AWS Is Ramping Up Its DDoS Capabilities AWS is ramping up its DDoS capabilities, in which it details “best practices for DDoS resilience” in a white paper, aimed at enterprises with public-facing endpoints. A crucial factor in DDoS mitigation is
The rumor last week at Velocity was that F5 Networks was competing against security focused CDNs in accounts that were in need of DDoS Mitigation Services. The interesting part is not that they lost every single time, but that they’re
Velocity was a big hit for the CDN consumer and analyst. Two key takeaways – first, Silicon Valley is definitely the Disneyland for geeks of all ages, where one gets to exercise the brain muscles far into the imagination. Second,
We’re in the 3rd generation of DDoS Mitigation Services. The first gen DDoS Mitigation Services were defined by providers like Neustar, Prolexic and Verisign. Next, CDNs entered the landscape and were forced to offer DDoS Mitigation Services, due to the
Amazon, Microsoft and Google are doing to Rackspace what EdgeCast, Amazon and Incapsula are going to do to F5 Networks. The EdgeCast “Defend” Solution is everything that F5 Appliances are not: cloud based, unlimited scalability and global deployment in minutes.
Bizety continues to update the CDN Ecosystem Diagram as new information is received. Below is the latest visualization of CDN and CDN-like players in the Ecosystem. The purpose of the diagram is to illustrate where each company stands in the
It seems that F5 Networks is becoming more and more like a CDN of sorts. F5 develops appliances with features that mimic CDN functionality. Just like Akamai, F5 Networks offers global DNS services, WAF, load balancing and application acceleration services.
