A sudden spike in user traffic is almost always great news. Whether it’s the due to a surge in online shopping at the start of the holiday gift season or a flood of Website visitors who recently read the cover story about your new product or service. Unfortunately, if your DNS deployment wasn’t architected to handle these sudden spikes, a good thing can turn bad pretty darn quickly. Network owners realize that there’s a crucial tradeoff between building out capacity to handle the spikes and surges and conserving budget and manpower for extending their infrastructure.
The Need
Network owners understand that an outage doesn’t have to mean the entire network is down. An outage can be the temporary or intermittent unavailability of a DNS server, DNS service cluster, data center or regional DNS service capability. The cause of an outage can be any number of things—from outright attacks or hardware failures to misconfigured networking elements, power outages or any other unplanned event. What’s important is ensuring that, when these events occur, there’s no service disruption. End users, or any downstream customers, demand continuous service capabilities across all access points and applications, and their tolerance for service degradation is zero. Furthermore, even the best and most well-provisioned networks can succumb to cascading failures that escalate to bring down entire networks. End users can’t be asked to wait while you bring your network or a specific segment of your network back online.
Our Solution
Nominum’s SKYE Resolution and SKYE Authority provide active, independent, geographically dispersed secondary service for your in-network DNS infrastructure. In case of major failures at the network node or POP level or intermittent outages at the DNS server or service cluster level, our disaster-recovery solution ensures that DNS resolution requests continue to be served with the highest performance, lowest latency and best security available. Because we combine our SKYE Resolution and SKYE Authority with the associated in-network software solution, Vantio or ANS/ANSP, respectively, our disaster-recovery solution can also ensure data continuity between the in-network storehouse of DNS data and the off-network service provided by Nominum. This data continuity allows for immediate and automatic failover and network recovery for any in-network outage scenario. The solution also allows for service and policy continuity across in-network and off-network deployments for important network imperatives, such as unified reporting, policy mirroring and DNSSEC configuration parameter consistency, ensuring a common service environment across all devices and users.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery
Introduction
A sudden spike in user traffic is almost always great news. Whether it’s the due to a surge in online shopping at the start of the holiday gift season or a flood of Website visitors who recently read the cover story about your new product or service. Unfortunately, if your DNS deployment wasn’t architected to handle these sudden spikes, a good thing can turn bad pretty darn quickly. Network owners realize that there’s a crucial tradeoff between building out capacity to handle the spikes and surges and conserving budget and manpower for extending their infrastructure.
The Need
Network owners understand that an outage doesn’t have to mean the entire network is down. An outage can be the temporary or intermittent unavailability of a DNS server, DNS service cluster, data center or regional DNS service capability. The cause of an outage can be any number of things—from outright attacks or hardware failures to misconfigured networking elements, power outages or any other unplanned event. What’s important is ensuring that, when these events occur, there’s no service disruption. End users, or any downstream customers, demand continuous service capabilities across all access points and applications, and their tolerance for service degradation is zero. Furthermore, even the best and most well-provisioned networks can succumb to cascading failures that escalate to bring down entire networks. End users can’t be asked to wait while you bring your network or a specific segment of your network back online.
Our Solution
Nominum’s SKYE Resolution and SKYE Authority provide active, independent, geographically dispersed secondary service for your in-network DNS infrastructure. In case of major failures at the network node or POP level or intermittent outages at the DNS server or service cluster level, our disaster-recovery solution ensures that DNS resolution requests continue to be served with the highest performance, lowest latency and best security available. Because we combine our SKYE Resolution and SKYE Authority with the associated in-network software solution, Vantio or ANS/ANSP, respectively, our disaster-recovery solution can also ensure data continuity between the in-network storehouse of DNS data and the off-network service provided by Nominum. This data continuity allows for immediate and automatic failover and network recovery for any in-network outage scenario. The solution also allows for service and policy continuity across in-network and off-network deployments for important network imperatives, such as unified reporting, policy mirroring and DNSSEC configuration parameter consistency, ensuring a common service environment across all devices and users.