NS1’s Integration with OpenStack Designate Powers Application Delivery and Connectivity for Open Source Private Cloud

Built for security, redundancy, and performance at a global scale, NS1 ensures consistently exceptional application experiences.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NS1, the leader in application traffic intelligence and automation, today announced an integration with Designate, a multi-tenant DNS-as-a-Service (DNSaaS) for OpenStack. Now, users can deploy, configure, and orchestrate NS1’s Managed DNS and Enterprise DDI services from the OpenStack platform for more reliable, performant, and secure application delivery.

Thousands of companies around the world use OpenStack’s open source platform to build and manage private cloud infrastructure. These users require modern network services that are manageable within the platform and can readily scale with their infrastructure. With its OpenStack Designate integration, NS1 is the first company to bring the power of application traffic intelligence and automation to open source private clouds, substantially improving application delivery and connectivity. NS1’s software-defined solutions integrate seamlessly into OpenStack workflows, enabling users to orchestrate application traffic and cloud workloads dynamically for increased control over performance, reliability, and security.

“Customers that use OpenStack as their cloud computing environment need highly reliable, scalable DNS and network services,” said Sanjay Ramnath, vice president of products, NS1. “With NS1’s intelligent and automated application traffic steering solutions, these teams gain powerful automation and orchestration capabilities that drive greater IT efficiency and make it simple to balance application delivery performance, capacity, and cost.”

Designate enables companies building private clouds in OpenStack to manage DNS records, names, and zones as well as configure existing DNS nameservers to contain those records. NS1’s integration provides access to more robust cloud-native network services. By integrating with NS1, OpenStack users have highly performant, scalable, and resilient application delivery across their distributed private cloud environments. Built for security, redundancy, and performance at a global scale, NS1 ensures consistently exceptional application experiences across all infrastructure environments.

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About NS1

The internet and applications powering our world depend on NS1. Billions of people connect to work, school, entertainment, and healthcare, and stay informed because of the company’s innovative technology. As an ally for innovators, NS1 helps our customers turbocharge their ideas in pursuit of building the better future through connecting applications and audiences at the distributed edge. NS1’s application traffic intelligence and automation portfolio makes applications faster, more reliable, and more secure everywhere. With technologies for cloud-native network services, edge-to-cloud networking, and application traffic optimization, NS1 helps eliminate the barriers between applications, users, infrastructure, and data. NS1 has more than 725 customers across the globe, including Dropbox, Fox, Salesforce, LinkedIn, and eBay, and is backed by investments from Energy Impact Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Cisco Investments, and GGV Capital.