We are running out of IPv4 Internet addresses, but who is using them all up? The IP address space usage per capita differs greatly between nations, which points to a digital divide. If we would distribute IPv4 addresses uniformly over the world population, there would be less than 1 address per person. In fact, on […]
Here is my submission for “Taking the drama out of cloud computing”. See the full series at http://vimeo.com/11686637 Clouds are disruptive! Whoever thinks otherwise, and considers cloud computing to be a mere fad invented by marketing departments, without any substance, is in a severe state of denial! Cloud computing is real, and it is growing. […]
In an entertaining series of short videos, Novell’s Marketing department has taken blogposts by various bloggers and transformed them in a café style poetry reading. Style and substance merge as a solid point on cloud computing is made in a minute or two.Is it surreal, is it a pastiche? See the channel on vimeo Now let’s […]
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, explains how web applications will be built in the future. His point is twofold. The bad news is that expectations for good web applications are sky high. It has to have rich media, available on multiple devices, very scalable, social networking and that is just the beginning. The good news […]
#tnw This year’s edition of the next web feels a bit like coming home again. The atmosphere is vibrant with energy to discover and develop new cool technology. If anything, there is a healthy disregard for convention and ‘the way things are supposed to be’. No boring windowless conference rooms here, the organizers have a […]
I am through with IPv6. By now all my websites (that I know off) are dual stack with native, untunneled IPv6. Thanks to Xs4all.nl and AVM.de (the FritzBox guys) I have native IPv6 in my home office. Setup was a breeze. On http://test-ipv6.com/ my connection scores 10/10 for IPv6 readiness. I have had a lot to do […]
This coming week I’ll spend quite a bit of time at The Next Web Conference. Tweeters: follow #tnwArguably, this is as close to Silicon Valley level energy as you can get in Europe. I’ll be blogging and tweeting (@petersgriddle) a bit as time permits. My personal focus is on things quantifiable and cloudness, so if […]
Google App Engine Blog: App Engine joins the Google over IPv6 Program Again promising progress in the IPv6 arena. For you developers out there, this is an opportunity as well as a wake-up call. Be prepared to handle IPv6 traffic.
At the 35th annual international meeting of the Computer Measurement Group (see link), I presented our measurements of the cloud. Bits of an earlier analysis were posted on petersgriddle over a year ago (see cloud tag). This presentation is now available with audio and Q&A on slideshare (follow link). I was rather pleased with the […]
IPv6 traffic as a percentage of total traffic at isc.sans.org almost tripled from 0.5% to 1.3% of all users of the website. Isc.sans.org is a security institute. The report analyses the provenance of this traffic (lots of tunnels!) and the security implications of this.