{"id":666,"date":"2023-10-01T00:20:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milanoventures.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2023-10-16T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T06:16:00","slug":"what-is-worlddirector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milanoventures.com\/what-is-worlddirector\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WorldDirector?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_dmb_breadcrumbs _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_dmb_breadcrumbs][et_pb_blurb title=&#8221;What is WorldDirector?&#8221; alt=&#8221;WorldDirector globally distributed cloud and CDN&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.22.2&#8243; header_level=&#8221;h1&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; max_width_tablet=&#8221;50px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>WorldDirector<\/strong> is a fully managed Internet cloud technology used to create <em>globally distributed<\/em>, <em>geographically load-balanced<\/em> private and public <em>clouds<\/em> or<strong><em> Content Delivery Networks<\/em> (CDN)<\/strong> designed to accelerate content from enterprise (<strong>private cloud<\/strong>) and <strong>public cloud<\/strong> data centres to remote clients at the edge of the Internet. WorldDirector is the first-ever technology of this kind, developed in 1994 and deployed since 1995.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, the WorldDirector design&#8217;s original aim was to overcome the effects of a massive earthquake that would keep Silicon Valley servers out of reach for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WorldDire<\/strong><strong>ctor<\/strong> has evolved into a modular product and is offered as a service (PaaS, IaaS), optionally with open source or custom applications (SaaS). It also includes <em>content acceleration<\/em> by HTTP compression, <em>antivirus, anti-malware, anti-trojans, anti-worm, anti-crypto lockers filters and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denial-of-service_attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DDOS<\/a> (Distributed Denial Of Service) protection<\/em> <em>local<\/em> and <em>global load balancing, intrinsic disaster recovery <\/em>by active and passive data duplication across several data-centres. WorldDIrector may also be used to provide an effective and inexpensive solution to <em>disaster recovery<\/em> and can be bundled to offer cloud services, such as hosting, colocation, email services, DNS, data archives, backups, and audio and video streaming.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_668\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-image-668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milanoventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ist-prize.jpg\" alt=\"WorldDirector was nominated for the IST Prize\" width=\"130\" height=\"192\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IST Prize nomination<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2003, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/news\/rcn\/19045_en.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">European IST prize<\/a> selected WorldDirector as a &#8220;European IST Prize Nominee&#8221;. The European IST Prize was the most distinguished award for innovative European IT products. Selection criteria for the prize included technical excellence, creative content, potential market impact, capacity to generate employment, contribution to the acceptance and understanding of IST in society, and likely social impact.<\/p>\n<p>From the product perspective, WorldDirector ensures that Internet connectivity is the <strong>most <\/strong><strong>efficient<\/strong> and <strong>reliable<\/strong> on the market at the <strong>best cost of ownership<\/strong>. WorldDirector can enable any site or Internet application. All that is needed is that one of our Linux devices containing WorldDirector hardware and software is placed close to the customer&#8217;s server and\/or at the ISP&#8217;s Web farm. WorldDirector does not require any &#8216;extra&#8217; software installed on the Client software or the client-server side. There is <strong>no &#8216;Plug-in&#8217;<\/strong> at the server or client end, nor any modification to the server application needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WorldDirector<\/strong> is currently available under license or as a <strong>fully managed service<\/strong>, including hardware and software to install a complete WorldDirector CDN solution. It is open to host end-user applications, ISPs, and corporate accounts. WorldDirector is offered at Wornex data centres in Europe, the USA and Asia (including as an option AWS, Google and Azure cloud locations) and provides service to 300+ websites, B2B &amp; B2C applications, portals and streaming services on behalf of customers in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the USA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1759 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milanoventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WorldDirector-multi-cloud-globally-distributed-cloud-architecture-300x300.png\" alt=\"WorldDirector as globally distributed , self resilient multicloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Which<\/strong><strong> innovative features does WorldDirector provide?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In 2015, WorldDirector was re-developed into a modular product and included the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Edge caching<\/strong> for Internet servers and applications, regardless of protocol (HTTP, FTP, TCP\/IP, UDP, etc.);<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multimedia streaming (audio &amp; video) enabler<\/strong> from multiple locations to bring multimedia content close to the edge of the Internet and to the end-user;<\/li>\n<li><strong>HTTP content acceleratio<\/strong>n via standard IETF Content-Encoding to any Web site, regardless of the server&#8217;s operating system, HTTP origin server or type of Internet application;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Static and dynamic web serv<\/strong><strong>er accelerator<\/strong>: adds scalability at a lower cost to any web portal or application. Offers more than 40 times increased performance for dynamic portals, with more than 200 concurrent accesses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global and local load balancing<\/strong>: this will automatically reduce response time under high load and significantly reduce the burden on the origin website. Compared to other systems, more edge servers are not required. Each WorldDirector node&#8217;s cost is a fraction of the origin Web server in the case of large portals. For smaller sites, each WorldDirector node may be shared among different websites;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protection against Internet Worms &amp; DDOS<\/strong> by filtering undesired requests to the origin server, protecting <strong>cross<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>site<\/strong> scripting vulnerability and uploading <strong>malware<\/strong> to origin servers. This may be especially useful to avoid situations of network congestion and breakdowns such as those created by the internet worms, most types of attacks and similar;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic Disaster Recovery<\/strong> for any Web site, multimedia archive or FTP site: any content available via &#8220;GET&#8221; (including dynamic portals) may be made available from any WorldDirector node when the origin Web site is unavailable;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic configuration and de-configuration<\/strong> of each WorldDirector node when servers are down and up again. Any server can be brought down for maintenance, or any network segment can fail without disrupting service until at least one WorldDirector node is reachable. This mechanism is transparent to end-users, applications, and administrators. It does NOT depend on any master\/enslaved person and has NO central point of failure characteristics like similar cloud and CDN implementations. It also introduces no latency compared to other masters\/enslaved persons or star-centred solutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distributed email service<\/strong>: WorldDirector is also very effectively used to provide a redundant, globally distributed <strong>corporate email service<\/strong> (based on multiple geographically distributed SMTP &amp; MX servers), with DDOS, antivirus and spam protection that can sustain high traffic peaks and considerable server downtime with uninterrupted service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1760 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milanoventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WorldDirector-self-resilient-fully-managed-multicloud-architecture-300x300.png\" alt=\"Milano Ventures multicloud migration consulting\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>WorldDirector compared to other cloud and CDN solutions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Although Web accelerators, content caching devices, and multimedia streaming\/caching services have recently become available (or claim to be), no similar product or service is currently marketed, including all the features above.<\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, cloud solutions are delivered by a single data centre location, possibly using redundant hardware, but more often from a single site, network, or AS (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autonomous_system_%28Internet%29\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Autonomous System<\/a>), representing a single point of failure. <strong>However, WorldDirector<\/strong> provides services from <em>many different ASes<\/em>, <em>networks, and<\/em><em> geographical servers<\/em>\u00a0that operate as <em>autonomous nodes<\/em> in an <em>all-master<\/em> (<em>not<\/em> master-slave) configuration. It works effectively and transparently even if some servers or parts of the Internet are down or unreachable.<\/p>\n<p>Similar services offered by competitors may require modification of the Web site content to provide replication. Others sell devices that heavily depend on enslaver\/enslaved person or redirection mechanisms, may add latency and operate as a single point of failure, diminishing the whole system&#8217;s reliability in case of failures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WorldDirector<\/strong> is conceived as a turn-key system with full service, and it is 100% transparent to any application. WordlDirector does not require any modification to the origin web server, its pages or any of its applications) and clients (it does not require any additional software or plug-in). Additionally, the reliability of the WorldDirector system has allowed us to maintain a status of 100% <em>always available<\/em> since 1995 for many clients&#8217; websites and applications, even when one or more servers have been unavailable for hours or <em>days<\/em> for maintenance or due to faults either in the network, hardware or software.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WorldDirector is a fully managed Internet cloud technology used to create globally distributed, geographically load-balanced private and public clouds or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) designed to accelerate content from enterprise (private cloud) and public cloud data centres to remote clients at the edge of the Internet. 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