Updated July 2026 — Three years of SKUDONET
This article was originally published in August 2023 following the transition from Zevenet to SKUDONET. Three years later, we have updated it to reflect the continuity of our team and technology, the evolution of the platform, and our growing focus on application delivery and security.

More Than a Name Change

Three years after Zevenet became SKUDONET, the rebrand represents much more than a new name. It marked the next stage in a technology journey that began with load balancing and has evolved to address broader application delivery, availability, and security requirements.

SKUDONET represents continuity.

The professionals who led the development, maintenance, and support of the Zevenet platform continued their work under the SKUDONET brand, preserving the technical expertise, product knowledge, and commitment to users built over many years.

At the same time, the new identity gave us a clearer way to express the future direction of the platform.

The name SKUDONET reflects a vision centered on secure application delivery. “SKUDO” evokes the concept of a shield and protection, while “NET” represents the network environments in which modern applications operate.

The change of name therefore represented both continuity and evolution: the same technological foundation and experience, combined with a broader vision for helping organizations deliver and protect critical applications.

Continuity of Technology and Expertise

The transition to SKUDONET did not mean starting again. The engineering experience behind the original platform remained central to its continued development.

This continuity helps preserve product knowledge, roadmap consistency, maintenance cycles, and support for existing deployments. Customers and partners continue to benefit from access to specialists who understand the platform across networking, clustering, traffic management, automation, reverse proxy technologies, and application security.

The principles that shaped the original project also remain central to SKUDONET:

  • High performance.
  • Ease of management.
  • Deployment flexibility.
  • Transparent access to advanced capabilities.
  • Scalability without unnecessary complexity.

These principles continue to guide how the platform is developed and how the SKUDONET team supports organizations managing business-critical infrastructure.

A Broader Vision for Application Delivery and Security

Load balancing and high availability remain at the core of SKUDONET. However, modern organizations face a broader challenge: applications must remain available, responsive, and protected across increasingly complex infrastructures.

SKUDONET has therefore evolved beyond traffic distribution alone. The platform combines application delivery with security capabilities such as Web Application Firewall protection, DDoS mitigation, bot protection, threat intelligence, SSL/TLS management, and role-based access control.

Integrating these capabilities into the application delivery layer enables organizations to improve control over incoming traffic without adding multiple disconnected products or increasing operational complexity.

This broader focus reflects the purpose behind the SKUDONET brand: helping organizations manage application performance, availability, and security through a unified and accessible platform.

Built for Modern Infrastructure

Application environments have become increasingly distributed. Organizations now operate across on-premises data centers, virtualized infrastructures, public cloud platforms, and hybrid architectures.

SKUDONET supports these environments through virtual appliances, bare-metal installations, dedicated hardware appliances, and cloud deployments. This gives infrastructure teams the flexibility to select the deployment model that best fits their technical, operational, and security requirements.

For organizations that prefer a fully managed service, SkudoCloud provides application delivery and protection without requiring them to operate the underlying infrastructure.

This range of options allows organizations to apply a consistent approach to application availability, traffic management, and security without being restricted to a single infrastructure or deployment model.

Open-Source Roots and Enterprise Capabilities

Open source has always been part of the project’s identity.

SKUDONET continues this commitment through its Community Edition, providing developers, IT teams, educational institutions, and smaller environments with access to open-source load balancing and integrated Web Application Firewall capabilities.

For organizations managing business-critical applications, SKUDONET Enterprise Edition extends the platform with advanced traffic management, security, automation, scalability, continuous updates, and professional support.

This approach allows organizations to begin with an accessible open-source solution and move toward enterprise-grade capabilities as their infrastructure, security, and operational requirements evolve.

It also reflects one of SKUDONET’s core principles: advanced technology should be available without unnecessary complexity, hidden modules, or barriers to adoption.

The Next Stage of SKUDONET

SKUDONET is not a break from Zevenet. It is the continuation of the same technology journey, engineering expertise, and commitment to users.

Three years after the rebrand, the SKUDONET name represents a clearer and broader vision for the future: helping organizations operate and protect critical applications with greater simplicity, flexibility, and control.

The name changed. The foundation remained. And the platform continues to evolve.

To explore the technical evolution of the platform since the rebrand, read From Zevenet to SKUDONET: The Evolution of an ADC Load Balancer.

For guidance on migration, deployment, or choosing the right SKUDONET solution for your infrastructure, contact our team.