Last July 23rd, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission announced its plan to accelerate the adoption and application of the IPv6 protocol over the next 5-10 years. The plan is divided in three stages and is to be completed over the next decade. With these timeline
Stackscale is one of the sponsors of next week’s IDC CIO Summit 2021 in Spain. A digital event that will focus on the key aspects of digital business acceleration in a context of deep and constant change. The event will take place on September 22nd and 23rd, 2021 on the virtual platform Hopin. IDC CIO
September 10, 2021 is the 31st anniversary of Archie, the first Internet search engine. Archie was launched on September 10, 1990, and developed by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal (Canada). This first search engine had nothing to do with the interactive interfaces we know. On the contrary, its
SSH, short for Secure Shell, is a remote administration and network protocol; originally designed to replace Telnet and other unsecured protocols such as the Berkeley Remote Shell (rsh). SSH enables secure remote system administration and file transfer over unsecured networks. In this article we will talk about the SSH protocol and its versions, SSH clients
CDN is the acronym for Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network. The fast growth of the Internet worldwide led to the emergence of CDNs in the late 90s. They were born as a solution to mitigate the Internet’s performance bottlenecks. Since the Internet was quickly becoming mission-critical for a growing number of companies and
The 95th percentile bandwidth metering method, also known as “burstable billing”, is the most effective method used for metering and billing bandwidth usage. That is probably why it has become a standard among most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) worldwide. This flexible method avoids penalizing customers for data transfer peaks and helps providers reduce their infrastructure
Due to the success of the eCommerce Mascarillas y Más, thanks to Boticaria García’s1 charity masks project, it was necessary to change the IT infrastructure to support traffic peaks and avoid losing sales. While looking for a cloud environment that met their requirements, they opted for a High-Availability private cloud at Stackscale. In the following
Data center fires are rare but they are also a good example of how important Disaster Recovery planning is. Most fires in data centers are quickly located at the source, allowing the equipment to be isolated and the damage contained to a small area. But their impact can be catastrophic if they are not quickly
Intel® Cascade Lake is the first microarchitecture to introduce in-hardware mitigations for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. Cascade Lake is the former name of the 2nd generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. This generation includes many improvements in terms of speed, security, performance and efficiency. Intel®’s Cascade Lake microarchitecture features Cascade Lake is the codename
When migrating to the cloud, security must be taken into consideration from the beginning. By preparing a secure migration to the cloud, you will not only avoid many risks, but also save a lot of time and money. There are many factors to consider when migrating to the cloud, from your company’s current security measures
