Shifting from IPv4 to IPv6 will take years and could be a bumpy ride. But few organisations will find the process as complicated as cloud computing providers, says Lori MacVittie. Not since the first ...

It is no secret that the 4 billion-plus Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are just about used up. According, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), “phase 4” of its IPv4 ...

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, IPv4 addresses have become a crucial commodity. With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses due to the rapid expansion of internet usage, businesses and individuals ...

Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the ...

The marking of World IPv6 Day yesterday has drawn fresh attention to the next generation Internet addressing protocol, as well as to the security considerations that enterprises will need to deal with ...

IPv6 was supposed to become the standard protocol soon after the RIPE NCC officially exhausted the outstanding IPv4 reserve in 2019. As IPv6 has been growing more and more in popularity, smart homes ...

With the demise of Apple's own networking protocol AppleTalk, Apple's products are suffering from the same issue as anyone else's: the Internet is running out of addresses. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, ...

When the clock hits midnight on Wednesday, June 8 UTC, World IPv6 day begins. Many Web destinations—including the four most popular (Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Yahoo)—will become reachable over ...

IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of ...