Edgio, Lumen (CDN), and StackPath are no more. One important segment of the CDN industry has nearly collapsed. The last domino standing is Fastly. If it exits the CDN market, the collapse will be complete, and a new competitive landscape
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
Mid-last year, AWS information security executive Stephen Schmidt unveiled AWS’s open source implementation of SSL/TLS network encryption protocols, dubbed Amazon s2n, a sleek, nimble, and more intuitive means of encrypting a network.
Section.io, a startup founded in 2012, is a pioneer in the emerging DIY CDN (“DIYs” ) sector, enabling enterprises of all sizes to build localized or global content delivery functionality into their web application test and production environments. Prior to
It’s interesting how one single action, especially one that flies under the radar of an entire community can be such a disruptive move that it will force a complete re-alignment within a sector. This one action occurred last week and
The competitive landscape has shifted significantly in the last week with the introduction of Google CDN. The severity of the threat that Google CDN poses to Akamai and some Pure-play CDNs is of nightmare proportions. In this brief, we’ll discuss
In October of 2015, Amazon introduced two new security features: AWS WAF and Amazon Inspector. Amazon Inspector is a web application scanner that scans for vulnerabilities within the AWS environment. From a competitive standpoint, the Inspector tool is one of
It’s been a few days since Amazon reported Q3 2015 earnings, and the financial results for AWS were staggering. Amazon defines AWS as “compute, storage, database, and other AWS service offerings”. As we can see in the numbers below, AWS
At one time, the market for technical appliances such as firewalls, Application Delivery Controllers, Load Balancers and DDoS Mitigation hardware was the “in” thing to do, and many folks made a great living at it. Unfortunately, all highly profitable business
According to MarketsandMarkets, the CDN market is “expected to grow from $3.71B in 2014 to $12.16B by 2019” at an annual compound growth rate of 26.8%. If that’s the case, than Akamai represents 53% of the market in 2014, based
Here she comes, Amazon is going to bring fury to the DDoS Mitigation market, and turn it upside down. By default, since Akamai is one of the largest providers in the world of DDoS protection, they will feel first impact.
Although there are 40+ CDNs in a very competitive industry, no two CDNs are identical. When we look deep inside each CDN, their DNA is vastly different. Akamai, Verizon, Level 3, Netflix, Comcast, Telefonica, Limelight, Yottaa, ChinaCache, Instart Logic, MaxCDN,
Akamai and Amazon are similar in a few ways. Akamai dominates the CDN industry with about 53% market share. Amazon Web Services dominates the cloud industry with 30% market share. Each has three fierce competitors. Also, Akamai has a CDN
The CDN Ecosystem continues to flourish, as new players enter the industry with unique features and business models. The latest trio of entrants are the RAN based CDN innovators. They include Rev Software, Twin Prime and Kwicr. Rev Software has
Is Amazon really gunning for Akamai? According to an Oppenheimer analyst, possibly. Akamai’s stock price has been trending upward for the last week, and its stock price closed at $71/share on Friday, valuing them at $12.7B. At the other end,
