Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Monday that its application system for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has reopened, more than a month after it was brought down because of a software glitch.
Registered applicants can now log in, review and submit their applications on the TLD Application System (TAS) which will stay open until 23:59 GMT on May 30, ICANN chief operating officer Akram Atallah said in a statement. Two-hour maintenance windows have been scheduled on three days, he added.
The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.
Firewalls need to go away. I'm just saying what we all already know. Firewalls have always been problematic, and today there is almost no reason to have one.
Computer firewalls have been with us since the 1980s. Even early on it was pretty clear that they didn't really work; if they did, we would have defeated malicious hackers and malware a long time ago. But at least back in the day there was a decent reason to need them.
HP has announced the t410 All-In-One Smart Zero Client, a thin client PC that only consumes 13 watts and can be run using Power over Ethernet.
Announced at HP's Global Influencer Forum in Shanghai among a slew of Ultrabooks, "Sleekbooks," workstations, and printers, the t410 All-In-One Smart Zero was overshadowed by more anticipated products.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined several agency initiatives to open up more spectrum for mobile services, as well as improve spectrum efficiency, in a keynote address at CTIA Wireless today.
Virtualization continues to make huge inroads, thanks to the obvious flexibility and reliability benefits. And getting the most out of virtualization almost always requires some kind of shared storage. Otherwise, features such as live virtual machine migration and automated virtualization host failure recovery simply aren't available.
It's been a lively few weeks here in Cringeville, as my inbox will attest.
First, before anyone else sends me another email on this: Yes, I messed up in my second post on Google's Wi-Fi lies ("Google's Wi-Fi spygate troubles have only just begun"). In that screed I said "a number of the regulars here in Cringeville believe people who leave their Wi-Fi networks secured deserve whatever they get."
Relatively few organizations are making good use of gobs of log data they collect for purposes such as identifying attackers, according to a survey of 600-plus IT professionals by security outfit SANS.
Google probably thought it was tossing water on that smoldering Wi-Fi spying controversy by releasing the full version of that FCC report a few days ago -- turns out it was gasoline instead. Now Google is looking at a raging inferno that could engulf the company.
Many IT projects start with an optimistic air, a feeling that no matter what's occurred in the past, this one will be different. It'll be done right the first time, no shortcuts will be taken, enough time will be available for proper planning and execution, and the result will be a shining example of IT done right.
Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security researcher who erroneously thought that the company had patched the flaw.
Oracle's April 2012 Critical Patch Update (CPU) advisory, published on April 17, credited security researcher Joxean Koret for a vulnerability he reported through cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners.
IT engineers are studying what may be an easier way to fix a long-existing weakness in the Internet's routing system that has the potential to cause major service outages and allow hackers to spy on data.
The problem involves the routers used by every organization and company that owns a block of IP addresses. Those routers communicate constantly with other routers, updating their internal information -- often upwards of 400,000 entries -- on the best way to reach other networks using a protocol called Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
All the major professional and college sports have one. Rock and roll has one. Heck, even cowboys, robots, and burlesque performers have one (er, separately, not with each other). I'm talking of course about a hall of fame.
Dell will flesh out its new virtual networking strategy at Interop next month when it shows off a 40-Gigabit Ethernet switch for its PowerEdge M1000e blade system announced Tuesday, extends its management software and shows its equipment working with the OpenFlow standard for SDN (software-defined networking).
Yikes! When I detailed the many ways that vendors were trying to scare IT into wasting time and money on dubious BYOD "solutions" or treating all users as if they were (expensive) edge cases, I expected some pushback. And I got some, as well as some "thanks for calling these carpetbagggers" responses. But what surprised me was where the pushback was focused: on TEM (telecom expense management), which is really a purchasing issue, not an IT one.
For the past eight months or so, I've been running a de facto virtualization test in the lab. I took a variety of lab boxes and internal servers, virtualized them on VMware vSphere 4.1, and ran them all on two physical servers. It may not seem impressive, but it indicates what's possible for small to medium-size corporate computing. And for those looking to consolidate, it's highly relevant.
Because virtualization offers so much cost savings and agility, many organizations are going the whole hog and virtualizing mission-critical systems they wouldn't have dreamed of virtualizing a little while ago. Who would have thought, for example, that we'd see enterprises deploy Oracle virtually rather than on physical hardware?
The era of cloud hyper-giants, providers so big and so critical to the delivery of information and commerce, is clearly here. But unlike an electric utility, which can give an exact count of customers and power consumed, understanding the true size of a cloud provider hasn't been as easy.
But DeepField Networks, a new cloud intelligence company operating in semi-stealth mode, posted some eye-popping findings Wednesday about the breadth of Internet activity Amazon.com is now responsible for.
As part of their effort to speed delivery of Web pages, Google engineers have released a module for the Apache Web server software that augments the basic protocols used for carrying Web traffic across the Internet.
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