Dynect allows websites to use cloud globally

MANCHESTER, USA: Cloud computing offers the promise of on-demand capacity delivered around the world. Until now, companies have had an extremely difficult time taking advantage of this capability. There has been no simple way to deploy services in different clouds around the world and then direct customers to the closest available server, without investing in expensive hardware.

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For example, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service allows the rapid deployment of servers in several datacenters, but provides no way to load balance requests to these servers, detect and route around failures, or direct customers to the closest server. This gap has significantly impacted the market acceptance of cloud computing and forced companies to pursue traditional infrastructure options.

Dynamic Network Service, Inc. takes aim at this problem with its latest release of the Dynect Platform and the general availability of Dynect Traffic Management, a DNS-based global server load balancer.

The new solution gives network and system administrators a DNS-based alternative to costly hardware-based global server load balancing systems.

Dynect Traffic Management is the simplest, most effective and reliable way to take global advantage of cloud computing. Using Dyn Inc.'s global anycast DNS network, customers are able to direct their clients to the geographically closest available server. By selectively routing clients to different servers, latency and web page load times are reduced, increasing service availability and heightening the user experience. Server load balancing, monitoring and failover are all incorporated into the Dynect Traffic Management service.

“With Dynect Traffic Management, companies can optimize the sizeable investment they have already made in deploying servers globally,” said Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO Dyn Inc. “Through global server load balancing, existing network resources are able to reach peak performance, thereby delivering clients noticeably reduced load times and increased stability.”

According to the report, Dynect Traffic Management marks a significant improvement to Internet traffic delivery over other forms of global load balancing. The Dynect Platform can be used to direct Internet traffic based on a combination of user geography and available capacity at a specific site.

Load balancing and failover rules are configured via the simple web interface, enabling the sophisticated monitoring network to detect failures and automatically route Internet traffic to available servers in addition to sending an alert to system administrators.