The free video-hosting platform Vimeo, has adopted Multi-Regional Google Cloud Storage, one of the new storage classes that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently unveiled during its major refresh of Google Cloud Storage platform. Crucially, GCP has been integrated with Fastly’s
Fastly has unveiled its Managed CDN, which can be deployed on top of customers’ existing private networks, is dedicated solely for their use, and delivered as a fully managed service. Its CDN technology comes with Dynamic Site Acceleration, request collapsing,
This election cycle’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was among the most highly anticipated in all of American history. It drew a massive global audience, with ad buyers predicting a marked 20-50% increase in viewership compared
After the two massive DDoS attacks last week, it’s time to re-think the DDoS Mitigation architecture strategy. Brian Krebs got hit with a 620Gbps DDoS attack and OVH with a 799Gbps attack. The interesting part – the 799Gbps attack was
In our quest for knowledge and insight, we’re going to start posting key videos that highlight important challenges in our industry – the industry being CDN, Cloud Security and Infrastructure. This presentation is from our friends over at Fastly. Tyler
Fastly Introduces Cutting Edge Next-Gen Control Panel Fastly’s next generation control panel is a response to the need for complete visibility and instant feedback on applications, allowing customers to respond and innovate instantaneously. As its customer base has increased and
Fastly Now Offering Service and Support Plans Fastly, the CDN that markets itself as “built by developers, for developers,” has now released several options for service and support plans. These plans aim to help companies ease the transition to Fastly
The ELK Stack is a new system that offers a way to take data from any source on your network, analyze it and visualize it for your convenience, all in realtime. Recently, it’s been gaining traction as a new leader
The ecosystem was first introduced to the makeup of the CDN SuperPoP when Fastly published their hardware specs for everyone to see. For many, what was once an extremely well guarded secret was no longer a secret, and some CDNs
Here’s the latest CDN Ecosystem diagram representing the movers and shakers within our industry. The diagram is an illustration of all the players who participate in the industry in one form or another, and includes the Pure-plays, Telco CDNs, Security
When most people hear the term “networking,” they think of cables, routers and switches. Every CDN out there does networking, building out their infrastructure to build out their network. But with Fastly, they do a different kind of networking, and
Cachefly CDN Incorporates Varnish Plus Cachefly, the first CDN to use exclusively TCP anycast for routing as opposed to DNS load balancing, has added Varnish Plus to its network. Varnish specializes in caching and uses open-source software to do so.
On February 25, Fastly shared the first part of their speaker series on security with Alex Pinto, Chief Data Scientist of Niddel and leader of the MLSec Project. The topic of his presentation was data science machine learning and security.
Akamai, the CDN industry juggernaut, has been the dominant CDN for years now, with almost two decades of experience under their belt. And in that time they developed a markup language Edge Side Includes (ESI) to help with the issue
Some folks peg the CDN market at $4B to $5B presently, which is likely to grow to $20B by 2020 Cisco VNI predicts that we’ll enter the zettabyte territory by 2019 Some folks believe the CDN market is growing at
