Cloudflare just announced a new service, Cloudflare Access, what it bills as “a perimeter-less access control solution for cloud and on-premise applications”. It is modelled on Google’s BeyondCorp; however, rather than just serving Google’s employees (the initial intent behind BeyondCorp),
Google, Cloudflare and Fastly each started the New Year with announcements about overseas expansions of their points of presence (PoP) and a growth in network capacity and infrastructure. Google Adds Five New Regions and Three New Subsea Cables In 2018,
Bloomberg news reported yesterday that Akamai has brought on Morgan Stanley to conduct a strategic review to evaluate its options, including a recommendation for a potential sale. Last month, Elliott Management disclosed it had acquired 6.5 percent of Akamai shares.
Serverless computing, or FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) lets developers focus on building event-based applications on a function by function basis while it takes care of deploying, running and scaling the code. It doesn’t mean that no servers are involved, but rather that
Machine Learning (ML) is being ever more employed by business in an increasingly widening collection of commercial applications. There are five emerging giants of ML today: Netflix, Google, Twitter, Facebook and Uber. Netflix recently hosted a Machine Learning Platform meetup
Earlier this month, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit quantum chip, in partnership with QuTech, its quantum research partner based in Holland. The new chip is significantly different to the one that has been used by phones, PCs and
Google has announced a new firewall feature for app developers and administrators using Google’s Cloud Platform. Developers can now allow or block access to specific IP addresses by writing rules that outline how the firewall will function. The new feature
Akamai reported earnings yesterday and Cloud Security Solutions revenue was $110M, up 36% from Q1-2016, and Media Delivery Solutions revenue was down 9%, coming in at $187M. As the bellwether of the industry, Akamai’s performance is an indicator of what’s
We have a few more predictions to go for 2017. Next up is Google and CloudFlare. We predict that Google will acquire CloudFlare in 2017 for $1.5B to $3B. CloudFlare has raised a total of $182M and Google was an
We are going to make some bold predictions for 2017. First, let’s look back at 2016 – this year was the most innovative period in history, thanks to the convergence of 1) CDN + Cloud Security 2) CDN + WAN
Modern conceptions of memory are a little more nuanced than those from the past, holding that memories are reconstructed and reprocessed based on the problem at hand, and that the questions that are posed influence how memories are recalled. To
DeepMind, the Google-owned AI startup behind AlphaGo, is collaborating with Blizzard to open the popular Starcraft II game to AI and machine learning research. The goal is to foster advancements in artificial intelligence to the extent that it can solve
One nifty function Chrome offers users of its web browser is an indicator that marks a connection as secure or non-secure via an icon in the address bar. Chrome has long refrained from labelling HTTP connections (HTTP Pages) as non-secure,
Last week, Google acquired API.ai, a natural language and voice-command startup. The price and financial terms of the deal are currently not disclosed. API.ai helps developers with APIs with bot engines that handles chat interfaces such as speech recognition, intent
September 22, 2016 is the ugliest day in history for the DDoS Mitigation industry. It was a fiasco for Akamai and a black eye for every DDoS Mitigation company in the market. Now that things are getting back to normal,
