Archive for the ‘Cloud Load Balancer’ Category
No Datacenters!
Having come from another tradeshow, we are surprised to keep hearing over and over that organizations believe they must add datacenters (usually by colocation) in every market they want to reach to provide decent service to their end users. In fact, that is often the far more expensive and resource-intensive method to reach those markets. [...]
CDNetworks Inc.Avoid massive weather-related outages with autonomous systems
Recent weather-related and other outages by large cloud service vendors should be a lesson to anyone using a cloud provider to guarantee 100% service availability. Any single point of failure at any point in the system, such as a central management system or centrally-managed DNS, can never be 100% available. Instead, use cloud services that [...]
CDNetworks Inc.Internet Outages: They Can’t Be Avoided. But You CAN Cope.
The DNS outage heavily reported on Twitter this afternoon is another reminder of the fragility of the Internet. The Internet is undoubtedly the 8th wonder of the world. It is probably one of the largest, most globally collaborative, man-made entities that has ever been built. Composed of so many moving parts, it’s amazing that it [...]
Sharon BellCDNetworks, Director of Marketing, Americas & EMEA
An Indian Wedding and DNS-based Cloud Load Balancing
What can an experience in organizing an Indian wedding teach you about the benefits of a DNS-based cloud load balancer? Plenty, I’d say. Being able to direct traffic to the most optimal resources, in real-time, as user requests come in, is a skill that comes in handy when you are in charge of a wedding. [...]
Sharon BellCDNetworks, Director of Marketing, Americas & EMEA
