Today, Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Apps, an open platform that showcases apps for distribution to the over six million websites on Cloudflare’s network. Using the Cloudflare Apps platform, website owners can browse, preview and install apps instantly and without the need
Cloudflare is attempting to take on the problem of routing optimization with the rollout of Argo, a virtual backbone for the Internet that leverages the information gathered from its global PoPs to dramatically improve performance. With Argo’s released in mid-May, Cloudflare
Today, CloudFlare announced the release of Orbit, a game-changing IoT security service that will allow manufacturers to deploy patches and block vulnerabilities across all IoT devices simultaneously.
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
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.
The content delivery and edge security industry is experiencing strong growth. One important market indicator is the growth in infrastructure capacity, as in network and server capacity. At the end of Q1-2017, four of the largest CDNs now have a
By now, the whole world knows about Cloudbleed, so no need to regurgitate the known. However, lets read between the lines. First, it’s not all bad news. The leak of “encryption keys, cookies, passwords, chunks of post data and even
In a previous post, we explained how Akamai could hurt the competition and capture market share by dropping its data transfer prices to $1/TB. The question is can Akamai’s business model thrive at $1/TB for data transfer? There are two schools
It’s kind of crazy but one move from Akamai can 1) increase Akamai’s CDN global market share by a hefty margin 2) kill AWS’s dreams of being a CDN juggernaut and 3) make Matthew Prince (CEO CloudFlare) a genius –
Amazon has unveiled AWS Shield, a DDoS protection service for apps running on AWS, putting the largest public cloud in competition with the likes of CloudFlare. It’s free and automatically available for web apps that run on Amazon’s cloud computing
We have a few more predictions to go for 2017. Next up is Google and CloudFlare. We predict that Google will acquire CloudFlare in 2017 for $1.5B to $3B. CloudFlare has raised a total of $182M and Google was an
We are going to make some bold predictions for 2017. First, let’s look back at 2016 – this year was the most innovative period in history, thanks to the convergence of 1) CDN + Cloud Security 2) CDN + WAN
The Mirai botnet made global headlines when it knocked out Dyn DNS and took many prominent websites offline on the East Coast. Now there’s a botnet powered by a new malware that has been unleashed upon the West Coast of
Of the 4 million+ websites that use CloudFlare, nearly all (98.01%) use IPv6. This has been a long time coming, since IPv6 first debuted commercially a decade ago in 2006 as the 2.0 version of IPv4. In order to move
A recent Mozilla telemetry graph measure that approximately half of all traffic in transit is now encrypted, a more than 10% jump from last December. And on October 14, Josh Aas, director of Internet Security Research Group and formerly Mozilla, confirmed on
