Every year, Black Friday pushes e-commerce infrastructure to its limits. In 2025, U.S. online Black Friday sales reached $11.8B, with shoppers spending more than $16 million per minute during peak hours (Adobe Analytics). Traffic surges far beyond normal patterns. Storefronts, APIs, carts,...
We have introduced a minor enhancement to the NS1 Connect login experience to improve usability, simplify how users sign in and to align with IBM identity standards. What is changing? The login experience has been streamlined by consolidating multiple sign-in options into a single...
Security teams everywhere are pushing for more frequent credential rotation – and for good reason. Long-lived API credentials increase risk, expand the window of exposure when secrets are compromised and often become difficult to track over time. If you are an SRE or a team responsible for...
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A DNS query is the first step in the critical path of most internet services. Whether that is a web site, app, or even any internet-connected ‘smart’ product, most of these require DNS queries. It also has a unique problem. It is that nearly all top-level domain providers set the TTL (Time to...
NS1 Connect Integrations with Terraform, Ansible, OctoDNS and OpenStack Designate NS1 Connect, the intelligent DNS and traffic management solution from IBM, is built for automation. By integrating with leading Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) toolkits,...
In our recent webinar , we explored how organizations can leverage intelligent Multi-CDN Steering to deliver faster, more reliable digital experiences while reducing costs and vendor lock-in. With user expectations higher than ever and the stakes of downtime or poor performance ...
When Cloudflare experienced downtime this week, many services across the internet were impacted . For organizations that rely heavily on Cloudflare’s global CDN footprint, it was a disruptive event. For customers of IBM NS1 Connect, the experience was meaningfully different . This ...
Modern applications and digital services depend on DNS as their critical entry point. Any disruption in DNS can lead to outages that impact user experience and business continuity. To mitigate these risks, organizations increasingly adopt multi-provider DNS strategies to enhance resiliency...
Rethinking DNS for a Multi-cloud World In today's distributed application ecosystems, organizations rely on multiple cloud providers for scalability, resilience, and performance. Managing consistent DNS configurations across providers like IBM NS1 Connect and Amazon Route 53 can be...
On September 25, 2025 IBM NS1 Connect, Catchpoint and Metamend came together to host a webinar on a topic that sits at the crossroads of marketing, infrastructure and search technology ‘ Beyond SEO: How DNS impacts AI Search and Web Performance’ . ...