Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it will start bringing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support to its Azure Active Directory services.

Fast-growing cloud provider DigitalOcean has started offering slices of physical servers to customers with IPv6 addresses — the future protocol of the Internet, as more devices come online. Now ...

The addition of IPv6 data to some of the internet root servers marks the start of a mass migration that should guarantee the supply of unique IP addresses Written by David Meyer, Contributor Feb ...

Shortened or not, IPv6 addresses don't lend themselves to easy memorization. Don't fret, though; you can use the same naming conventions for IPv6 as you did for IPv4.

IPv6 addresses are denoted by eight groups of hexadecimal quartets separated by colons in between them. IPv6 networks themselves use Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation.

In general, most IPv6 host networks will consist of 64 bits of network space (exactly half of the total 128-bit address). That’s a huge amount of space — enough for about 18 quintillion hosts.

IPv6, with its glorious address space, is just what’s needed to connect all those billions of things, or is it? Written by Bruce Sinclair, Contributor March 25, 2014, 4:30 a.m. PT ...