Today, Wowza announced updates to their portfolio that will allow for dramatically expanded global delivery with Wowza Streaming Engine software and Wowza Streaming Cloud Service. The updates will allow broadcasters more options to scale streams and deliver them to global audiences
Live from NAB: Google and AWS are selling CDN services to a handful of companies for $0.002/GB ($2/TB). In other words, they are practically giving away CDN services to capture high-volume CDN media accounts. Google is aggressively pursing these accounts
Today, Dolby Laboratories and Verizon Digital Media Services announced Verizon is integrating encoding and playback of Dolby Audio into its digital media platform. The feature will be available as an add-on for the Uplynk Video Streaming service so that users
This week, Limelight announced the introduction of two new additions to its Cloud Security services: Security Alert, which provides alert notifications, DDoS detection, and configuration to protect sites against large attacks, and WAF Express, a security alert and website protection
This week, Cloudflare unveiled SSL for SaaS companies, a wholesale SSL solution that will allow SaaS companies to extend Cloudflare benefits to their customers on their own domain without the need for engineering or support work or any extensive customer
Fastly announced today the release of their new edge cloud platform, which provides application delivery, scalability, and security at the edge of the network. Built into the platform are three products Fastly is also announcing today–the Fastly Image Optimizer, Load
The CDN market share for 2017 is broken down below. Going forward, it’s going to be a little more challenging estimating market share due to converging business models and industries. Today, there are three clearly identifiable segments in the CDN
Last week, PacketZoom released a case study on the integration of their Mobile Expresslane with a mobile shopping app for Sephora, one of the leading brands globally for beauty retail. As a result of the integration, 70% of mobile disconnections
The concept behind the new Akamai business model is revolutionary. Although it’s still in infancy now, once the concept matures its going to disrupt multiple industries and companies including the SD-WAN market, Viptela, CloudGenix, Aryaka, Symantec, Palo Alto, Zscaler, and
In the not-to-distant future, whether its 10 years or 15 years from now, high performance bare-metal servers will be replaced by affordable quantum computers. In a decade, a 2-U quantum computer is likely to outperform the Google data center of
The fast growing ZENEDGE is increasing network capacity by 10x due to strong customer growth. In addition, they are expanding the PoP count across North America, Europe and APAC. The solution set of DDoS Mitigation, Bot Mitigation and WAF running
Edge Security CDN (WAF + DDoS + Bot Mitigation) is the fastest growing segment in the CDN industry. Akamai security solutions is likely to reach $450M to $550M in 2017. CloudFlare is likely to generates $100M+ in sales this year.
Akamai presented its state of the union during the investor summit earlier today. As always, the metrics presented are fascinating and important because they give us an in-depth pulse on the Internet and their business model. One of the most
As real-time data processing at the edge becomes an increasing necessity, one company that is certain to attract attention is Iguazio and their Enterprise Data Cloud, a data platform that serves and consumes data with real-time analytics. Founded in 2014,
Akamai just acquired Soasta and the industry impact is monumental. Don’t look at the acquisition at face value, because everything Akamai does is strategic with a long term objective. The best way to analyze this specific event – is to
