IBM is providing a brand new service that makes use of DNS to assist enterprise prospects extra successfully load stability extremely distributed utility and multicloud workloads.

The IBM NS1 Connect Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) service ties collectively the corporate’s NS1 DNS expertise with real-time consumer knowledge in a package deal that guarantees to convey quicker connectivity together with improved failover and resiliency, in keeping with David Coffey, vp of product administration and software program networking for IBM.

IBM acquired DNS specialist NS1 in 2023, gaining traffic-steering technology that intelligently distributes DNS visitors throughout the community. NS1’s DNS companies could make dynamic selections about the place to ship an web request primarily based on availability, efficiency, time-of-day and plenty of different calculations. It additionally lets prospects arrange redundant DNS servers for backup or failover conditions to solidify resiliency.

Real-time consumer knowledge is vital as a result of it consists of particulars resembling community efficiency, consumer areas and engagement, collected from website or utility customers straight.

Customers can use NS1 Connect GSLB to stability server and utility masses primarily based on the latency of end-user gadgets and different real-time info the system gathers. The intention is to enhance the standard of expertise whereas permitting prospects to arrange a number of routing pathways, eliminating the one level of failure, Coffey mentioned. That’s completely different from conventional inline GSLB options, internet utility firewalls, elastic and utility load balancers, which route all visitors by a single ingestion level, growing danger and reducing utility resilience, he mentioned.

“One of the key things is that customers can set up a global traffic management policy, which can be a powerful, automated [with included support for Terraform and Ansible], highly customizable tool for distributed resource traffic management,” Coffey mentioned.