Over the last ten years, Cloudflare has become an important part of Internet infrastructure, powering websites, APIs, and web services to help make them more secure and efficient. The Internet is growing in terms of its capacity and the number of people using it and evolving in terms of its design and functionality. As a…
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Today we’re excited to announce the Cloudflare Data Localization Suite, which helps businesses get the performance and security benefits of Cloudflare’s global network, while making it easy to set rules and controls at the edge about where their data is stored and protected.The Data Localization Suite is available now as an add-on for Enterprise customers.Cloudflare’s…
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The first phase of the Internet lasted until the early 1990s. During that time it was created and debugged, and grew globally. Its growth was not hampered by concerns about data security or privacy. Until the 1990s the race was for connectivity.Connectivity meant that people could get online and use the Internet wherever they were.…
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Tomorrow kicks off Cloudflare’s Privacy & Compliance Week. Over the course of the week, we’ll be announcing ways that our customers can use our service to ensure they are in compliance with an increasingly complicated set of rules and laws around the world.Early in Cloudflare’s history, when Michelle, Lee, and I were talking about the…
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Tomorrow kicks off Cloudflare’s Privacy & Compliance Week. Over the course of the week, we’ll be announcing ways that our customers can use our service to ensure they are in compliance with an increasingly complicated set of rules and laws around the world.Early in Cloudflare’s history, when Michelle, Lee, and I were talking about the…
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Our fleet of over 200 locations comprises various generations of servers and routers. And with the ever changing landscape of services and computing demands, it’s imperative that we manage power in our data centers right. This blog is a brief Electrical Engineering 101 session going over specifically how power distribution units (PDU) work, along with…
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Leaders from across the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for Cloudflare’s Birthday Week, helping us celebrate Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Many of them touched on the importance of diversity and making the Internet accessible to everyone.Here are some of the highlights.On the value of soliciting feedbackSelina TobaccowalaChief Digital Officer at Openfit, Co-Founder of GixoFormer…
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In this blog post we will discuss how we made our infrastructure DNS zone more reliable by using multiple primary nameservers to leverage our own DNS product running on our edge as well as a third-party DNS provider.Authoritative NameserversYou can think of an authoritative nameserver as the source of truth for the records of a…
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