In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

Brocade, citing the major impact the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will have on service providers' ability to offer cloud-based services, this week introduced solutions for helping manage the ...

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is more efficient, more secure, and more mobile-friendly than IPv4. And in an exploding ecosystem of Internet-capable smart devices which IPv4’s 4.3 billion ...

There’s no question that the move from IPv4 to IPv6 is a necessary move over the next several years. And an oft-quoted milestone for the adoption is the use of IPv6 by the federal government. However, ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

As the operator of some of the core Internet name servers, including the DNS root, .com and .net, Verisign has a unique view into the challenges of transitioning to IPv6 and progress to date. The ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...