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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IBM Makes A Big Leap Forward in Quantum Computing
We’re continuing our series on quantum computing with some big news: IBM has just successfully simulated the molecular structure of a complex molecular compound. While it might sound a bit obscure or niche, this is a major step forward for quantum technology.
Cool Startup: IonQ
Quantum computing is certainly getting a lot of buzz lately. We’re following last week’s profile on Rigetti Computing with another on one of the other top contenders in the race to commercial quantum computing. IonQ, a quantum computing startup based out of Maryland, recently secured $20 million from New Enterprise Associates and GV (formerly Google Ventures) to get a viable, user-ready quantum computer to the market by late 2018. What remains to be seen is how the computer’s going to look and work, and how IonQ can follow that tight timeline.
Wowza Releases ClearCaster Streaming Appliance
Just two days ago, we covered Wowza’s release of their new Ultra-Low Latency streaming service. Today, Wowza has just announced another major release: the Wowza ClearCaster, which brings Wowza’s streaming technology to Facebook Live users. Wowza designed the ClearCaster in collaboration with Facebook to give streamers and broadcasters professional-grade quality and ease the live-streaming process.
PacketZoom Adds Mobile IQ to its Mobile APMo Platform
PacketZoom has announced Mobile IQ, a new end-to-end Application Performance Management and Optimization (APMo) platform for mobile apps that can be paired with PacketZoom’s existing Mobile Expresslane technology. The complete suite of tools allows developers to analyze, troubleshoot, control and optimize app performance in real-time. Mobile IQ is completely free and will remain free forever. It can easily complement PacketZoom’s existing Expresslane technology, which boosts app speeds, rescues TCP disconnects, and reduces CDN costs.
Snapshot: Netflix’s Open Source Projects for Cloud Security
Netflix’s Cloud Security team has been a major player in the open source community for years now. Some of cloud security’s most vexing problems have actually been ironed out on GitHub and through OSS experiments. To commemorate Netflix’s third year of open source software development, here’s a recap of some of their major OSS projects.
Wowza Introduces Ultra Low Latency Streaming Service
Wowza Media Systems has just announced their new Ultra Low Latency streaming service for their Wowza Streaming Cloud platform. The low latency service, built on Microsoft Azure, is designed to significantly reduce buffer and lag times, ensure consistent streaming delivery, and adapt to changing network conditions at scale.
