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IBM NS1 Connect Reviews & Product Details

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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

the strong traffic control is the perfect functionality or you can say feature of IBM NS1 Connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

i think it has a larger features and its pricing was too high . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM NS1 Connect solves important problems like dns, traffic management etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM NS1 Connect Overview

What is IBM NS1 Connect?

IBM® NS1 Connect is a managed service for authoritative DNS and traffic steering designed to enhance application performance and ensure network resilience. This solution is particularly vital for revenue-generating applications that depend on reliable DNS resolution to maintain the availability of critical applications and websites. Without a robust and resilient DNS infrastructure, organizations risk diminished network reliability and a compromised user experience. The target audience for IBM NS1 Connect includes enterprises and organizations that require high availability and performance for their online services. This service is especially beneficial for businesses operating in sectors where uptime is crucial, such as e-commerce, finance, and media. Specific use cases include managing DNS for global applications, optimizing traffic routing based on real-time performance data, and ensuring compliance with regional regulations, such as those affecting internet traffic in China. Key features of IBM NS1 Connect include: A global anycast DNS network, which provides fast connections through 26 points of presence (PoPs) worldwide. This ensures that users experience minimal latency, regardless of their location. The service also boasts a 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA) for DNS resolution, which is critical for maximizing uptime and revenue generation. The API-first architecture allows for seamless integration and automation of workflows, enabling IT teams to manage DNS operations more efficiently. Moreover, IBM NS1 Connect incorporates real-time user monitoring for traffic steering, leveraging intelligence on network performance to direct DNS connections to the most optimal application resources. Built-in resilience features allow users to add a redundant DNS layer, enhancing reliability while managing everything from a single portal. The service also includes DNS insights, which provide valuable analytics on traffic patterns, helping organizations identify potential security issues, misconfigurations, and performance bottlenecks. Additionally, IBM NS1 Connect offers DDoS protection to safeguard against unexpected surges in traffic, ensuring that query-based spending remains manageable. The uptime monitor feature allows for quick identification of issues and automatic adjustments to DNS traffic steering configurations, enhancing operational efficiency. With preconfigured integrations for leading DevOps tools like Ansible and Terraform, IBM NS1 Connect supports automation of routine maintenance tasks, further streamlining DNS management for enterprises looking to optimize their performance and reliability.

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NS1 offers the industry's only Managed DNS service in China with Nameserver Acceleration that overcomes performance challenges caused by the Great Firewall.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

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Improve reliability and resilience: Keep users reliably connected and revenue flowing with a 100% uptime SLA1, constant monitoring and redundant protections against service deprecation.

Optimize network performance: Advanced, customizable traffic steering capabilities ensure you can deliver applications, services and content with the performance your users expect.

Streamline DNS management: Spend more time on higher-value work by automating both simple and complex DNS configuration tasks through NS1 Connect’s API and preconfigured integrations.


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Very good event to collaborate with technical professional to discuss trending technologies especially AI, NS1 etc
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

The best thing i can say about IBM NS1 is the global Anycast network that is being used for fast and rebliable DNS solutions. Its easy and user friendly to use.

The ease of implementing it has taken this tool to the next level.

Always got the best customer support as well.

You can use it n number of times but still feel like something new.

Also, its API driven and real time monitoring and analytics makes it a real favourite.

The Service feature is provides helps integration with other resource very sturdy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

Frankly Speaking there is nothing as such the tool has not left anything which could be disliked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have tried to integrat IBM NS1 with our DNS for better DNS management, traffic routing, and overall resilience of our infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

The automation and manageability of IBM NS1 connect are its most alluring features, the API-first architecture makes it simple for me to incorporate NS1 connect's features into my development processes, when compared to manually configuring DNS settings, this save a significant amount of time.

NS1 provide a number of features , including tutorials and customer support , to get up and start using it .

Also the ease of integration play a vital role since it is a cloud based solution so it is much easier to implement than on-premise ones.

With its emphasis on APIs, automation features and favourable user experieces, IBM NS1 connect appears to be a viable option for me so that we can use it frequently on daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

There should be flexible pricing subscription as compared to open source or basis DNS management options,

Also relying on NS1 connect can lock for a certain duration of time, so migration DNS configuration is a small challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can use code to automate DSN configiration and traffic routing due to its NS! connects APIs-first methodology. This removes the need for labour -itenisve and mstake prone manual configiration changes,

By automating these chore, I can devote moe of my time to mai development work . It can be difficult to fine-tune DNS for best performance across various geographical locations. This process made simpler by NS1 connect's global network infrastructure and traffic steering features , such as real-user monitoring based steering. NS1 connect contributes to quick load times and a seamless user-experience for our apps by automatically directing user to the closest and most capable server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gagan H.
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

It's an excellent tool, I have used ever before for DNS queries.

I am recommending to the people who looking for efficient tool for DNS security services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

Not experienced anything bad about tool yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ns connect 1 solving our day to day queries and policies in DNS service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kavya T.
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

IBM ns1 helps to keep our application running always uptime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

I did not find any issue yet will be post if any in community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has authoritative DNS solutions it help us to improve our application solutions so it's helpful to move ns1 connect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pranav J.
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

Yeah, it's a easy tool to use and I can see more uptime while using it so I can expect more productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

It's a very good tool and I have not found any issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's scalable and easy to use

So I am recommending this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gabriella N.
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

I like the managed-DNS solution by NS1, mostly because of its URL forwarding option (URLFWD record). This is specifically helpful when dealing with a cybersecurity problem where you are somewhere between your domain provider, hosting company, and a DNS or security management platform.

My experience when I dealt with a cybersecurity problem was:

When I moved the website from the hosting company I was using and parked it with the domain provider the problem stopped. I was able to see this from the stats of the security management platform I was using.

This gave me a chance to figure out what the problem was, but the website was down. Being able to set forwarding from the domain provider with nameservers pointing to the security management platform would have been great but it was not possible. I was also not able to set up forwarding with the security management platform either.

In short parking, the domain, and pointing name servers to a security management platform, halted the problem but left the website down. And I was not able to set up forwarding from either the domain provider or the security management platform.

Using NS1 would be:

Point nameservers to NS1 and being able to access the DNS, see stats/queries by location, and then set up URL forwarding. This way a website would not be completely down while resolving a problem.

When I was going through the cybersecurity problem I had not come across NS1, I just came across it recently, but its a keeper. At that time I ended up with a site that was down for a long time.

I also like how NS1 shows queries. You can see activity at 30-minute intervals (almost in real-time) and you can set a filter to see activity over 1 hour or 24 hours, which is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

Even though NS1 shows queries almost in real-time, the shortfall is that it does not show the URLs that are being requested. If for instance, you see that queries to a website are not as expected perhapse they are too high indicating that there could be a cybersecurity problem you are not able to explore this further by seeing the URLs that are being requested.

The other issue is that there is no option to add a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

I do appreciate that a more detailed view of web traffic and the option to add an SSL is something that you would get from a hosting company, but it would just be cool to have this in one place? NS1 would be a one-stop spot to fix some cybersecurity problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

NS1 helps me manage DNS and to see website queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selva k.
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

It helps to have authoritative DNS and traffic steerng Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

The tools has lot of quality features, but some metrics and the GUI needs to be i proved for user friendly and better experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helpful in solving DNS security problem and it will be a great benefits for the users like me who use these features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MADANKUMAR S.
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

Very good event to collaborate with technical professional to discuss trending technologies especially AI, NS1 etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

I don't find any negative on IBM NS1 as of now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping to organize our DNS server in all possible way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suneelkumar K.
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

IBM NS1 Connect is a excellent tool which can be optimize our app performance and dns data as per business requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

i don't find any dislike feature yet overall good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

user interface in the dashboard console has great UI to monitor our DNS data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

It was good initiative to collaborate with experts on cybersecurity and product expert of NS1 provide dns data insights for application monitoring and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

I did not experienced any bad features on this product surprisingly all features working as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM NS1 Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?

So, before with other products facing a issue an dns data insights and authoritative but in NS1 we have very dns authoritative for security performance.so it helped us to monitor and manage our dns enterprise network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.