2019 has turned out to be an epic year for the CDN industry. The top news, Cloudflare joins Akamai and Fastly as publicly-traded multi-billion dollar companies. In other news, some vendors are modernizing their tech stack, incorporating edge computing capabilities
Once a month, we’re going to send a newsletter that discusses hot buttons and rumors in the industry. We’ve learned from our mistakes that sometimes publishing content on certain topics on a popular blog is not a good idea. However,
Earlier today, Fastly announced earnings for the first time and the market reacted favorably, pushing up their stock price. Fastly joins Akamai and Limelight Networks as publicly-traded companies that compete in the market for application and content delivery, cloud security,
There’s been a lot of activity in the CDN industry over the last few weeks. We’re going to summarize the most interesting developments in our ecosystem. The two most shocking pieces: 1) the SEC charges Gladius Networks for not registering
Due to popular demand, we’re continuing with this series, publishing it quarterly. During our research efforts, we sometimes run into some interesting developments. When something happens to a startup in the CDN industry, we want to know about it, what
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 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
Sunnyvale, California-based Rafay Systems has recently launched as a “CDN for Microservices.” At its core, the Rafay platform is a global edge orchestration service that automates the placement and ongoing operations of latency and location-sensitive workloads closer to users and
According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report published this Wednesday, credential stuffing is occurring at an alarming rate and is on the rise worldwide. Akamai’s security team saw 30 billion malicious login attempts from the start of November
Akamai’s IoT Edge Connect is Beta Testing MQTT Akamai is beta testing MQTT for IoT Edge Connect, imagining “a hyperconnected world [that] makes every aspect of our lives better”. IoT Edge Connect provides the worldwide messaging network and storage infrastructure
Microsoft just launched the public preview of its own global CDN network, which is now available through ‘Azure CDN’. Azure customers will be able to use and deliver content from Microsoft’s own global CDN network. The Microsoft CDN will be
PerfOps, a startup that has recently launched an analytics platform, has benchmarked the network performance of some of the biggest names in content delivery. PerfOps, which has been in development for the last two and a half years, officially launched
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.
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
