Why you should know about DigitalOcean if you don’t already
On this week’s Structure Show, DigitalOcean CEO explains why simplicity (and love???) are key to his company’s success in the hyper-competitive IaaS world.
Upstart cloud player Digital Ocean to roll out IPv6 worldwide
Digital Ocean needs a ton more IP addresses for all those compute “droplets” it runs for customers. So it’s moving all its data centers to IPv6 by years’ end.
Microsoft scrambles for IPv4 addresses for US users
It really is time to move to IPv6 if even Microsoft can’t dredge up any more U.S. IPv4 addresses.
With billions of devices coming online, cloud providers better get with IPv6 program
AWS, Google, Microsoft et al. have a huge appetite for unique IP addresses, but except for Amazon’s ELB, they don’t support IPv6. Expect that to change in the near future.
The state of the internet is under attack (but it’s also faster)
More people are on the internet and overall global broadband connection speeds are faster. That’s the good news from Akamai’s quarterly State of the Internet report.
DigitalOcean bulks up European presence with new Amsterdam data center
Spunky IaaS player DigitalOcean adds much more capacity and private networking capabilities in new Amsterdam facility.
Don’t break the internet! Stop spying and move to IPv6 pronto!
The heads of technology organizations that maintain the standards and connections underlying the internet met in Uruguay to address the recent (and not-so-recent) challenges facing the net. Here’s what they said.
Web giants take on phishing in quest to make the Internet better
Companies such as Google, PayPal, Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up to create a standard to help boost email security. They are part of a working group to create the DMARC standard, which will help cut down on the number of phishing attacks.
World IPv6 switch-over event scheduled for June 6
The Internet Society is organizing a pow wow of big ISPs, web companies and networking equipment providers on June 6 to ceremonially bury the world’s current Internet protocol, IPv4, and permanently implement its successor, IPv6.
Verizon upgrades network for a 100 gig world
Long-haul networks aren’t the only pipes getting 100 gigabit upgrades these days. On Tuesday Verizon said it is upgrading the metro networks in at least seven U.S. cities to meet the demand for broadband at the edge. Looks like we’re closing in on the terabit age.