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• Business continuity emerges as latest IPv6 killer app

  DENVER - IPv6 appears to have found a new killer app: business continuity.

• IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say

  Next year will see one more regional Internet registry run out of IPv4 addresses, but 2012 will be more of a year to prepare for the inevitable shift to IPv6 than an Internet doomsday, according to networking experts.

• IPv6 adoption increases 1900 per cent in 12 months

  Results of an IPv6 census have revealed the proportion of zones — part of the domain name hierarchy that can be delegated to others — under .com, .net and .org supporting IPv6 increased by 1900 per cent in the last 12 months.

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  Boost in IPv6 use is only one step to solution

  Support for IPv6 has grown by almost 20 times in the past year by one measure, but most websites still can't be reached without IPv4, the current Internet Protocol, which is near running out of unclaimed addresses.

• Infoblox adds master controller to product line

  Infoblox will unveil on Monday a new type of IP appliance aimed at its largest customers, which are increasingly delegating the management of critical network services to business units but want the IT department to monitor overall network performance.

• World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

  The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the start of World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999.

• Neustar, Infoblox team on cloud service

  In another sign that DNS operations are migrating into the cloud, industry leader Neustar will announce on Tuesday a new managed service that allows companies to outsource all of their internal DNS and related network address management functions that run on Infoblox appliances.

• Infoblox ports network services to Cisco's ISR

  Infoblox has ported its Nios network services software to run as a virtual appliance on Cisco's ISR branch routers.

• Infoblox upgrade thwarts DNS attacks

  Infoblox Monday announced upgrades across its line of core network services appliances that are designed to better protect DNS servers from cache poisoning and other malicious attacks.