Apache just announced Apache Spark 2.3. It is the fourth release in the 2.x line. It’s not just the point release you might expect with a few minor upgrades and improvements; instead, it ships with over 1,000 changes from the
Varnish Software, a long-time leader in caching software and digital content delivery, recently unveiled a new package for streaming content, the Varnish Streaming Server. The Swedish-headquartered firm has been providing streaming solutions for a number of years to various global
GoCache is an up-and-coming CDN based in Brazil currently focused on the Brazilian market, particularly small and medium-sized businesses. It was founded in 2013. GoCache spent several years concentrated on building their platform after receiving seed funding from VCs. They
The Akamai Q4 2017 security report from its SIRT (Security Intelligence Response Team) is the latest in its in-depth security reports quarterly on The State of the Internet. Their report on Q4 2017 highlights various continued threats and identifies several new ones.
Earlier this month, CDN77 introduced Live Streaming CDN, a live streaming CDN platform, which combines encoding, transcoding and security layers with “low-latency and buffer-free global video delivery”. It has a capacity of 7 Tbps with 18 PoP in Europe and
At the end of November, Baidu quietly launched a peer-to-peer (P2P) CDN called Baidu Jinkuang, which lets users exchange idle bandwidth and storage for cash rewards. Unlike Xunlei’s cloud computing product built on blockchain, OneCloud, Baidu P2P CDN is not
SecurityTrails was founded in 2017 by CEO Chris Ueland; formerly the CEO for MaxCDN. They have twelve employees and are growing. Their customers include PricewaterhouseCoopers and Microsoft. Their stated mission is to “make the biggest treasure-trove of cyber intelligence data
Over the last decade, there has been a growth in patent-holding plaintiffs known as non-practising entities, or what critics prefer to call a patent troll. Blackbird Technologies, a recently founded Boston and Chicago-based firm who have amassed a portfolio of
MPEG founder and chairman, Leonardo Chiariglione, states on his blog that the current business model for MPEG is broken, writing a post “A crisis, the causes and a solution” in response to the “rumours spreading about a presumed ‘MPEG-video collapse’”.
LinkedIn has been working with multi-CDN’s for more than five years. But now that the whole world is moving to IPv6, LinkedIn is working with the sames CDN’s in moving from IPv4 to IPv6. Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is
Akamai just reported Q4-2017 revenue of $663M and 2017 revenue of $2.5B. The Cloud Security Solutions division, which is the fastest growing line within Akamai, reported revenue of $482M for 2017. The biggest surprise – Akamai recorded a $52M restructuring
Kuaishou, a Chinese live-video streaming start-up, whose name means “fast hand” in Chinese, is nearing the end of a $1 billion funding round led by Tencent, and has plans to list later this year, according to Nasdaq. Kuaishou is emerging
Varnish Software has just launched a new cache encryption service called Varnish Total Encryption, which aims to prevent cache leaks. At its simplest, cache is a small amount of fast memory, which holds commonly accessed data and instructions so that
Cloudflare just announced a new service, Cloudflare Access, what it bills as “a perimeter-less access control solution for cloud and on-premise applications”. It is modelled on Google’s BeyondCorp; however, rather than just serving Google’s employees (the initial intent behind BeyondCorp),
Limelight Networks and Tencent Cloud recently announced a major reseller agreement that radically expands access to each company’s services. Limelight will offer its CDN customers in China its service through Tencent Cloud. Reciprocally, Tencent will offer CDN services from Limelight
