Today, a new protocol goes live on much of the Internet as IPv6 permanently replaces IPv4 on more than 1,000 Web sites, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and other major Web brands.One year ago,
Published on: June 6th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
Sometime back in 2010 we started running articles warning businesses that IPv4 addresses were running out.Various industry experts warned that companies should demand that Internet Service Protocol services and domain name registrars adopt
Published on: March 19th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening
Published on: December 14th, 2011
Marc Ferranti
@itbusinessca
Experts are reporting a rise in the number of attacks that take advantage of known vulnerabilities of IPv6, a next-generation addressing scheme that is being adopted across the Internet. IPv6 replaces the Internet's
Published on: August 26th, 2011
Carolyn Duffy Marsan
@itbusinessca
More than 70 per cent of IT departments plan to upgrade their Web sites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals
Published on: July 28th, 2011
Carolyn Duffy Marsan
@itbusinessca
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 as
Published on: June 10th, 2011
Jaikumar Vijayan
@itbusinessca
A surge of IPv6-based Web traffic began flowing over the Internet last night when World IPv6 Day began, according to data gathered by Arbor Networks.Arbor released some initial findings at 9 a.m. EDT
Published on: June 9th, 2011
Carolyn Duffy Marsan
@itbusinessca
The looming depletion of Internet addresses has split the networking world into "IPv4 diehards" and "IPv6 purists," but the real needs of businesses lie somewhere in between the views of these extremists, a
Published on: May 8th, 2011
Stephen Lawson
@itbusinessca
In the run up to rolling out IPv6 connectivity to their customers, small Internet service providers (ISPs) in Canada have a leg up over the country's large incumbent telcos.In the last 15 years,
Published on: May 6th, 2011
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
Brocade Networks announced last week that it provides the routers and switches that underpin the network backbone operated by Hurricane Electric, a leader in next-generation Internet services using the emerging IPv6 standard. Brocade's
Published on: March 15th, 2011
Carolyn Duffy Marsan
@itbusinessca
It's hard to fathom why Cisco hasn't added IPv6 to its Linksys consumer routers yet, but the company has promised support will come this spring.It's 2011, IPv4 addresses are officially exhausted, and the
Published on: February 10th, 2011
Julie Bort
@itbusinessca
With the last IPv4 addresses about to be allocated, the good news is that IT managers -- at least in the U.S. and Europe -- don't suddenly have to get the next Internet
Published on: February 1st, 2011
Stephen Lawson
@itbusinessca
Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it initially.Yahoo's massive
Published on: January 20th, 2011
Carolyn Duffy Marsan
@itbusinessca
Several of the Internet's most popular Web sites - including Facebook, Google and Yahoo - have agreed to participate in the first global-scale trial of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main
Published on: January 13th, 2011
Carolyn Duffy Marsan
@itbusinessca
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