One of the topics readers suggested I look into while at Cisco Live! this week was what was happening with the uptake of IPv6. The short answer? Not much.

Moving to a cloud provider means you don't have to worry about maintaining hardware or managing software. However, no cloud service has perfect uptime, so you still need to make sure that you plan what you'll do if there's an unexpected outage at one of your providers.

Lifestyle Working's multi-tenant office building in Melbourne's Docklands offers an unusual combination of green design (including solar panels you can buy individual strata titles for), high-speed broadband and an on-site garden where tenants can grab herbs and fruit for their lunch. Check out the facilities in this photo tour.

Diversity brings complexity. If you want to maximise the benefits of any IT platform or service and reduce the costs, it helps to standardise on a single choice. But when it comes to virtualisation, the odds are growing that you'll end up with more than one hypervisor to manage -- and that might work out cheaper.

Yeah, everything is a service these days. Optus has just rolled out a Contact-Centre-As-A-Service.