Another holiday season has come and gone and if you're like me, although holidays are supposed to be relaxing they're always a bit too hectic to be doing any serious planning - or making meaningful resolutions. As a rule, it's important to take stock of the past years successes and failures and now that the kids are back in school and the work routine has begun again it's time to review 2008 and think about 2009. But do it quick before the work routine buries you again.
The top ten (or top 21, 50, 100...) lists are a good place to start and fortunately all of the media outlets publish some form of "Best/Worst _____ of 2008." They often publish a shorter list of predictions for the coming year too. After the long winter's nap the right lists can really spark your memory of 2008 and get creative juices flowing again for 2009. When you're reading the lists decide what you agree with and what doesn't add up, perhaps even what's missing and should go into your business planning or your personal resolutions.
You may have already read 100 emails touting one or more of the articles I've mentioned below, but check out a few and use them to do your own planning.
Time's Best Inventions of 2008
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need a new laptop? see:
enjoy other people's misery? see:
Maybe a summary of 2008 in the form of awards from one of our favorite tech blogs, ArsTechnica
or a best of the best from Lifehacker's Most Popular Top 10's of 2008.
One of the year-end articles that caught my attention came from ArsTechnica and concerns the exhaustion of IPv4 address space on the Internet (see IPv4 Addresses: Almost 200 million served in 2008). In 2008 I wrote a report on this topic for the Burton Group and this ArsTechnica post reminded me to continue to reach out and urge the IT world to start thinking about IPv6.
Although many large enterprises may have all of the IPv4 space they need, the bottom line is this: the time when large service providers can no longer find large blocks of IPv4 address space to use is fast approaching. The most likely place for them to turn? IPv6. This means IPv6-only hosts (those that only speak IPv6) are going to appear on the Internet -- is your enterprise ready to speak to them?
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