Beginning this quarter, we’ll publish a summary of the state of the CDN industry. The goal is to review specific topics and themes of the last quarter. Discussions around earnings, trends, market challenges, new product innovations, and industry competitiveness are
Global SD-WAN provider Aryaka and cybersecurity and application delivery firm Radware are partnering to offer multi-layer application security and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack detection and mitigation capabilities for its global enterprise services. DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly frequent, more sophisticated and
Zscaler, a San Jose-headquartered global cloud-based information security firm, reported a revenue of $126M in the 2017 fiscal year and $84M in the six months leading up to January 31, 2018, representing a year-over-year growth of 51%. Last week, the
Skyhigh Networks Partners with Zscaler The cloud access security broker, Skyhigh networks, announced that they have begun a partnership with Zscaler, a cloud security company, which will focus on securing cloud services. The two companies have stated they will be
Damballa, a network security monitoring company, announced that its failsafe threat detection platform now integrates with Palo Alto Network’ Panorama network security management platform and Next-Generation Firewalls. Damballa Failsafe 6.0 uses a distributed computing architecture, which offers new detection modules,
Google Capital invested $25M in Zscaler, a leading cloud security company that secures more than 15M users around the world. Gene Frantz, Partner at Google Capital stated “we’re are big believers in two unstoppable technology trends that Zscaler is riding
Zscaler is on fire right now. They have 13M users from a base of 5k companies, doubled their bookings in Q1 2015 over last year, and recently closed a $10M deal with a Global 100 consumer goods company, which sounds
Within the CDN Ecosystem, there is the CyberSecurity sub-ecosystem that consist of companies offering edge security solutions to online businesses leveraging CDN infrastructure. Some are pure-play CDNs that have expanded their security feature set, others are pure-play DDoS Mitigation Service
Zscaler is like a pre-IPO FireEye. They are a hot pure-play security company with 12M users across 180 countries. Zscaler is hybrid incorporating pieces of a CDN, FireEye, Imperva, Aryaka Networks and Symantec. They are also like a B2B CDN
Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, envisions a time when their new product Zscaler Shift enables customers to move the router from the perimeter to the cloud. Aryaka Networks has introduced a new service called Network onDemand that replaces MPLS with
Aryaka Networks and Zscaler are at a crossroads. Perhaps, the biggest threat facing Aryaka is not Riverbed, Akamai, or Carriers offering MPLS, but Zscaler. Zscaler is the highly successful cloud security company with 100+ POPs, 4500+ customers and 12M users
According to Sholmo Kramer, the CEO of Imperva, there are three pillars of enterprise security: endpoint security, network security, and data center security. Symantec and McAfee are the leaders in endpoint security, Palo Alto in network security, and Imperva in
Over the last month, I’ve researched more than a dozen startups, that partake in the CDN ecosystem. The startups included CDNs, OVPs, File Transfer Platforms, WAN as-a-service, and Cloud Security companies. All startups mentioned in my blog are disruptive, offering
Zscaler, a pure play cloud security company based in San Jose CA, started in 2008 and has raised $38M in funding. The founding members have a long history of building and selling companies, including CipherTrust, which was sold to McAfee.
