With IPv4 addresses running out rapidly, Verizon says businesses are better off adopting IPv6 sooner rather than later. And with 4G (long term evolution – LTE) and WiMAX devices with dedicated internet access, the demand for IP addresses will only increase, thus necessitating the adoption of IPv6 even sooner, William Schmidlapp, Verizon Business’s product manager for Internet dedicated access services, told Network World

Healthcare Not Up To Task Of Securing Electronic Medical Records, Experts Say As healthcare organizations work to earn the incentives dangled in front of them by the HITECH Act, the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) has accelerated. But at the same time, healthcare fraud has also risen, and experts say if organizations don’t effectively address data and database protection in healthcare’s transition from paper to digital record-keeping, the threats to patient confidentiality and organizational security will skyrocket