Who in the world could have ever imagined that a startup CDN catering to the SME /SMB marketplace, and providing free CDN service as one of it options could be more valuable than Akamai one day? Certainly not Akamai. Earlier
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Akamai vs Zscaler – finally we have two cool companies who’ll be going into hand-to-hand combat starting in 2016, as the once two separate market segments collapse into each other – Cloud Security and CDN. In acquiring Bloxx, Akamai spoke
The time has finally arrived where we can officially carve out a new market segment called Edge Security CDN. The Edge Security CDN segment started when Akamai acquired Prolexic back in February 2014, having matured over the last few months,
Who knew Matthew Prince had it in him, because CloudFlare just reeled in a big fish, more like a whale. Ben Fathi, ex-CTO of VMWare has joined CloudFlare as Head of Engineering. Prior to VMWare, Ben worked as SVP of
Google Capital invested $25M in Zscaler, a leading cloud security company that secures more than 15M users around the world. Gene Frantz, Partner at Google Capital stated “we’re are big believers in two unstoppable technology trends that Zscaler is riding
If Google really wanted to, they could probably kill two birds with one stone. First, they could radically transform the competitive landscape within the security industry. Next, they could reduce the impact of DDoS Attacks, Bot Attacks and Malware by
The CDN market continues to expand – in the next month or two, we are going to introduce four more CDNs. One is focused on video delivery, the other in Edge Security, the third serves a specific region, and the
Good to know we’re not crazy after all. What a difference a year makes. On Nov 10, 2014, we published an outrageous idea on “What Happens if FireEye buys Fastly to Counter Palo Alto Networks”. A day after, we published
We live in some interesting times. Who would have thought we’d see another billion dollar CDN besides Akamai in 2015. CloudFlare is a billion dollar CDN, and we can say it confidently. No other CDN comes close to a billion
On October 11, 2014, we wrote a post on why Google should create the “Great Firewall of the World” – primarily because they are the Internet and generate vast fortunes from it. Then on December 2014, we wrote another post
Before we heap praise on CloudFlare, its important to note a few things before we do so, so we have context. CloudFlare was the last company on our mind. In fact, we weren’t even going to write about them for
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Matthew “Prince said he blushed when he first saw” the term sheet offered by Fidelity / Microsoft / Google / Qualcomm / Baidu pre-investment. If we were in his shoes, we would more than blush, we’d have a heart attack
When it comes to surprises, no one beats CloudFlare, the king of buzz, controversy and freedom of speech. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few days, the big news is that CloudFlare formed a partnership
