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For years, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) has been looming, basically waiting for adoption. It’s tested, proven, and in some places in production (e.g. US Department of Defense). The biggest benefits being its larger address space, built in security, Quality of Service, and more efficient data transmission.
We are now approaching the time where decisions need to be made, IPv4 address space is slated to run out in 2010 or 2011, so how should you approach IPv6 adoption? More…
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The next generation of Windows arrived with us last month and looking at the decision to stay put or upgrade to 7; I think whether or not you went to Vista, that 7 is a good place to be. Start planning and get all you apps tested and remediated, then roll it out. It’s going to be easier to support, so you’ll end up with a supportable platform for the foreseeable future. More…
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There has been a lot of virtualisation vendor marketing directed towards persuading everyone that connecting internal and external data centre “clouds” together using a new term “federation” is the thing to be doing. If we believe what is being said it will be very easy to move your application workload around the “cloud” between internal and external resources while keeping the performance within your SLAs.
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The Cloud definitely has a lot to offer plenty of organisations, some applications, like email are simply utility now, so I would recommend looking to the cloud for them. You would be hard pressed to provide the same for less than hosted and managed service providers are, considering the assured security, SLAs, backup, DR, mobile device support, anywhere access, the list goes on… What you should realise though is that your WAN and Internet connections become more important in the service chain.
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