4 Steps to making sure your VPN access remains seamless
Recent events have compelled organizations of all sizes and across industries to adopt new work approaches that keep employees safe at home while ensuring productivity and security.
Companies Mitigating VPN Overload By Steering Connections at DNS Layer
The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused remote work to surge to unprecedented levels. Millions of employees worldwide are accessing VPNs for the first time all at once for remote access, straining these systems.
Three Reasons Why BIND Impedes Digital Transformation
BIND being a product of its time has outlived its usefulness. Let’s take a look at three crucial IT modernization elements that Network Engineers need to embrace yet are not supported by BIND.
IT Resiliency Keeps Businesses, Learning and Entertainment Moving During Unexpected Events
With the World Health Organization declaring the coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic, several states declaring a state of emergency, and countries around the world enacting mandatory wide-scale quarantines, the nature of our lives has changed.
A message to NS1 Customers and Partners from NS1's CEO
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic continues to evolve, I want to take a moment to reassure you of our plans for business continuity at NS1.
Don’t Let a DNS Outage Ruin Your Reputation
Robinhood, a popular mobile trading app, experienced a complete outage earlier this week leaving users unable to access their accounts or make trades. The outage was due to a breakdown of infrastructure that allows systems to communicate.
5 Ways to Boost Network Operations Efficiency with Smart Traffic Steering
It’s undeniable that operating enterprise networks and applications are growing in complexity. The number of migration projects moving production applications and workloads across different on-premise and hybrid cloud environments are increasing.
Intelligent DNS Based Load Balancing at Dropbox
The Dropbox Traffic team is charged with innovating our application networking stack to improve the experience for every one of our users—over half a billion of them.
Is It a Good Idea to Rely on an End of Life DNS Service?
Is it the right thing for your business to rely on a DNS service that has an announced end of life and will be shutting down soon? Before you make this important decision, you should consider the ramifications.
5 Ways Containerization Benefits Network Teams
Sandbox deployment slowed by heavyweight DNS appliances? See why NS1 containers give you speed to burn.
ITGL and NS1: Partnering to Take DNS Security to the Next Level
We are bringing our software-defined, API-first approach to DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI) behind the firewall to work alongside Cisco Umbrella’s enterprise approach to network security.
Transforming Your Network Infrastructure Using APIs
Without automation tools, network engineers are unable to focus on value-generating activities such as optimizing for better performance or developing new architectures for modern apps.
3 Challenges of Traditional DDI—And How NSI’s Enterprise DDI Solves Them
One often-overlooked element in the application traffic stack is the DNS lookup. DNS is a ubiquitous protocol and the entry point to nearly every networked application, but teams have been relying on the same outdated technology for almost 20 years.
NS1’s Continued Investment in Pulsar - Fuel on the Fire to Push the Boundaries of Active Traffic Steering
Today we are reinforcing Pulsar’s place as the most innovative application traffic steering technology in the market with a series of announcements.
Dell and Cisco Invest in NS1’s Vision to Manage the World’s Application Traffic
Today, we’re proud to announce a huge validation of NS1’s leadership in application traffic, DNS, and DDI. We have raised a $33M Series C investment round, led by Dell Technologies Capital and joined by Cisco Investments
International Podcast Day
It’s International Podcast Day! To celebrate, NS1 is sharing some of our employees' favorite podcasts to listen to, as well as some podcasts we’re featured in!