Bizety is presenting the next update to the popular CDN Ecosystem diagram. The space continues to evolve as new start-ups enter it. The collapsing of the Security and CDN sectors are blurring the lines further between CDNs and non-CDNs, as
Azure CDN, Akamai, EdgeCast, CloudFlare, Sitelock, Zenedge, Level 3, Distil Networks, Fireblade, F5 Networks, Radware, and dozens more offer DDoS Mitigation Services. The DDoS services include everything from the basic Layer 3/4 protection, to advanced protection against multi-vector attacks across
Level 3 has done a decent job offering network based security for the last several years. At one time, they resold Prolexic DDoS Mitigation Services to its large customer base. However, with Akamai acquiring Prolexic, that relationship is certain to
When Akamai announces that CDN prices are under pressure, does that mean that prices for the entire CDN industry are under pressure? We have to take into account that Akamai’s prices tend to be higher than the competition, just like
The cloud price wars continue between Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Recently, Google dropped their prices by a whopping 10% from $.07/hour to $.063/hour for the n1-standard-1 US configuration. Amazon and Microsoft will follow suit. In two weeks, one of the
CloudFlare has just announced a game changing CDN feature called Keyless SSL, that’s going to alter the CDN landscape. Just kidding, it’s not. Matthew Prince (Prince) is a CDN PR machine. For us in the industry, it’s cool because we’re
Watch out Amazon, here comes LeaseWeb with a vengeance. LeaseWeb, based in Amsterdam is the latest cloud compute service provider to enter the CDN industry. They started off in 1997 as a hosting company, then evolved into a public/private cloud
What is the CDN going to look like in 10 years? That’s a really tough question to answer, but let’s go Elon Musk, and give it a shot. To start, let’s throw out Moore’s Law, and any other laws relevant
Bizety is releasing the next update to the CDN Ecosystem Diagram. The purpose of the diagram is to illustrate and group CDNs into areas of specialization, in order to help readers compare the differences between CDNs. For example, Incapsula and
Over the last three weeks Limelight Network’s (LLNW) stock has steadily declined, dropping from $3/share to $2.78/share. In a Seeking Alpha article published on July 23rd, an analyst named Adam gave his reasons why LLNW will eventually bottom out at
Solutionary, a leading MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider) owned by NTT, reported in its Q2 – 2014 Threat Intelligence Report, that Amazon hosted 41% of the malware it detected through its SERT honeynet network. The honeynet is a honeypot network
Rackspace offers a robust suite of cloud services, including compute, storage, application and database hosting, load balancing, Colo, DNS, and a few more. They offer some of the products that Amazon and Microsoft offer, and all of the products that
Once upon a time, Rackspace was the leader in hosting and manage services. In 2013, they earned $1.53B in revenue, up from $1.3B in 2012, and $1B in 2011. Regardless of their revenue growth, Rackspace stock sank almost 50% in
Akamai, the largest CDN on the planet, never envisioned a bookstore encroaching on its turf. Then again, neither did HP, IBM, EMC, Oracle or Dell. Amazon dominates the markets for cloud computing and cloud storage. It’s trying to do the
The CDN industry has several business models in play. I personally see four prevailing business models. Each one is different from an operations, sales, engineering, and ordering standpoint. Here is a snapshot of the four business models: Amazon CloudFront &
