IBM NS1 Connect

Score7.9 out of 10

35 Reviews and Ratings

What is IBM NS1 Connect?

IBM NS1 Connect is a managed service for authoritative DNS and traffic steering designed to improve application performance and network resilience.

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Managed DNS

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Pros

High availability and reliability for critical services
Intelligent traffic steering, including geo-based routing
DDoS protection enhances security posture

Cons

User interface and user experience (UI/UX) require simplification
Insufficient documentation and support resources
Monitoring capabilities could be more integrated and comprehensive

Tushar Chaubey

Project Manager in Information Technology at Adaptable Services (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for DNS management and routing traffic for our applications. Our goal is to reduce the outages and keep the dns propagation or modification faster on the internet.

Also, i love how it helps me to avoid manual dns switch - like if any region has a issue it quickly switches. I find it more reliable than the previous DNS services i have used. Also, it helps my team to navigate their focus more to production work instead of managing DNS downtimes.

Pros

It handles traffic routing very well
NS1 platform is very strong in api automation
it performs well in case of failovers management

Cons

User interface - there is lot of room for improvement - In this case your competitors are doing very well.
Also, creating very helpful knowledgebase - it would help people with less networking knowledge can use your platform more
Reporting side can be visually better - Basically UI UX

Return on Investment

I think the biggest impact of NS1 is its uptime and reliability
It reduces my team manual work from the infra team
in terms of failover or switchting to lower latency endpoints this works flawlessly

Alternatives Considered

Gcore CDN, Cloudflare and Bunny CDN

Other Software Used

Cloudflare, Bunny CDN, DigiCert CertCentral

Alok Singh ☁️View profile

Technical Consultant in Information Technology at Salesforce (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it for improving user experience. It offers smart routing which helps sites to be reliable and performance got improved. In my organization use case it was huge traffic and it was very necessary for system to be responsive all the time.

Pros

Routing based on user location
endpoint switching based on latency
DNS response time

Cons

User Experience - Please make it more easy to use for Admins
Also add some more details in the reference documents
Try if they can offer a monitoring tool

Return on Investment

Availability
Response Time
Security
Trust on IBM NS1 Connect

Alternatives Considered

SAP Integration Suite

Other Software Used

Salesforce Experience Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud, Slack, Google Meet

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Abu Shumon View profile

DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Amplience (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM NS1 Connect to manage our domains and DNS. Most of our business domains are hosted in IBM NS1 Connect. It helps us manage domains, subdomains, and zones in one place, which makes daily work much easier. It also helps with monitoring, so we can spot issues quickly and keep services stable.In short, IBM NS1 Connect solves the problem of managing many domains at scale and gives us a simple, reliable way to handle DNS operations.

Pros

Adding zones
Adding CNAMES
Domain validations

Cons

Web UI session management & session timeout should redirect to login screen
find out nameservers of a domain
overall UI

Return on Investment

IBM NS1 Connect has overall positive impact
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Alternatives Considered

Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

Other Software Used

AWS Fargate, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM NS1 Connect offers DNS and traffic steering service which enhances application and services performance. Major upsides of using IBM NS1 Connect is 100% uptime SLA by suing resilient and redundant resources. Integration with other services is well guided and easy to use. It has given our public services more visibility.

Pros

IBM NS1 Connect provides a comprehensive solution for managing and optimizing traffic steering.
It provides solutions like Dedicated DNS, which offers a separate resolution network for authoritative DNS, ensuring maximum uptime even in the face of outages.
It utilizes real-time metrics and automated DNS routing decisions to optimize traffic distribution and ensure resilience.

Cons

The user interface could be made for friendly
Additional monitoring services should be added in dashboard
DNS timeout issues should be resolved

Return on Investment

Application uptime has improved by 40-45%
Although there have been few outages, the services uptime has significantly improved our trust by clients.
Cost is on higher side, however in the long run it does provide good ROI

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Route 53

Other Software Used

Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS, CloudfloorDNS

Verified User

Account Manager in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM NS1 Connect for the external DNS and the Global load Balancing.
This product has helped us with the merger and acquisition with banks we have acquired over time.

Pros

Ease of user interface
Merger and acquisition
Ease of SSO and API integration

Cons

Pricing
La carte options
Integration with internal platforms

Return on Investment

M&A easy integration
Account and technical integration
Gave us a green zone for our non prod SDLC compliance

Alternatives Considered

Cloudflare

Other Software Used

Operations1, Snow Atlas, Atlassian Jira

Cloudflare

Cisco Umbrella

Vercara UltraSecure

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