{"id":53863,"date":"2023-09-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3707353\/ibm-service-uses-dns-to-deliver-multicloud-connectivity.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:00:00","slug":"ibm-service-uses-dns-to-deliver-multicloud-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ibm-service-uses-dns-to-deliver-multicloud-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM service uses DNS to deliver multicloud connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IBM is rolling out a new DNS-based service that will let customers securely control connectivity<\/a> between distributed multicloud environments.<\/p>\n

NS1 Connect is one of the first fruits from IBM\u2019s acquisition of DNS specialist NS1 earlier this year. The service is aimed at helping organizations set up the best connection between clouds and end users to deliver applications optimized for performance, cost, security and availability.<\/p>\n

Core to the NS1 Connect package, which will be available Oct. 17, is traffic-steering technology that intelligently distributes DNS traffic across the network. DNS<\/a> is often described as the Internet\u2019s phone book, working in the background to match the names of web sites that users type into a search box with the corresponding IP address.<\/p>\n

NS1 Connect\u2019s advanced DNS services can make dynamic decisions about where to send an internet request, based on availability, performance, time-of-day and many other calculations, according to Andrew Coward, general manager of software defined networking with IBM, who wrote a blog<\/a> about the news.<\/p>\n

The most common traffic-steering rules include avoiding unavailable, overloaded, or under-performing endpoints, IBM wrote in a brief<\/a> about the NS1 service.<\/p>\n

\u201cNS1 offers a set of basic monitors you can use to track its up\/down status of an endpoint. Alternatively, you can use one of the supporting monitoring service integrations to pull data collected by third-party monitors to the NS1 platform to inform traffic steering,\u201d IBM stated.<\/p>\n