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Making Cloud Computing what it Should Be

I recently read an interesting article by InformationWeek detailing the Top 10 complaints about Cloud Computing by IT professionals.  This article brings to the forefront the fact that cost, security, and performance are still the main concerns in Cloud Computing. It also paints the picture of why our work in the space is so important and points […]

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Cloud DNS

A Primer on the Domain Name System (DNS)

In the early days of the Internet, humans and other computers located the few massive interconnected computers the same way: by their numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Soon, the impracticality of memorizing all these numbers became obvious and a rudimentary naming scheme was developed. A central repository of names and their associated IP addresses was […]

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Cloud DNS

What is a DNS Server?

You want to know what a DNS server is and what DNS does? Quite simply, DNS is what makes the Internet work. Seriously! Imagine going to Facebook by typing in the IP address in your browser. Obviously that’s not going to work. It’s not very memorable, and can you see people using IP addresses in […]

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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. […]

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