Twitter directories such as Twellow and the newer WeFollow from Digg founder Kevin Rose can go a long way toward helping you find Twitterers of interest. But when it comes down to compiling a really focused list, you have to get your hands dirty and plunge around through a bunch of individual Twitter accounts, too.
Enterprise IT pros, I’ve done the dirty work for you here and compiled if not the ultimate list of enterprise IT and network companies, at least a pretty good one of about 100 companies. (For those of you I accidentally missed, please make your presence known via the comments box or email me at bbrown@nww.com. You can follow me on Twitter here. Keep in mind, though, that I have tried to limit this list to companies providing IT/network products and services to enteprise IT customers, not to service providers or OEMs. Maybe that’s a list for another time.)
Twitter directory to enterprise IT and network companies | NetworkWorld.com Community
People, Resources
Find out what books William Stallings, the author of Business Data Communications and Computer Organization and Architecture, was recommending in 1995, and see his updated comments from 2009.
This article was originally published in the Winter 1995 issue of Addison-Wesley’s newsletter, Innovations.
William Stallings is the author of more than a dozen books, including Business Data Communications and Computer Organization and Architecture. Back in 1995, we asked Bill to list his top choices for technical books. Here are his selections from back then, and his updated annotations from 2009 [in italics].
InformIT: A Look Back: Expert’s Choice of Must-Have Books by William Stallings >
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The United States has lost one of its most ardent proponents of IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, with the death of Jim Bound earlier this week. Bound was a Senior Fellow with HP, Chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force and CTO of the IPv6 Forum.
U.S. loses IPv6 leader - Network World
History, IPv6, Internet
“Unless we’re willing to rethink today’s Internet,” says Nick McKeown, a Stanford engineer involved in building a new Internet, “we’re just waiting for a series of public catastrophes.”
That was driven home late last year, when a malicious software program thought to have been unleashed by a criminal gang in Eastern Europe suddenly appeared after easily sidestepping the world’s best cyberdefenses. Known as Conficker, it quickly infected more than 12 million computers, ravaging everything from the computer system at a surgical ward in England to the computer networks of the French military.
Do We Need a New Internet? - NYTimes.com
Internet, Security
Australian Geoff Huston is one of the foremost authorities on Internet routing and scaling issues. We sent Huston a few questions about the U.S. government’s plan to bolster R&D to secure the Internet’s core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
Detecting Internet routing “lies” - Network World
Internet, Security
The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet’s routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding digital signatures to router communications.DHS says its routing security effort will prevent routing hijack attacks as well as accidental misconfigurations of routing data. The effort is nicknamed BGPSEC because it will secure the Internet’s core routing protocol known as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). (A separate federal effort is under way to bolster another Internet protocol, DNS, and it is called DNSSEC.)
U.S. plots major upgrade to Internet router security - Network World
Internet, Security
Google has begun preaching the wonders of IPv6 in the hope more awareness will help expedite the transition from the legacy IPv4 networks most people use today.
During a presentation at this year’s linux.conf.au in Hobart, senior Google software engineer Angus Lees recalled how Google’s IPv6 efforts started as a covert, hobbyist project about two years ago and has gained enough momentum that a AAAA record for google.com could be added to Google’s DNS in a year.
Google ramps up IPv6 mission, google.com a year away - Network World
IPv6, Internet
Education and healthcare have been early adopters of 100+Mbps 802.11n WLANs. Now Cisco wants the rest of the enterprise market to take the plunge.By John Cox, NetworkWorld.com, 01/14/09
Cisco Aironet 1140: 802.11n for the mainstream - Network World
Network, Wireless
Galois is pleased to announce that Cryptol, the language of cryptography, is now available to the public!
Cryptol is a domain specific language for the design, implementation and verification of cryptographic algorithms, developed over the past decade by Galois for the United States National Security Agency. It has been used successfully in a number of projects, and is also in use at Rockwell Collins, Inc.
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