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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. A growing community of developers and users believe SONiC could change the way many large enterprises, hyperscalers and service providers run their networks.

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Security-as-a-service supplier Alert Logic started with IDS and blossomed from there

Network World

Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Hall to learn more about Alert Logic and the security-as-a-service movement. It’s only as good as the content you feed it and once you reconfigure your network, you have to do it all over again … tuning, configuration, etc. Lets start with a brief background on the company.

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What is IPv6, why is it so important, and why is it adoption taking so long?

Network World

IDG Network address translation (NAT) and IPv6 Adoption of IPv6 has been delayed in part due to network address translation (NAT), which takes private IP addresses and turns them into public IP addresses. Comcast and AT&T have their networks at 70% and 73%, respectively, according to the industry group World Ipv6 Launch.

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Post-quantum encryption: Crypto flexibility will prepare firms for quantum threat, experts say

Network World

The problem is that building a quantum-resistant infrastructure, your algorithms, network communication tools, databases, everything, is just a ton of work,” says Forrester analyst Andras Cser, the lead author of the report. Cloud computing was the highest concern, at over 30%. That key length will be superseded by 4096 in 2030.

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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Entrepreneurial migration: It’s not brain drain, it’s global network formation

Trends in the Living Networks

My key message was that we absolutely shouldn’t see this as “brain drain”, but the formation of rich networks that are enormous enablers for the economy and entrepreneurial opportunities in the future. In a networked world, this is a critical source of success for us. So let’s drop the talk of brain drain.

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Particls switches on the power of RSS | Main | A week of hot news on the web: Trade sales mark the boom » Launching the Web 2.0 report - You can download Chapter 2 on Web 2.0

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