The Internet Giants (Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon) have been on a rampage investing in middle mile infrastructure, more specifically dark fiber, submarine cable systems, and to some degree, spectrum for a while now . The two primary reasons: 1)
Verizon and AT&T have been competing against each other in the regulated and unregulated markets for decades, in all areas of the business, including wireless, wireline, metro, data, voice, IP, data center, and so on. It’s co-petition at its finest,
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
Who says money doesn’t grow on trees. According to the illustration below, not only does money grow on trees, so does love. Here are some cute couples that can possibly hit it off in 2015. Now we are randomly picking
A few brains from the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) and the University of Central Florida got together over a few drinks and created an “Ultra-high-density spatial division multiplexing with a few-mode multicore fibre”. In simple terms, it just means
The cloud price wars continue between Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Recently, Google dropped their prices by a whopping 10% from $.07/hour to $.063/hour for the n1-standard-1 US configuration. Amazon and Microsoft will follow suit. In two weeks, one of the
Bizety is releasing the latest CDN Ecosystem diagram. The purpose of the diagram is to group CDNs together into areas of specialization, in order help discern the differences between the various CDNs. Today, the CDN industry is very diverse, and
Rackspace offers a robust suite of cloud services, including compute, storage, application and database hosting, load balancing, Colo, DNS, and a few more. They offer some of the products that Amazon and Microsoft offer, and all of the products that
Once upon a time, Rackspace was the leader in hosting and manage services. In 2013, they earned $1.53B in revenue, up from $1.3B in 2012, and $1B in 2011. Regardless of their revenue growth, Rackspace stock sank almost 50% in
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort driven by a dozen volunteers. They are responsible for developing, maintaining, securing, and managing the OpenSSL software stack. As everyone found out last week, their work is extremely important to all businesses transacting
Akamai has been on a stride lately, its stock price is in the forties, it’s market cap is $8B+, and it just acquired Prolexic. The acquisition will provide an extra few hundred million in revenue, and separate it from other
