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NS1 Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Jonathan Sullivan, CTO and co-founder of NS1, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Sullivan has more than a decade of experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical, distributed IT solutions across colocation, bare metal, cloud, and CDN for companies ranging from dot com startups to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Prior to NS1's founding, he led the New York Managed Hosting Operations team for Voxel from 2006 through its acquisition by Internap in 2011. At Internap, he led the Hosting Business Unit and Sales Engineering organizations’ evolution to become a key competitor in modern hosting and hybrid cloud ecosystems. Sullivan studied Computer Science at RPI.

NS1 automates the deployment and delivery of the world’s most trafficked internet and enterprise applications. Its software-defined, next-generation application networking stack modernizes DNS, DHCP, and IPAM to unlock unprecedented automation, visibility, and control in today’s complex, heterogeneous environments.

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NS1 Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
APMdigest

Jonathan Sullivan, CTO and co-founder of NS1, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

Sullivan has more than a decade of experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical, distributed IT solutions across colocation, bare metal, cloud, and CDN for companies ranging from dot com startups to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Prior to NS1's founding, he led the New York Managed Hosting Operations team for Voxel from 2006 through its acquisition by Internap in 2011. At Internap, he led the Hosting Business Unit and Sales Engineering organizations’ evolution to become a key competitor in modern hosting and hybrid cloud ecosystems. Sullivan studied Computer Science at RPI.

NS1 automates the deployment and delivery of the world’s most trafficked internet and enterprise applications. Its software-defined, next-generation application networking stack modernizes DNS, DHCP, and IPAM to unlock unprecedented automation, visibility, and control in today’s complex, heterogeneous environments.

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