A couple of weeks back, Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer of Akamai, published a detailed blog post on the heartbleed incident, and so did EdgeCast, Limelight, and most other CDNs. Also, Andy responded to my email when I requested an
Bizety is rolling out the 4th update to the CDN Ecosystem diagram that plots the position of each CDN, or CDN like company in the content delivery network ecosystem. This update includes all 17 US based CDNs, including the Big
The heartbleed fiasco threw the entire CDN Industry into disarray. For the last couple of days, fixing the Heartbleed bug has the #1 concern for the C Level Execs at all of the CDNs. There has never been anything like
The heartbleed bug has impacted the entire CDN industry, including the heavy weights: Akamai, EdgeCast, Limelight, Fastly, CloudFlare and Incapsula. More than anything else, reissuing SSL certificates to all SSL customers is more of a headache than anything else. The
This is part two of the Content Delivery Network Ecosystem diagram. The diagram below includes 16 of 17 USA based CDNs. The objective of the diagram is to visually represent each CDN in the ecosystem. In my original post, I
Last week, Limelight Networks (LLNW) published a Cedexis performance report that demonstrated their DSA was faster than Akamai DSA, EdgeCast ADN/Transact and Fastly DSA. Thereafter, they hired a reputable research company to validate their claims. This week, LLNW ran a
Limelight Networks (LLNW) is stepping up to the plate, in a big way. Enterprise Strategy Group, and established research company, validated LLNW’s claims that the performance of their dynamic content acceleration service is faster than Akamai, EdgeCast and Faslty, based
Fastly, the rapidly growing CDN that plans on becoming a Tier 1 CDN in short order, has just signed up a major hosting company called DreamHost. DeamHost is a well known global hosting brand, that’s very innovate. DreamHost is the
Fastly is growing rapidly, probably faster than any other CDN in the ecosystem. They have 80+ employees and counting; and are pushing 166Gbps of bandwidth. The bandwidth dashboard on the Fastly homepage provides us with a visualization of their rapid
Fastly, the up-and-coming CDN, has just added three members to the executive team, that have deep expertise in web performance, infrastructure and global networking. Steve Souders, Christopher Brown, and Tom Daly come from Google, Chef Software and DYN. The new
According to many pundits in the tech world, Apple is building an internal CDN. The caching software is one of the key components of a CDN platform, and also one of the more complex when building a CDN. Implementing BGP
Fastly is awesome CDN that is growing by leaps and bounds. They remind me of Cotendo and EdgeCast in their early years. They’ve hired experienced Sales Engineers and Sales Reps that understand the business. CDN experience is a key requirement
Fastly, the cool startup from the Valley, has decided to throw in the towel and get into the streaming business. This is a big move for a CDN to take, especially one coming from delivering small files such as images,
Fastly, a next-generation CDN, started in early 2011 and has raised $14M+ in funds. They have grown incredibly fast in such a short period of time. Of all the CDNs that are three years old or younger, this is my
