Top Weekly Updates 1. Fastly Expands Operations Globally In keeping pace with expanding content delivery traffic, CDN provider Fastly has recently announced an addition of two new Points of Presence (POPs) in Brisbane and Perth, Australia and one a new
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
In a couple of weeks, Fastly will become a newly minted Tbps CDN. We’ve been tracking Fastly’s Bandwidth Speedometer for the last eighteen months. They have come a long way in such a short period of time. On June 15,
The $100M CDN Club is the most exclusive CDN Club in the world, and the only way in is to raise $100M or close to it. Not even CloudFlare who plans on going IPO in 2017 at a multi- billion
The CDN industry has taken a turn for the dramatic, as Fastly raised a monster VC round bringing its total to $130M. Today, Fastly is the #1 CDN in terms of money raised, followed by Aryaka Networks and Instart Logic.
Fastly is killing it, not only in the performance metrics, but also in money raised, adding a cool $75M to the war chest, bringing their total to $130M. The funds will be used to expand the global workforce, and build
1. HP and Akamai Wins $469M Content Delivery Services Contract from DoD HP won a $469M contract from the Department of Defense to provide Global Content Delivery Services to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The estimated completion date for
Fastly Will Soon Be In the Tbps Club Fastly, the inventor of the SuperRack is not only one the fastest performing CDNs on the planet, but also likely the fastest growing CDN in the bandwidth metric. The bandwidth metric (95/5%)
It’s been nine months since our last interview with Per Buer, founder of Varnish Software. Varnish Software is one of leading global caching platforms, powering millions of websites and thousands of well known online brands. A lot has happened in
It looks like Microsoft has in thrown the towel to build out its CDN, and will instead rely on 3rd party CDNs like Verizon Edgecast for content delivery. However, this move is likely to impact Apple more than it will
The cloud compute and cloud storage industry are in for a big surprise. Is it possible the CDN Edge is going to overtake the cloud compute and cloud storage industry in the next decade? The trend has started, and the
100% Bare Metal CDN Google, Facebook, and Amazon are open source machines using bare metal hardware throughout their infrastructure. However, they got company in the next generation CDN. The infrastructure for the large CDN and start-up CDN slightly differ in
Akamai vs Fastly SDN Business Models In this analysis, we’ll compare the Akamai+Juniper SDN offering to a start-up CDN+SDN offering. For this example, we’ll use Fastly, since they are one of a handful of start-up CDNs that support video streaming
On October 15, 2014, Akamai and Juniper created a product called Elastic CDN for network operators, which bundles Akamai’s virtualized Aura license and Juniper’s SDN product called Contrail Controller. In this case, the Contrail Controller for SDN is the Juniper
The CDN industry is an interesting place right now, as CDNs are partly responsible for disrupting many industries including security, broadcasting, OTT, OVP, ADC and others. In a nutshell, CDNs are global infrastructure companies that deliver content to the furthest
