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IBM NS1 Connect Reviews & Product Details

IBM NS1 Connect Overview

What is IBM NS1 Connect?

IBM® NS1 Connect is a managed service for authoritative DNS with internet traffic steering capabilities that empower fast, reliable and secure connections to users anywhere in the world. It is suited for enterprises of all sizes that prioritise continuous uptime, security and robust digital experiences. Key features include: • A global anycast DNS network, with 26 points of presence (PoPs) worldwide. • Optimise across multiple CDNs and clouds. • Rely on fast global DNS with a 100% uptime SLA. • Automatically route around service deprecations or outages & Identify and troubleshoot DNS issues. • Incorporates real-time user monitoring for traffic steering, leveraging intelligence on network performance to direct DNS connections to the most optimal application resources. • Includes DNS insights, which provide valuable analytics on traffic patterns, helping organizations identify potential security issues, misconfigurations, and performance bottlenecks. • Offers DDoS protection to safeguard against unexpected surges in traffic, ensuring that query-based spending remains manageable. • Achieve up to 200% faster performance in China. 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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IBM® NS1 Connect is a managed service for authoritative DNS with internet traffic steering capabilities that empower fast, reliable, and secure connections to users anywhere in the world. It is suited for enterprises of all sizes that prioritize continuous uptime, security, and robust digital experiences.

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BENEFITS

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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Recent IBM NS1 Connect Reviews

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Sudhanshu K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"IBM NS1 Connect: Enterprise-Grade DNS with Smart Traffic Management"
IBM NS1 Connect is a powerful, cloud-based DNS and traffic management solution that offers fast, reliable performance and advanced routing features...
Aditya S.
AS
Aditya S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good DNS management with control and transparency"
The best part about IBM NS1 Connect is its interactive interface for managing traffic and DNS configurations. It gives us real-time visibility and ...
Verified User
U
Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"DNS maintenance workload reduced"
Easy to configure and get it working. Able to drive productivity by not having to worry about load balancing and automation

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Aditya S.
AS
Product Designer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

The best part about IBM NS1 Connect is its interactive interface for managing traffic and DNS configurations. It gives us real-time visibility and control over our infrastructure, drastically improving our response times during outages or peak traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

The most helpful aspect is the smart routing and automation features, which help in optimizing performance across regions. It also integrates well with our existing monitoring tools, providing seamless alerts and analytics. The reliability has been a game-changer. Our uptime has noticeably improved, and we’ve reduced latency for users globally. 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 DNS reliability and performance issues by offering intelligent traffic handling and real-time failover capabilities. It benefits our network automation by enabling dynamic routing based on server health and location. This reduces downtime and improves user experience. The API support also makes it easy to integrate with our automation tools for faster, error-free updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SK
Full stack developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

IBM NS1 Connect is a powerful, cloud-based DNS and traffic management solution that offers fast, reliable performance and advanced routing features like geo and latency-based steering. It's ideal for enterprises needing high availability and real-time traffic control, though it may be complex for smaller teams and comes at a higher cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

Steep Learning Curve: Advanced traffic policies and configurations can be complex for new users or smaller teams without DNS expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

IBM NS1 Connect helps solve issues like downtime, slow DNS responses, and complex traffic routing. It improves application availability, speeds up performance through intelligent traffic steering, supports multi-cloud setups, and enables automation for faster DNS updates—all boosting reliability and scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepsagar N.
DN
Network Engineer - Operations
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

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.

Excellent customer support especially when used frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

One downside of IBM NS1 Connect is that monitoring of services can be presented in a more user friendly manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

IBM NS1 Connect is solving problems related to DNS management, application performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prabhakar Y.
PY
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

Setting all the things is really easy than I was expecting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

There is nothing so far to tell as a dislike. I feel everything works well for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It solves the internet traffic goes to the right direction. By managed DNS providers, our online services much more dependable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohd U.
MU
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

People shared their ideas on modern tech was the best about the connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

Nothing as such dislike but a nice experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It was beneficial in the many way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nilesh S.
NS
Azure Cloud Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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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.

Verified User in Retail
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What do you like best about IBM NS1 Connect?

Easy to configure and get it working. Able to drive productivity by not having to worry about load balancing and automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM NS1 Connect?

Non functional Metrics and reporting could be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps solves problems like DNS traffic management, application performance optimization, and resilience against outages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IK
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Business Supplies and Equipment
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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.
GH
Full-stack Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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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.
KT
System Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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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.