To earn a Microsoft Gold Competency, the highest level of commitment in a solution area, organizations must complete a rigorous set of tests to prove their level of technology expertise.
IPv4 addresses are likely to not run out in 2012, according to experts, and instead the new year should be used as a time of transition for all enterprises.
Virtualization has certainly passed beyond the first stage and, as a concept, is widely accepted with nearly 40% of x86 workloads already running in virtual machines at the start of this year, and expected to grow to over 75% by 2015 according to Gartner.
June 8 marked World IPv6 Day, the day where companies like Akamai, Facebook and Google simultaneously turned on IPv6 to see how it worked, where users were coming from and what connectivity broke down.