IPv6 News

Erion’s David Holder is to speak at this year’s SambaXP conference in Göttingen, Germany. The paper entitled “How to Implement Samba in IPv6 Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 Networks” will provided detailed guidance on migrating heterogeneous networks to IPv6 using Samba. Details of the Samba XP agenda can be found at http://www.sambaxp.org/index.php?id=154.

Erion has been instrumental in the IPv6 enabling of the popular Windows and Unix integration open source package Samba. We were the first to successfully IPv6 enable the Linux CIFS client, Samba 3.2 and Samba4. In addition, we carried out the first IPv6 SMB connections between Samba and Windows Server 2008. Further information on Erion’s work with Samba and IPv6 can be found on our IPv6 blog at http://www.ipv6consultancy.com/ipv6blog/?cat=4.

SambaXP runs from 5th  May to 6th May 2010.

The ICANN meeting will discuss evolution of the Internet, its security and innovations that would create new business opportunities in Kenya.
Complete info at Business Daily Africa.

Objectivity is shipping a new release of its Objectivity/DB database system and is recruiting solution providers to work with the new software.
Complete info at CRN.

The IPSO Alliance, which promotes the use of internet protocol (IP) for smart object communications, has added a new heavy hitter to its lineup. Google has joined the organization-with the end goal of connecting not only cars, phones, and computers but even mundane appliances such as smoke detectors and microwaves. With the addition of Google and four other companies (FUJITSU, Echelon Corp., the Elster Group, and Augusta Systems), the alliance totals 53 member companies.
Complete info at EContent.

The Government is proposing a system to filter the Internet. The proposal is a complaints-based system that would block specific URLs only after they have been brought to the government's attention and also deemed to be Refused Classification. It would operate using a secret list and make it mandatory for all ISPs to block sites on the list for all Internet users in Australia.
Complete info at ON LINE opinion.

The Regional Internet Registries are conducting a Internet community consultation process regarding the recent ITU IPv6 Country Internet Registry (CIR) proposal. In collaboration with the other Regional Internet Registries, APNIC hosted a special session at APNIC 29 / APRICOT 2010 to give the global Internet Community an opportunity to discuss the issues and ramifications of the alternative model proposed by the ITU.
Complete info at CircleID.

Addition of ZigBee to TazTag NFC-secured portable devices brings new applications such as secure metering and remote controls to market.
Complete info at CNN, EarthTimes and Sys-Con.

Astaro RED, Astaro Mail Archiving and Astaro Wireless Security will allow organizations to better connect and secure their networks.
Complete info at PRWeb and 7th Space.

Interface Masters Technologies, an industry leader and innovator in networking solutions, today announced its family of 10Gb Switches. Niagara 2924 is the first member of the family, a 24 Port, 10 GbE fully managed switch that is designed to integrate with Datacenter, Blade servers, Carrier Ethernet and Metro Ethernet devices, HPC clusters, enterprise storage systems, IT Security Appliances and Central Office applications.
Complete info at TMCnet.

Force10 Networks, Inc., the global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business, today announced its customer, the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), recently won the Bandwidth Challenge held at the International Supercomputing Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC09). The NCDM utilized the Force10 S-Series S2410 data center 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch to demonstrate three applications that show efficient bandwidth utilization in distributed data-intensive applications.
Complete info at EarthTimes, FoxBusiness and CEN.