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Blogs · MCP

Observability to Autonomous Operations

From Observability to Autonomous Operations: The Next Frontier in Application Resilience How connected telemetry, intelligent decision-making, and carefully governed automation can help organizations move from detecting problems to resolving them faster. Most IT teams aren’t short of monitoring data. They’re short of time to turn that data into the right action. Modern application environments generate […]

Marco Essomba

Blogs · MCP

AI Agent Governance

AI Agents Need Guardrails: Building Trustworthy Infrastructure Automation Why identity, least privilege, policy enforcement, and human accountability must be part of enterprise AI operations from day one. Giving an AI assistant access to information is one thing. Giving it the ability to make changes to your production infrastructure is something entirely different. For years, enterprise […]

Marco Essomba

Blogs · Load Balancing

What is an Application Delivery Controller?

What Is an Application Delivery Controller (ADC)? An application delivery controller (ADC) is a network service that sits between users and your application servers. It spreads traffic across healthy servers, handles TLS encryption, checks server health, speeds up responses and filters attacks, so applications stay available, fast and secure. ADCs run as hardware, virtual appliances, […]

Total Uptime

AI · Blogs

MCP for Enterprise Infrastructure

From AI Assistants to AI Agents: Why MCP Is Changing Enterprise Infrastructure Management   Artificial intelligence is becoming a familiar part of everyday business operations. We use it to summarize information, answer questions, generate reports, and make sense of increasingly complex data. But for IT and infrastructure teams, there is a much bigger opportunity emerging. […]

Marco Essomba

Blogs

Global Server Load Balancing Without Appliances

GSLB Without Appliances: Global Server Load Balancing as a Service If you manage infrastructure across multiple locations, whether that’s two data centers, a primary cloud region with a disaster recovery site, or a network of retail and branch locations, you’ve probably encountered the challenge of keeping applications available when something goes wrong. Global server load […]

Greg Howett

Blogs · Outages

NetScaler vulnerabilities

NetScaler Zero-Days: Can Your Applications Stay Online During a Security Incident? A critical security alert arrives, and your team needs to act. The affected system may need to be isolated, investigated and updated before it can safely return to service. The difficulty is that this same system sits between your users and the applications they […]

Nadet Rautenbach

Blogs · Cloud DNS

DNS failover explained

DNS Failover Explained: From Health Checks to Hands-Free Automation If your primary server, data center, or cloud region goes down at 3 a.m., how long does it take for traffic to move somewhere healthy, and who needs to be awake to make it happen? For many teams, the answer still involves a pager, a VPN […]

Greg Howett

Blogs

SOC 2 Type 2 and Operational Resilience

SOC 2 Type 2 and Operational Resilience: Why Independent Assurance Matters Every infrastructure provider can say its platform is secure, resilient, and ready for the enterprise. The harder question is whether the controls behind those claims have been independently examined and shown to work consistently over time. For organizations running payment systems, customer-facing applications, regulated […]

Marco Essomba

ADCaaS / Load Balancing · Blogs · Load Balancing

What Is Load Balancing & Do You Need It?

What Is Load Balancing, and Do I Need It? Most people never think about load balancing until something stops working. A website becomes painfully slow during a traffic spike. An application server fails and suddenly nobody can log in. A planned maintenance window turns into an outage because there is nowhere else to send users. […]

Total Uptime

ADCaaS / Load Balancing · Blogs · Load Balancing

What Is Load Balancing & Do You Need It?

What Is Load Balancing, and Do I Need It? Most people never think about load balancing until something stops working. A website becomes painfully slow during a traffic spike. An application server fails and suddenly nobody can log in. A planned maintenance window turns into an outage because there is nowhere else to send users. […]

Nadet Rautenbach