Cool Startup: MayaData

MayaData, the San Jose startup is becoming a force in the Kubernetes industry. And the timing is perfect, in that Rancher Labs, another startup focused on Kubernetes just got acquired by SUSE for $600M-$700M. The transaction is good news for

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CDN Buzz Q2 – 2020

We’re midway through Q2-2020 and industry activity is at an all-time high. We’ll summarize the latest market developments starting with Cedexis, then follow up with Edge Gravity, Subspace (new CDN), and more. Is Citrix Shutting Down Cedexis Rumors have been

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The Tragic Conclusion of CDN Startup Instart

Instart, once a product innovation leader in the CDN industry has been acquired. Their website states “Instart is in the process of transitioning our technology and customers to an industry‑leading platform”. Read between the lines and there are two takeaways.

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Distributed Machine Learning with Run.ai

The AI industry is making progress at simplifying distributed machine learning, defined as the process of scheduling AI workloads across multiple GPUs and machines (nodes). One of the primary benefits of distributed machine learning is its ability to reduce model

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CDN-WAN To Conquer Them All

Just what the market needed, another WAN product. Today, there are 30+ vendors providing SD-WAN solutions. Some are well-funded startups like CloudGenix, while others merely point products from the giants like Cisco and VMWare. Within this group, there are differences

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CDN Market Overview: Looking Back at 2019

This month, we’re celebrating our 6th year anniversary of reporting on the CDN industry and 12 years of working in it. It’s been quite a ride. When we first started, the CDN industry was boring because there was very little

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Latent AI Introduces Edge AI Platform

In 2020, it’s predicted that each person on earth will create 1.7MB/second (147GB/day) of data. ARM believes that 1 trillion IoT devices “will be produced between now and 2035” with some of these devices lasting a short time, while others

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Cool AI Startups: AnotherBrain and OWKIN

The AI race in different regions of the world continues. The US leads in both quantitative and qualitative metrics, where quantitative is measured in the number of startups and qualitative is based on a value system that assigns points to

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DotData Eases Feature Engineering with AutoML 2.0

DotData, an AI startup spun off from NEC recently raised $23M, and $43M in total. The startup has experienced a 300% revenue growth over the last 18 months. They describe their service as an “end-to-end data science automation” platform, offering

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Habana Labs AI Processor Outperforms GPUs

Habana Labs, an innovative startup has developed an AI processor designed specifically to run deep neural networks (DNN). The software-programmable processor is available as a PCIe card and mezzanine card. The AI processor works for both training models and inference

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