Posts about version 6 of the Internet Protocol – the one with the really long numeric addresses – which has been awaited for nearly as long as Godot. Most of us are still using version 4, where addresses are only 12 digits. And no, I don’t know what happened to version 5.
[This post was originally published on the TERENA conference blog] Tuesday morning at the TERENA Networking Conference 2012 began with an entertaining and important call to action by Geoff Huston, on why we may have left transition to IPv6 too late and the serious consequences for open Internet connectivity that could result. It was recognised […]
Matt Cook’s talk at Networkshop explained Loughborough University’s thinking on how virtualisation might be used to provide both resilience and flexibility by allowing services to be moved between different locations in both internal and external clouds. Rather than virtualising a single server, this involves creating a virtual container holding the various components required to deliver […]