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Cedexis

Cedexis optimizes web performance across data centers, delivery networks, and clouds for companies that want to reach new global markets. Companies can comparatively assess worldwide cloud performance and availability for making informed vendor selections and cost-and-performance tradeoffs. Cedexis also provides adaptive automation for dynamically optimizing traffic to match the best-performing clouds with local demand. Companies rely on Cedexis to ensure 100 percent availability and fast page loads, downloads, and transactions to drive traffic and revenue at lower cost and risk.

Services:

  • Cedexis Openmix: Cedexis Openmix provides a revolutionary, patent-pending approach to DNS-based Global Traffic Management/Global Server Load Balancing (GTM/GSLB). Delivers a highly robust means of ingesting real-time data from various sources, and exposing this metadata as environment "variables" which can be evaluated on each request.

  • Cedexis Radar: Cedexis Radar is designed to capture the experience of your actual visitors. Using a unique, community-based approach, Cedexis brings unrivaled transparency to the global performance and availability of the world's largest public infrastructures, from Cloud Computing and Storage to Content and Application Delivery Networks.

Features:

  • Cost optimization--Optimize traffic routing to balance price and performance
  • Cloud bursting and failover--Adapt to unpredictable spikes in demand and performance issues
  • Workload portability--Move traffic between providers to mitigate risk of lock-in
  • Vendor selection--Make informed global provider choices based on visibility
  • What-if analysis--Perform sensitivity analysis to understand how providers are performing and how applications could perform better with other available providers
  • Unified multi-platform strategies--Access to integrated, optimized, and adaptive global multi-provider strategy

Benefits:

  • Reaches new markets by weaving together a global patchwork of data centers, hosting providers, delivery networks and clouds in close proximity to local demand
  • Drives customer conversions by delivering optimal performance for fast page loads, downloads and transactions to drive revenue and other customer conversions
  • Mitigates outage risk by steering traffic between providers, mitigates the risk of outage, and ensures 24/7 availability
  • Optimizes costs by moving traffic between providers based on cost optimizations and enables informed tradeoffs between price and performance
  • Improves SEO effectiveness by reducing bounce rates caused by page load and other performance issues
  • Improves site performance by ensuring 100 percent uptime and 30-70 percent improvement in page load times, improving user experience and conversion rates
  • Informs vendor selection by providing deep visibility and comparative insight into the relative availability and performance of global cloud providers for informed vendor selection
  • Customizable actions allow organizations to write custom scripts that automate traffic routing based on fine-grained business and technical policies and thresholds
  • Adapts to change by dynamically matching actual user requests with the most optimal cloud at a specific moment in time to adapt to changing performance characteristics