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IIFON Journey to F root Installation

This article is intended to share the news of a milestone achieved by IIFON (India Internet Foundation), by installing F-Root Server instance and making it operational. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with Internet Systems Consortium INC on 16th August, 2021. The benefit will be reached to those users whose Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are connected to Kolkata IXP IIFON with its strong Technology Support, is working relentlessly for Critical Internet Infrastructure for the benefit of multi-stakeholders of Internet. IIFON, as an early adopter of Internet Technology, started its journey for hosting Root Server instances in the year 2015. Starting from the scratch the Foundation has already setup Global instance of L-Root and Local instance of J Root Servers

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Data Center Virtualization

A History of Virtualization The concept of virtualization is generally believed to have its origins in the mainframe days in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when IBM invested a lot of time and effort in developing robust time-sharing solutions. Time-sharing refers to the shared usage of computer resources among a large group of users, aiming to increase the efficiency of both the users and the expensive computer resources they share. This model represented a major breakthrough in computer technology: the cost of providing computing capability dropped considerably and it became possible for organizations, and even individuals, to use a computer without actually owning one. Similar reasons are driving virtualization for industry standard computing today: the capacity in a single

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Social Media – Notion of Identity & Role of Government

INTRODUCTION The value of participation in social media accrues to the users at the individual level by impacting the self-wellbeing of the individual and at the societal level by means of civic engagement and thereby providing an increased thrust for larger use of social media. (Pendry and Salvatore, 2015). The benefits of social media are largely from the participative nature of contemporary digital environment. The speed of embracing the social media technologies signifies that it has moved from a platform of information sharing to a platform of communication and entertainment (Collin et al., 2011). However, there are arguments that increased usage of social media is eroding the social construct, hampering the family relationships and values and eroding privacy. It is

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