAN JOSE, Jan. 12, 2011 – In the wake of massive data breaches of payment card information in the past few years, the topic of PCI compliance and its adoption has been top of mind in any organization concerned about suffering a similar fate. Today, Cisco unveiled the results of a survey conducted by InsightExpress of 500 information technology decision-makers to uncover and ...

Cisco Putting Internet of Things to Work

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PST

September 27, 2010 By Charles Waltner While Cisco Systems is actively guiding development of networking standards for the Internet of Things, it is also exploring methods for addressing the myriad of other issues facing this new era for the world's communications network. Most notably, Cisco is involved in several initiatives that pioneer ways of melding the Internet with our physical ...

Cisco Clearing Path to the "Internet of Things"

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:00:00 PST

September 27, 2010 By Charles Waltner The Internet of Things is a tantalizingly ambitious concept for the next iteration of the Information Age in which almost any object or environmental condition can be monitored, possibly controlled and tied into the digital universe. By some estimates, the Internet of Things will be able to connect at least as many objects as there are atoms on the ...