Public resolvers dominate the internet, accounting for nearly 60% of recursive DNS usage, while telecom giants represent nearly 9%, according to application traffic solution provider NS1. NS1 used its DNS Insights to analyze more than 7.5 trillion DNS queries and 15.1 trillion packets over a 90-day period in late 2022 to gather the data. The … continue reading
The authoritative DNS (Domain Name System) solutions company NS1 has announced the release of DNS Insights, a comprehensive DNS observability solution available for both NS1 Managed DNS and Dedicated DNS customers. According to the company, DNS Insights is intended to improve reliability, real-time analysis, and cost control through the collection of DNS and network metrics … continue reading
NS1 has announced a new solution that it hopes will help companies mitigate the effects of internet outages. It combines the company’s DNS solutions, Filter Chain technology for rerouting traffic, and automation capabilities. “Internet infrastructure can be unpredictable, especially in the wake of a global pandemic that continues to drive unprecedented traffic and network congestion,” … continue reading
IBM and Apptio have announced a new collaboration to help drive adoption of IBM’s open hybrid cloud. The companies will provide customers with optimization and migration capabilities to IBM Cloud through Red Hat OpenShift in Apptio’s financial decision engine. In addition, IBM Global Business Services will advise clients using strategy, design, road mapping, and architectural … continue reading
Micro Focus launched Digital Safe Managed Services to help regulated organizations reduce legal and operational costs. The new offering provides customers a variety of services, including end-to-end consultancy services that provide in-house experts and predictable service costs to perform ongoing archiving and compliance tasks. “The Micro Focus Digital Safe Managed Services remove roadblocks to efficient … continue reading
Solo.io has announced updates to Gloo Mesh Enterprise. According to Solo.io, the latest updates simplify the process of setting up multi-cluster and multi-mesh service mesh environments. Gloo Mesh Enterprise now includes Gloo Mesh Gateway, which is an API gateway. Other new features include observability improvements, improved security certificate management, added N-4 version support for Istio, … continue reading
Aqua Security has unveiled its new Aqua Platform. It includes a new unified console, reduces administrative burden, and allows teams to get started with scanning and cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities and then allow them to add in more advanced features like sandboxing and workload protection down the road as needed. Other new features … continue reading
NS1 is providing IT teams with more information into their application traffic with the release of Traffic Analysis Dashboards within Pulsar Active Traffic Steering. The dashboards give metrics on availability, latency, and traffic distribution. This makes it easier for teams to monitor and optimize their application delivery and performance. According to NS1, latencies in performance-driven … continue reading
Google Cloud has announced updates to its Cloud Monitoring plugin for Grafana. It has added sample dashboards for Google Cloud services, a deeper link between Grafana and Google Cloud Monitoring, an improved query interface, and a new Monitoring Query Language (MQL) interface. “The observability of metrics is a key factor for a successful operations team, … continue reading
NS1 and Salesforce have announced that they have collaborated on the first implementation of multi-signer DNSSEC. This enables the cryptographic signing of DNS records across zones with multiple DNS platforms. According to NS1, DNSSEC prevents DNS spoofing and cache-poisoning attacks. They believe that this implementation is well-timed because cybercriminals have been increasingly targeting DNS lately. … continue reading
DNS and traffic management solution provider NS1 has announced the open source release of its Flamethrower tool for testing, benchmarking, and stress testing DNS servers and networks. Flamethrower supports IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, and DNS over TLS. It also offers experimental support for DNS over QUIC. It generates the queries for tests using a modular … continue reading