Kris Beevers leads NS1's team of industry experts as they create products to enable companies to use DNS to build and deliver dynamic, distributed, and automated applications that delight users. He is a recognized authority on DNS and global application delivery, and often speaks and writes about building and deploying high performance, at scale, globally distributed internet infrastructure.
Kris holds a PhD in Computer Science from RPI, and prior to founding and leading NS1, he built CDN, cloud, bare metal, and other infrastructure products at Voxel, which sold to Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) in 2011.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Kris Beevers and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
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