SDN is a tidal wave in the making, and just the way MySQL decimated Oracle RDBMS in the web database business, SDN is likely to do the same to Cisco’s switching business. Many experts state that large enterprises won’t shift
Akamai reigns supreme in the CDN Industry. However, in the Cloud, Networking, Security, and Virtualization sectors, Akamai is an afterthought. AWS, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and VMWare always lead in the conversations, since they are the behemoths of their respective
Akamai is going through a major transformation of sorts, mainly in the innovation department. Not that they were ever behind, but they have now gone to market with a whole new slate of feature-sets, including one which is tailored to
100% Bare Metal CDN Google, Facebook, and Amazon are open source machines using bare metal hardware throughout their infrastructure. However, they got company in the next generation CDN. The infrastructure for the large CDN and start-up CDN slightly differ in
NSS Labs vs. Palo Alto Networks NSS Labs Inc. is causing a splash, once again, with its recent release of a new report concerning Next-Generation Firewalls. One vendor in particular was extremely displeased with their results, and angry enough to
On October 9, 2013, Cisco and Akamai announced a partnership that would incorporate Akamai’s CDN caching technology into the Cisco ISR router line. They billed it as the “ worlds first integrated Application Optimization Solution for Hybrid WANs”. Fast forward
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort driven by a dozen volunteers. They are responsible for developing, maintaining, securing, and managing the OpenSSL software stack. As everyone found out last week, their work is extremely important to all businesses transacting
Akamai and Cisco formed a partnership in October 2013, to integrate Akamai functionality into the Cisco branch routers, thus extending the Akamai CDN to the last mile & first mile. It’s a very innovative project. However, Aryaka beat them to
