Aryaka Networks has just released the State of SD-WAN Connectivity report that offers a glimpse into performance metrics comparing private networks against public networks. The use of global private networks is the next generation of networking, that allows companies like Aryaka to exert more control of the flow of traffic and security of it. [Read more…]
Vapor IO to Start Offering Data Center Capacity at Wireless Network Towers
Vapor IO, an Austin-based data center technology startup, is launching a colocation business offering leased data center capacity at wireless network towers. Their new venture aims to transform tens of thousands of cell towers into edge locations capable of delivering low latency and much faster cloud services to mobile applications. [Read more…]
Top 10 CDN Trends for 2017
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CloudFlare Jumps Into Edge Computing with CloudFlare Workers
CloudFlare has recently announced a breakthrough innovation called CloudFlare Workers, which allows customers to run JavaScript code at the edge. In the coming years, CloudFlare plans to support additional programming languages. [Read more…]
Business Model Scorecard: Content Delivery Network Security
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NGINX Introduces Web Application Firewall
NGINX has announced its new Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform to strengthen its existing suite of application delivery tools. The WAF is used on the popular ModSecurity open source software, which is already used by over a million websites. In its design, the NGINX WAF is comprehensive and sturdy. [Read more…]
Fastly Announces Media Shield to Optimize Streaming and Video
Fastly, the San Francisco-based edge cloud platform, announced today their new Media Shield, which optimizes live-streaming and on-demand video by leveraging a website’s CDN providers with its central cloud. The technology essentially funnels traffic coming from a variety of different CDNs and routes it to a single origin point. This makes it easier and faster for requests to return to the user, and speeds up video and streaming processes. On the business side, this optimization can save a company money. On the user side, it can deliver higher quality streaming and video feeds and at faster speeds.
Distil Networks Announces Enhanced CDN
Distil Networks announced today a suite of improvements to its CDN, which they have designed to further improve their bot detection and DDoS mitigation services. In general, the overhauled CDN will improve overall website performance. But in doing so, the enhanced CDN will also leverage Distil’s existing technologies and streamline DDoS protection services.
Megaport SDN-based Ethernet Connectivity Service Growing By Leaps and Bounds
Megaport, one of the leading startups in the burgeoning Software-Defined Networking (SDN) field, has been making strides the past few years. The Australian company has seen almost 300% revenue growth the last year, and recently brought on Tim Hoffman, former lead for Twitter’s Global Network team, as their new CTO. [Read more…]
G-Core Acquires Skypark CDN and Becomes Leader in CIS Region
G-Core, a leading Luxembourg-based CDN company, has just acquired Skypark CDN, a Russian pure-play CDN. The acquisition will likely buttress G-Core’s already towering reputation as a global web service provider. We’ve written about Skypark before, and they’ve done some interesting research on Russian web and gaming activity. With the merger, G-Core is clearly trying to further strengthen their CDN service and branch out into various markets. [Read more…]
Model 8: Conclusion
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Cool Startup: ProtectWise
Cybersecurity is getting a whole new look. ProtectWise, a burgeoning startup out of Denver, wants to give cybersecurity a futuristic makeover. Their enterprise security models visualize networks in a whole new way. Normally, customers using security services can interact with some kind of program that gives them graphs, number lists, spreadsheets, etc. Instead, ProtectWise’s program imagines a company’s security network as a city. That’s right: a city. [Read more…]
Cool Startup: Illumio
One of the fastest growing startups in the security space right now is Illumio. Illumio’s claim to fame is its adaptive micro-segmentation technology, which helps companies prevent viruses and security threats from spreading within their data centers and cloud environments. Illumio also recently announced that it would extend its segmentation tech to cloud networks like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure (among others). In an age of increasingly dangerous and prevalent security threats, data centers are under attack daily. [Read more…]
Google Beefs Up Its Cloud Security Portfolio
Google recently announced two new initiatives designed to strengthen its already imposing presence in the cloud security space. First, Google teamed up with Spotify to develop an open source security toolkit called Forseti Security. Forseti’s framework focuses on Google Cloud Project (GCP) security. The second announcement unveiled Google Cloud Endpoints, which helps developers monitor, share, and protect their APIs.
Model 8: Part 6
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