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The document discusses the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and the challenges organizations face in making this transition. It outlines some of the major challenges as the cost of transition, lack of technical skills within organizations, complexity of transitioning protocols, and dealing with legacy systems and interoperability issues. It also discusses how IPv6 will impact cloud computing environments.

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Case Study 5.1

The document discusses the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and the challenges organizations face in making this transition. It outlines some of the major challenges as the cost of transition, lack of technical skills within organizations, complexity of transitioning protocols, and dealing with legacy systems and interoperability issues. It also discusses how IPv6 will impact cloud computing environments.

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CASE STUDY 5.

CBSC 5100: Cloud Computing from the Ground Up


CASE STUDY 5.1

Abstract

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), a 32-bit Internet business protocol, fails to host a large number

of hosts. In 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the nodal agency for

assigning IP addresses, completely exhausted the central pool of IPv4 addresses. IPv4 fails to

expand and bridge the security improvements that today's modern internet requires. The only

possible option is to switch to IPv6.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) provides 2,128 address space, meaning trillions of addresses, and

the deployment of IPv6 has grown lately. This paper examines some of the challenges in moving

from IPv4 to IPv6 and also discusses the impact of transition on cloud computing.
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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a new generation protocol for the basic Internet

Protocol , IPv6 works similarly to IPv4 in that it provides the unique digital IP addresses needed

for devices that support internet connection. However, there is one major difference: it uses 128-bit

addresses.

The upcoming IPv6 revolution should remove these barriers and provide a feature-rich

environment for the future of global networking. Depleting IP addresses by IPv4 means that

internet users will have to adopt the IPv6 standard. However, although the IPv6 standard provides

more naming addresses and is designed to allow the Internet to grow steadily, both in terms of the

number of connected hosts and the total volume of traffic transported over a super Internet

connection due to the increase in an available namespace, the transition to IPv6 poses a major

challenge for enterprises. Common concerns are CIO / CFO convince paging, cost of

implementation, implementation complexity, legacy systems handling and interoperability, IPv4

stockpile termination.

Challenges of a transition to IPv6

Organizations and companies seeking to move from IPv4 to IPv6 face great challenges, and

I will talk about most of them

1. Cost of the transition

Transition to IPv6 protocol involves many types of cost overheads, since IPv4 and IPv6

are incompatible, they cannot run on the same infrastructure therefore the cost of transitions

becomes a barrier to the adaptation of the technology by certain businesses of them are new

infrastructure, monetary assets, hiring new skill personnel, investment of productive time.
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2. Technical skills of organizations

Most of the organizations lack the knowledge and skill involved in this transition. Lack

of knowledge of the IPv6 standard and the technologies required for configuration is a barrier to

adaptation. The ability of IT departments to achieve transformation is not guaranteed by the

skills and time allocated to them. Hence, time and hiring a new skill is a major cost effect

concern.

3. Complexity

Just like any new software or technology this change in networking protocol is also

complex. The IPv6 is not designed to be backward compatible with IPv4. Therefore many

companies are skeptical of the problems that may arise from migrating to IPv6. The bigger issue

is if there any possibility of compatibility between the old and new protocols. This is due to a

lack of complete understanding of IPv6 by all the employees and the transition usually involves

employees from multiple departments working together for a successful transition.

4. Dealing with Legacy systems and interoperability

Legacy systems basically mean legacy hardware for software components that do not

have the ability to integrate with the new IPv6 protocol stack. This leads to interoperability

issues and the replacement / upgrade of some existing components to newer versions. Dealing

with this issue requires many hours of thorough analysis and testing of interoperability issues

which can end in unending effort and huge expense


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Impacts on Cloud Computing

IPv4 is still the dominant protocol in use and is quickly running out of address spaces to

assign numerous systems in a cloud environment. This is making IPv4 hard to manage in cloud

infrastructure. Hence, they are forced to adapt to IPv6 which is much better in all aspects of

comparison to IPv4.

IPv6 will have a greater impact on the underlying physical infrastructure of the virtual

environment and cloud computing. IPv6 was not originally developed for the cloud

infrastructure. However, IPv6 shows so much potential in a cloud computing environment.

Research over the years has shown that the transition might be difficult but once everyone

completes the transition IPv6 is a much easier and less complex protocol to deal with for IT

administrators’ perspective. The trade-off for cost investments are in the favor of IPv6

implementation in Cloud platforms.

Among the benefits of IPv6 to cloud computing, is security. “Insecurity is one of the critical

issues that generate reluctance to potential customers to make use of cloud computing” The fear

of losing sensitive data stored on the cloud prevent businesses form acquiring cloud services.

IPv6 has the potential to create a safer environment in which data can be exchanged easily with no

downside for security, the mechanism developed to slow down the IPv4 address exhaustion,

network address translation (NAT), can be considered one of the main obstacles that inhibit

proper security in the cloud and stop the deployment of addiction protection measures. IPv6 will

provide cloud users better security than IPv4.


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References

Marinescu C. D., (2013) Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice

Sridevi, S. (2012). Benefits of IPV6 in cloud Computing. International Journal of Scientific

Research, 2(6), 119–121. https://doi.org/10.15373/22778179/june2013/38

112, 1516–1522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.050

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