Over the last year, we’ve been tracking some of the new and exciting customer-facing features that CDNs have been rolling out, as CDNs continue the quest to differentiate themselves from forty other CDNs. Although the list below does not include
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
Lagrange Systems, a pioneer in Cloud-based Application Delivery, Load Balancing and Edge Security, is working hard to become the leader in the ADC market. Presently, Lagrange has thirty customers, with plenty more coming on board soon. Their CloudMaestro is a
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
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
Billion dollar Baby Here We Come Take two. It seems there is Hollywood #2 in Silicon Valley, and everyone is matching everyone in VC funding game. Here is the latest VC Matrix, which was incremented by $110M, thanks to our
Yottaa, the next generation CDN continues to make progress in all facets of the business, especially in the eCommerce market, where they’re winning over customers like Billabong, eBags and RVCA Apparel. Over the last six years, Yottaa has radically transformed
Recently, we had the opportunity to interview Bob Lento, CEO of Limelight Networks, and he gave us the current state of affairs. We discussed several topics, including growing the business, long term planning, product roadmap, the next steps on the
Here is the latest VC Funding matrix for the CDN industry. PubNub and ClearSky Data have been added to the matrix, bringing our total to fourteen startups. ClearSky is a SAN CDN that offers on-prem caching and cloud-based network storage,
Please make sure you sign up for our weekly newsletter. In this newsletter, we continue with Part 2, and discuss how CDNs can counter the threat posed by an Amazon DDoS Mitigation offering that spans 24 scrubbing centers, 12Tbps of
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.
The writing is on the wall, the DDoS Mitigation Market is about to be turned upside down. Some players will go out of business, and others will morph into new hybrids. That’s unfortunate, because Forrester just published an awesome guide
Currently, there are fifteen CDNs with DDoS Mitigation and /or WAF capabilities in the industry. Although all CDNs provide some form of basic DDoS Mitigation by default, where they can absorb large attacks via their massive global infrastructures, we differentiate
