The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there's no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will embrace alternatives such as carrier-grade network address translation to share the few remaining IPv4 addresses among their new users.
Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated its upcoming mobile chips for thin-and-light laptops, which the company said will lead to cheaper but equally speedy alternatives to Intel's expensive ultrabooks.
Despite its proximity and popularity, industry watchers say Mexico could face competition from South American countries as U.S. companies look for offshore alternatives to India.
Last time, I mentioned how the virtualization market is set to really take off this year. The good news for end users is that VMware is no longer the only game in town. Companies such as Virtual Iron, XenSource and Microsoft are fine-tuning their products, providing some good alternatives to the VMware standard.
Security researchers at SPI Labs Inc. are warning iPhone users not to use a special feature that lets them dial telephone numbers over the Web using the iPhone's Safari browser.
A recent newsletter stirred up a lot of opinions from industry watchers and network managers on the current state of TCP and what needs to be done to improve the protocol today. Research firm Gartner called for improvements to TCP, but the responses vary as to what might work to enhance performance of the protocol.
A few weeks ago, I began a series that puts the spotlight on enterprise users who are virtualizing x86 servers, but with technology other than VMware. There is no denying that VMware remains the dominant force in the x86 virtualization market, but this really is the year when alternatives to VMware will start getting more attention.
An investor in Clearwire has stepped up its fight to get a better price for the mobile operator, but Clearwire's alternatives to a Sprint Nextel buyout may be limited due to the nature of its spectrum and its business.
Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processor than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving to the cloud.
Don't give all your business to a single provider, even if it's convenient. The name of the game is to keep your options open. Particularly in light of mergers between the former incumbent local exchange carriers and interexchange carriers, it's wise to nurture relationships with cable companies and alternative carriers, which can often provide alternatives for local access.
Industry watchers expect the available pool of 65,000 H-1B visas to be exhausted within hours April 1 and many experts advise companies to prepare alternatives to hiring a foreign worker as it becomes more of a long shot.
Blackberry's board of directors has formed a committee to explore strategic alternatives for the future of the company that could include joint ventures or a sale of the company, as it struggles to turn its new BlackBerry 10 operating system into a success.
As BlackBerry’s board of directors formally begin exploring “strategic
alternatives,” they’ll find their options limited, according to two IT sector
analysts. All the likely alternatives call for a much diminished company, or
broken up into some software assets and a brand value that’s declining every
day.
Microsoft is looking at alternatives to ultra-low-cost laptops in the drive to arm people in developing nations with a way to communicate and access the Internet, and the company is turning its sights on cheaper devices that can give people a start in computing, such as smartphones and shared computing.
My recent articles on wireless, copper and fiber as desktop alternatives resurrected the age-old debate of whether fiber optics could or should be used to connect desktops to a LAN.
I planned to spend more time playing with the recent Linux distribution from Xandros, Version 3 of Business Edition, but Microsoft caused so many headlines recently I moved this column up. Since the state of Massachusetts and the country of South Korea are pushing Microsoft away, or at least demanding open source document formats, should you dump Microsoft? No, but you should at least take some time and consider alternatives such as Linux and OpenOffice 2.0, especially if saving money matters to you.
Industry experts agree that the future of two widely used security algorithms is fated, but with no clear alternatives in sight, products that rely on them may have to remain 'good enough' for some time.
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