NGINX Prepares for the IoT with UDP Load Balancing User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is used by many IoT devices, is now supported by NGINX’s load balancing engine. NGINX works as an application delivery platform, and as the proliferation of
Facebook’s Expose on Caching in Their CDN Facebook recently published a description of their CDN caching upgrade process, outlining the evolution from McDipper to BlockCache to RIPQ. Facebook is striving to utilize its CDN to deliver photos and videos to
Fastly Now Offering Service and Support Plans Fastly, the CDN that markets itself as “built by developers, for developers,” has now released several options for service and support plans. These plans aim to help companies ease the transition to Fastly
Netflix Deploys Arista’s 115Tbps Switch Arista, provider of Netflix’s switching and routing platform, has announced the introduction of their 7500R Series switch. The 7500R Series is specialized for cloud service providers and offers a fabric that can provide speeds up
Around the time that Akamai acquired Prolexic (circa 2013) and kick-started the Edge Security CDN segment, Reblaze came to market with an idea to revolutionize this new market space. Co-founders Eyal Hayardeny and Tzury Bar Yochay developed Reblaze to offer
Quantil, a US subsidiary of ChinaNetCenter and one of the leaders in CDN services in APAC, is expanding aggressively in North America, Europe and Latin America. So far, Quantil’s strategy is working and they are winning new business outside of
CDNvideo, based in Moscow, is a leading CDN in the CIS region. It provides website acceleration, live streaming, VOD delivery, cloud transcoding, load balancing and advanced caching solutions to enterprises of all shapes and sizes. It currently employs 50 people
Reblaze is an up-and-coming startup that has burst onto the CDN scene with an innovative feature-rich cloud security platform. The founding team are security veterans with years of industry experience, and they’ve built a holistic feature-rich SaaS security platform for
Distil Networks has just released its third annual Bad Bot Landscape Report. Distil has the largest library of bots in the industry and specializes in bot mitigation security. Bots can be a diverse group of website and API predators. They
ChinaCache 2015 Earnings Down Due to Platform Issues ChinaCache has finally released its earnings for Q4 2015 and they show a decrease in both quarterly and yearly earnings. Quarterly, their revenue was down 8.1% yearly to $48.1 million and their
In 2013, a startup named Teridion began operations in stealth mode with $5 million in VC funding and the vague goal of making the Internet “lightning fast.” In September 2015, they garnered an additional $15 million in VC funding and
Cachefly CDN Incorporates Varnish Plus Cachefly, the first CDN to use exclusively TCP anycast for routing as opposed to DNS load balancing, has added Varnish Plus to its network. Varnish specializes in caching and uses open-source software to do so.
Ambari Views Now Available on HDInsight Ambari software was developed through Apache to enable provisioning, managing and monitoring of Hadoop clusters with a GUI and API. Previously Ambari was only available through a plugin to Ambari View Framework. Now, it
For several years, experts have predicted that 5G would be commercially available in 2020. In light of the recent technological advancements in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, it seems that 5G is expected in the much nearer future. 5G will likely have
Facebook has released an analysis detailing its use of flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) in the field over the last four years. These drives averaged many millions of SSD-day usage. Due to the recent advances in flash capacity, SSDs are
