Last Friday, Fastly announced it had filed an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares that will be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been set. Fastly is expected
Over the last seven years, the technology stack (“stack”) in the CDN PoP has matured. The evolution of the stack can be broken down into three phases: basic, advanced, and intelligent. The basic stack involves caching and content delivery, video
The Stateful CDN is a model that incorporates a distributed database into the technology stack. The purpose of the CDN database is to provide state to stateless services such as edge functions, edge containers, and serverless. Cloudflare is the first
The industry’s quest to develop the next billion-dollar product is in play. The last product to transform the CDN industry was cloud security. Now it’s on to the next idea. Some believe edge compute is the next billion-dollar product. It
The dot com period was the wild wild west of the 90’s. Fortunes were made and lost. Startups exploded on the scene, only to go bust later. Out of the ashes, Google and Akamai were born. Larry Ellison was in
Recently, there’s been some interesting news coming out of the public domain regarding the actions of a few major players. Some of the news is laughable, some of it sad, and some of it makes your head spin when trying
Late last month, Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) introduced waflz, its new global CDN Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF acts as the first line of defense in network security by monitoring all incoming and outgoing network traffic, and deciding
Fastly just announced its partnership with Microsoft Azure. It involves Fastly’s integration with a range of Azure services, such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure Event Grid, and Azure Data Explorer (ADX, formerly known as project “Kusto”), a big data cloud-based
At the end of November, Fastly announced the launch of Fastly Labs, “a hub of in-progress projects and experimental ideas we’re opening up to the developer community at large”, and shared three new projects with the community: Terrarium (a multi-language
Earlier this week, StackPath announced StackPath EdgeEngine, a new serverless computing service designed to allow developers to run code at the edge without the need for a server, virtual machine or container. “The edge is the new frontier in cloud
Earlier this month, Ericsson launched Edge Gravity, a service that offers delivery at the edge via linking up data centers with the last-mile networks of over 80 global partners, including telcos, cable operators and mobile service providers. As the demand
Cloudflare’s serverless cloud computing program is called Workers. Unlike most cloud computing programs, Workers is unique in that it doesn’t draw on containers or virtual machines to run. Instead, it deploys V8: Isolates. The team at Cloudflare hails this as
Over the last couple of months, Google and Microsoft have each officially launched new game streaming services. Each is still under development; however, tech advances within each project could ultimately impact regular video streaming as well as potentially changing the
Limelight Networks recently launched Limelight Realtime Video Streaming, an industry-first sub-second, globally scalable live video streaming solution that is supported by major browsers and devices. It also supports integrated realtime data, enabling the creation of interactive live online experiences that
Webscale Networks is an eCommerce cloud startup that is growing rapidly. We recently spoke to CEO Sonal Puri and Shehzad Karkhanawala, Director of Marketing about the company’s rapid growth, the cloud as the natural home for eCommerce and Webscale’s role
