Last week, Barracuda announced enhancements to their firewall products that will expedite customers’ adoption of Microsoft Azure and enable increased automation. The firewall enhancements include increased integration with Microsoft OMS, SD-WAN capability, and a WAF REST API integrated with Puppet Labs technology that will aid in automated deployments and the move toward continuous delivery.
Distil Announces API Bot Defense for API Security
The bot detection company Distil Networks announced today the rollout of Bot Defense for API, a bot mitigation solution for API security. Distil’s solution prevents bots from accessing public API servers for web and mobile, an underprotected area that is increasingly targeted by malicious users.
Quantil Introduces High-Performance UDP File Transfer Service
Quantil, the second largest CDN in the world, has introduced a high-performance UDP file transfer service that competes with Aspera and Signiant. The service is able to transfer large files between single and multiple destinations and targets companies that require fast, global transfer of large files and business-critical information.
Spotify, A Giant In The Open Source Infrastructure Movement
With a massive catalog of music, a large base of subscribers and myriad features for them to utilize, Spotify’s infrastructure needs are significant. Each day, they handle 100 billion user-generated events of over 300 different event types, which must not only be processed but used to train the machine learning algorithms that generate personalized recommendations, radio play, and Discover pages for each user. [Read more…]
Wowza Releases Report on Livestreaming UX
Last week, Wowza released the 2017 report “Create the Streaming Media Experience Users Want.” The report analyzes the livestreaming UX (user experience) for five markets–gaming, news, radio, sports, and user-generated content (UGC)–by looking at the first time to first frame (TTFF) and end-to-end latency (E2E) for market leaders in each segment. These factors, along with factors like resolution, audio clarity, and stability, had the highest impact on livestreaming UX and were most likely to contribute to user abandonment.
Netflix Building Content Delivery Network Data Science and Algorithm Team
Earlier this year, Netflix hit a milestone of 100 million users worldwide–a massive user base that now consumes 125 million hours of streaming content per day from their own CDN. Delivering content at this scale presents a significant challenge, one that is aided by Netflix’s rapidly growing data science and algorithm team. By leveraging big data on various metrics, such as subscriber churn and popular files in various regions, Netflix is able to maintain QoE and plan for future changes to their membership numbers, catalog, and consumer devices.
Quantum Computing: Part 3
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Quantum Internet and Quantum Communications: One Step Closer
Last month, a team of physicists led by Pan Jianwei from the University of Science and Technology in China took a major step toward the development of a quantum internet. Using Micius, the world’s first quantum communications satellite, the team was able to generate a pair of entangled photons and distribute them from space to ground stations 1200 km apart.
CloudFlare Introduces CloudFlare Apps Platform
Today, Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Apps, an open platform that showcases apps for distribution to the over six million websites on Cloudflare’s network. Using the Cloudflare Apps platform, website owners can browse, preview and install apps instantly and without the need for any technical expertise.
Interview with Stewart McGrath, CEO of section.io
Modern web applications and content delivery requirements have changed considerably since content delivery networks first emerged. Agile development practices, DevOps, edge compute and new security requirements are all driving more sophisticated use cases for CDN, including multi-CDN and DIY CDN approaches.
Imperva Announces Enhancements to the Incapsula CDN Platform
Imperva has just announced a few major enhancements to the Incapsula platform, in the areas of storage architecture, rules engine and bot management. Incapsula is one of the leaders in the Edge Security market, protecting customers like Moz, LivePerson, Proofpoint and Pandora. [Read more…]
Quantum Computing: Part 2
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CDN Network Classification
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Aryaka Networks Launches SmartACCESS Remote Access Solution
Today, Aryaka announced the availability of SmartACCESS, a clientless SD-WAN solution for remote access with a built-in dynamic CDN. Aryaka’s first-to-market, software-defined solution provides up to 3x faster application performance for mobile users, targeting enterprise companies that struggle to provide secure and reliable connectivity to their remote workforce.
Zenedge Announces API Security Suite
Last week, cybersecurity company Zenedge announced the release of Zenedge API Security, an API protection solution with full application layer protection. We had the opportunity to talk with Aftab Afzal, head of Zenedge’s EMEA Sales about their API security suite and how it stacks up against competing solutions. [Read more…]
