Just two days ago, we covered Wowza’s release of their new Ultra-Low Latency streaming service. Today, Wowza has just announced another major release: the Wowza ClearCaster, which brings Wowza’s streaming technology to Facebook Live users. Wowza designed the ClearCaster in
PacketZoom has announced Mobile IQ, a new end-to-end Application Performance Management and Optimization (APMo) platform for mobile apps that can be paired with PacketZoom’s existing Mobile Expresslane technology. The complete suite of tools allows developers to analyze, troubleshoot, control and
Netflix’s Cloud Security team has been a major player in the open source community for years now. Some of cloud security’s most vexing problems have actually been ironed out on GitHub and through OSS experiments. To commemorate Netflix’s third year
Wowza Media Systems has just announced their new Ultra Low Latency streaming service for their Wowza Streaming Cloud platform. The low latency service, built on Microsoft Azure, is designed to significantly reduce buffer and lag times, ensure consistent streaming delivery,
Limelight recently rolled out EdgeQuery Analytics, a new suite of tools for businesses that record, manage, and interpret website traffic and user data patterns. EdgeQuery’s real-time aggregation software can help businesses better understand how their users interact with their websites,
Google has announced a new firewall feature for app developers and administrators using Google’s Cloud Platform. Developers can now allow or block access to specific IP addresses by writing rules that outline how the firewall will function. The new feature
Elastic is an Amsterdam-based company that has experienced rapid growth in recent years and has received $104MM+ in funding). Its ElasticSearch search engine (the company’s namesake) allows businesses to store, search, and analyze data in real-time and rapidly glean actionable
Zenedge, a leading provider of cloud-based, artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions continues to experience rapid growth. This year they announced the addition of three new solutions, Zenedge API Security, Zenedge Bot Manager and Zenedge Malware Protection to their already robust suite
Earlier this month, the live-streaming company Red5 announced that they would partner with Limelight Networks to optimize and expand distribution of media to larger audiences. Their partnership combines Red5’s WebRTC-based low-latency streaming for real-time video delivery with Limelight’s extensive content
This week, Amazon Web Services introduced Macie, a fully managed security service for S3 that uses machine-learning algorithms to automatically identify and protect sensitive data against data leaks and unauthorized access.
As various complex functions such as data compression and cryptography are increasingly performed on data packets, network traffic throughput can suffer. One means of increasing throughput and avoiding latency is through the use of open-source packet processors and various packet-processing
ThousandEyes, a San Francisco based startup with offices in Austin and London, was founded in 2010 with a game-changing approach to network monitoring: creating software that could provide insight into not only their customers’ internal networks, but the entire Internet.
Last month, Google announced the release of a new congestion control algorithm, TCP BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time), for Google Cloud Platform. By eschewing loss-based congestion control for a system that considers the speed at which the network
Major breakthroughs in network platform innovation continue at a rapid pace, with GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) leading the charge. These innovations are occurring in different market segments including fiber network technology, hardware, WiFi, 5G, GPON, WDM, mobile and
Yesterday, Cato Networks expanded its SD-WAN service with the addition of a context-aware IPS (Intrusion Prevention System). The managed system provides IPS inspection as a service, using big data from the Cato Cloud to update new signatures and software patches
