PerfOps, a European-based startup recently launched a network performance and analytics platform. Dmitry Akulov, the CEO and founder has been developing distributed applications for the last decade. The first application that brought him global prominence was JSDelivr, an open source
SecurityTrails was founded in 2017 by CEO Chris Ueland; formerly the CEO for MaxCDN. They have twelve employees and are growing. Their customers include PricewaterhouseCoopers and Microsoft. Their stated mission is to “make the biggest treasure-trove of cyber intelligence data
Lance Crosby’s security start-up StackPath is proving to be wildly profitable. Since they launched in July 2016, it has possessed the attributes more commonly associated with a veteran firm: 1M customers, 275 employees and $150M in investor funding at its
Who saw this coming? MaxCDN and Fireblade have been acquired by StackPath, a startup security-as-service-platform that raised $180M. StackPath is led by Lance Crosby, founder of Softlayer, and Andrew Higginbotham, former SVP of Cloud Technology at CenturyLink. In addition, StackPath acquired
MaxCDN Deploys TokuMX and VoltDBÂ MaxCDN, the highly innovative next-gen CDN based in the City of Angels is breaking all sort of internal records. They’ve doubled headcount over the last year, and it wouldn’t be surprising if they do so
CloudFlare CloudFlare added a POP in Lima Peru bringing its total POP count to 29 CDN POPs Over the last 12 months CloudFlare’s LatAm traffic has increased 10x CloudFlare has plans to add 12 POPs in Mainland China in the
When Akamai announces that CDN prices are under pressure, does that mean that prices for the entire CDN industry are under pressure? We have to take into account that Akamai’s prices tend to be higher than the competition, just like
CloudFlare CloudFlare has introduced a new service called Tinfoil Security. Tinfoil Security is a scanner built from open source tools, and glued together with a “secret sauce”. The service scans for vulnerabilities within web applications. Tinfoil Security is similar to
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
There has been lots of activities over the last two months in the CDN industry. A few notable accomplishments: Aryaka raises $10M, Incapsula builds an extensive DDoS Platform and Scrubbing Center, and Limelight wins lawsuit against Akamai. The rest of
Summarizing the previous post, the OVP market in which Brightcove operates within is extremely competitive and small. In addition, the OVP market is fragmenting into smaller, more specialized platforms that offer a set of services catering to the needs of
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 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
MaxCDN, one of the fastest growing startup CDNs, has integrated Sucuri’s WAF (web application firewall) and IDS (intrusion detection system) into its CDN platform. Sucuri is one of the leading security companies protecting more than 1 million websites, and cleaning
MaxCDN, one of the up-and-coming CDNs is privately funded, and boast more than 10,000+ paying customers. Recently, they merged the NetDNA brand into MaxCDN, making it one company. I think that was a great move, as they are now able
