2019 has turned out to be an epic year for the CDN industry. The top news, Cloudflare joins Akamai and Fastly as publicly-traded multi-billion dollar companies. In other news, some vendors are modernizing their tech stack, incorporating edge computing capabilities
Once a month, we’re going to send a newsletter that discusses hot buttons and rumors in the industry. We’ve learned from our mistakes that sometimes publishing content on certain topics on a popular blog is not a good idea. However,
The 4th edition CDN Landscape Report is now available. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the industry in 2019 and offers our views on where the market is headed in 2020 and beyond. For more details click here. Report Highlights
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
Thanks to all the customers who bought a copy of the 2016 CDN Landscape Report. In the report, we analyzed 48 companies involved in the global CDN industry, then broke down the market into 13 micro-segments. Thereafter, we created a
ChinaCache 2015 Earnings Down Due to Platform Issues ChinaCache has finally released its earnings for Q4 2015 and they show a decrease in both quarterly and yearly earnings. Quarterly, their revenue was down 8.1% yearly to $48.1 million and their
There’s no doubt that Netflix is at the top of their game, serving over 75 million global members. But the remarkable thing for the streaming industry is that they built the foundation of their site using open source code. This
In the last sixteen months, advances in server hardware and network infrastructure have helped CDNs provide better performance to their customers at lower price points. However, while these advances are a tremendous gift to providers and their customers, there is
On May 30th I wrote about PCI Compliant CDNs, and CloudFlare wasn’t on the list. Low and behold, a week later, CloudFlare announces they are now Level 1 PCI Compliant. Is that coincidence? Nah, I’m just on a roll 🙂
In the next few posts, I’ll be analyzing the Apple CDN build-out, discussing the challenges they face, the cost for POP build-outs, strategy, talent gap, and so on. According to Rayburn, Apple has been busy building out its CDN infrastructure
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
Instart Logic, armed with $43M in VC funding is on a collision course with Akamai in three areas: eCommerce, dynamic content acceleration and mobile content delivery. Overall, Akamai is at war with fifteen US based CDNs, and a host of
Below is a high level CDN concept that I refer to as the Akamai End-to-End Packet Security Flow. Its named after Akamai because they’re the only CDN that can afford to do it. The concept has four main pieces: Akamai
In 2012, Paul Sagan, former CEO of Akamai, set a $5B revenue milestone for 2020 that was a five-fold increase to the current annual revenue stream. A few months afterwards, he retires, silently telling himself “see ya Tom”. Tom Lieghton
Akamai has 100% penetration into the Fortune 1000, or very close to it. In addition, they have 100 of the top banks, government agencies, the largest media companies in the world, and so on. If you break down Akamai’s annual
