Should Akamai buy Imperva

Today, a once in a lifetime opportunity has presented itself to Akamai. It might disappear in a few weeks. Akamai has $1B of cash in the bank, and a stated revenue milestone of $5B by 2020. That’s a significant increase

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How Can Imperva Incapsula Recover

Wall Street is punishing the information security sector right now. Investors are heading for the exits, running away from FireEye and Imperva. Imperva is down 43% today on the news that they will miss quarterly revenues by $4.5M, when they

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CDN Ecosystem 3.0

This is the third update to the CDN Ecosystem diagram which includes a new section for the infrastructure CDN. The Infrastructure CDN is the CDN that has 10,000+ caching servers in production, located at various POPs throughout the globe.  The

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Is FFmpeg and Open Source Software Secure

The entire content delivery network industry runs on some form of open source software, starting from Akamai, all the way down to the smaller CDN. We can include cloud based media companies such as encoding.com, Brightcove, and Kaltura into the

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