Reports

Why Vendor Dependency Is Becoming a Strategic Infrastructure Risk
What we are seeing across enterprise ADC projects, and why more infrastructure teams are re-evaluating long-term vendor dependency. For years, infrastructure decisions were assessed through a familiar set of criteria: performance, availability, security, compatibility and cost. Those factors still matter. But conversations around critical infrastructure are becoming broader. In discussions with customers, partners and infrastructure…

The Invisible Infrastructure Behind the Digital Economy: Why Application Resilience Is Now a Strategic Priority
Most digital transformation conversations still revolve around the same two topics: moving to the cloud, and adopting AI. Almost nobody talks about what's underneath: the infrastructure that has to actually hold the weight of both. That gap was on display at a recent Spanish technology summit, where government officials and industry executives kept circling back…

How to Choose a Cybersecurity Provider in 2026: Why Most Can’t Be Trusted
Cybersecurity is no longer just a technical problem. It's a trust problem. Only 5% of IT decision-makers say that both they and their organization fully trust their cybersecurity providers, according to the Cybersecurity Trust Reality 2026 report by Sophos, based on responses from 5,000 organizations across 17 countries. A remarkably low figure and a deeply…

Top NetScaler Alternatives in Europe (2026 Guide)
For years, NetScaler has been one of the most widely used Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) in enterprise environments. Many organisations rely on NetScaler to ensure high availability, application security, and traffic management across critical infrastructures. However, in recent years, companies have started to evaluate alternative ADC platforms for several reasons, including: licensing complexity vendor dependency…

How Kernel-Level Load Balancing Improves Performance and Latency
When evaluating load balancers, teams often look at features, benchmarks, or latency claims. But the factor that usually determines how far a load balancer can scale is much simpler: where the traffic is processed inside the operating system. In Linux, packets originate and are handled in the kernel, where the TCP/IP stack runs. User space…

What the AWS Outage Revealed About Global Continuity in the Cloud
In the early hours of October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced one of the most significant service disruptions of the year. The incident originated in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region — one of the provider’s oldest and busiest zones, hosting critical components of its global services. For several hours, thousands of applications and…

From Zevenet to SKUDONET: How the ADC Platform Has Evolved
Updated July 2026. This article has been revised to reflect the technical evolution of the SKUDONET platform since the Zevenet rebrand, including advances in traffic management, application security, operations, deployment flexibility and managed cloud delivery. From Rebrand to Platform Evolution In 2023, Zevenet became SKUDONET, marking a new stage in the development of the same…

How to Choose the Right Application Delivery Controller
Choosing an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is not just about ticking boxes. It’s about making sure your infrastructure is prepared to deliver fast, secure, and resilient applications—without overengineering or overspending. From availability to security and automation, the ADC sits at the core of how your service behaves under pressure. In this guide, we’ll walk through…

New Approaches to Modern Application Delivery
The way organizations deliver their applications has changed radically in recent years. While the primary focus used to be ensuring high availability and traffic balancing, current priorities are centered on guaranteeing resilience, automating processes, continuous integration, and more efficient management. This shift is driven by the adoption of more complex architectures, such as microservices and…

