We are presenting the latest CDN Ecosystem Diagram. The purpose of the diagram is to visualize the spot each CDN occupies within the Ecosystem. As the CDN market matures, it’s fragmenting into highly specialized areas, where individual CDNs are building
What does Feedly, Evernote, Meetup, Aweber, PlentyofFish, StatCounter, WPEngine, and Krebsonsecurity have in common? They’ve all experienced volumetric DDoS attacks, and most have been knocked off line. PlentyofFish was disrupted by an 80Gbps DDoS attack, and Meetup was knocked off
EdgeCast Verizon is in the midst of expanding its entire infrastructure and feature set. No surprises there, since they are now Verizon, and have access to Verizon’s deep pockets. EdgeCast is in the process of adding 17 new POPs, doubling
Today, we are starting our very first series of Q&A sessions. In this session, we talk to Per Buer, the founder of Varnish Software. The topic of discussion is Comcast and Apple’s decision to use Apache Traffic Server (ATS) to
Netflix has invested tens of millions of dollars in building out its CDN infrastructure, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. According to StreamingMedia.com, prior to their CDN build-out, Netflix customers never had any streaming issues. Once Netflix built their
Limelight Networks hit a major milestone today, in that their stock price is $3+ per share. Four positive activities helped push LLNW stock up $1 per share over the last week: LLNW wins lawsuit against Akamai, LLNW SVP buys 100,000
Now that Akamai is in the WAN as-a-service (WAAS) business, we can compare them to the market leader Aryaka Networks. Aryaka lives and breathes WAAS, and has been doing it longer than anyone else, accumulating 150+ customers along the way,
Azure CDN is a “CDN Specialist” in the Media Delivery Services segment, along with Level 3, capable of hosting the largest streaming events such as the Olympics. Azure and Level 3 have the scale and infrastructure to stream hundreds of
Yottaa, the five year old Content Delivery Network is starting to hit its stride. In 2013, they increased revenue 700% and the average sales price by 20x. In another words, Yottaa has grown up in a big way, and has
The CyberSecurity CDNs are in a great position for mitigating all flavors of DDoS attacks. While amplification based attacks test the CDNs bandwidth capabilities, the zero-day attacks test the CDNs capabilities in stopping OWASP Top 10 attacks. Nowadays, the DDoS
On May 30th I wrote about PCI Compliant CDNs, and CloudFlare wasn’t on the list. Low and behold, a week later, CloudFlare announces they are now Level 1 PCI Compliant. Is that coincidence? Nah, I’m just on a roll 🙂
Zscaler is like a pre-IPO FireEye. They are a hot pure-play security company with 12M users across 180 countries. Zscaler is hybrid incorporating pieces of a CDN, FireEye, Imperva, Aryaka Networks and Symantec. They are also like a B2B CDN
The Era of CDN Specialization is more relevant now, than it ever was before. Instart Logic, Incapsula, Aryaka Networks, and others are fragmenting the CDN Ecosystem more and more, by focusing and specializing in a specific set of services, being
Although the chances of Akamai acquiring Limelight Networks are slim, what is the impact if it happens? The impact would be huge, re-arranging the layer at the top of pyramid for the largest CDNs. Currently, Akamai, Limelight and EdgeCast are
There has been lots of activities over the last two months in the CDN industry. A few notable accomplishments: Aryaka raises $10M, Incapsula builds an extensive DDoS Platform and Scrubbing Center, and Limelight wins lawsuit against Akamai. The rest of
