In the next few posts, I’ll be analyzing the Apple CDN build-out, discussing the challenges they face, the cost for POP build-outs, strategy, talent gap, and so on. According to Rayburn, Apple has been busy building out its CDN infrastructure
Hibernia Networks, one of the leading providers of global connectivity solutions in North America, Europe and APAC has officially launched its global Content Delivery Network. Their CDN has been in the works for the past year. Hibernia has 17 POPs,
Neustar UltraDNS recently experienced a major DDoS attack. Fortunately, UltraDNS stated it mitigated the attack, and that only a certain segment of their name servers experienced network saturation. However, unfortunately, the customers using that specific segment included Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, advertising.com
Plenty of Fish, the popular online dating website was taken down by an 80Gbps DDoS attack impacting 1 million users. Last month, Meetup.com was taken down for 5 days, the courtesy of an 8Gbps DDoS attack. Statcounter, WPEngine, Aweber, and
Comcast is a new regional based CDN offering video delivery services, and large file delivery. Their CDN platform runs on the Apache Traffic Server. Since there is limited information from Comcast on their CDN, we can make some assumptions. If
Comcast, welcome to the CDN Ecosystem. According to Dan Rayburn, Comast has officially entered the CDN market. As such, Comcast is now included in the popular CDN Ecosystem Diagram, the most up-to-date diagram representing all US based CDNs. There is
On October 9, 2013, Cisco and Akamai announced a partnership that would incorporate Akamai’s CDN caching technology into the Cisco ISR router line. They billed it as the “ worlds first integrated Application Optimization Solution for Hybrid WANs”. Fast forward
Just like Instart Logic, Incapsula needs to find the next killer product or service that fuels its revenue growth for the next 2-4 years. Since Incapsula is already a leader in CyberSecurity, the only option left is video. Video delivery
Instart Logic and Incapsula, two of the most innovative startups in the CDN ecosystem are leaders in Web Application Streaming and CyberSecurity, respectively. The have developed game changing cloud features and services that a traditional CDN wouldn’t, not because they
Watch out Sonal (Aryaka), here comes Akamai & Company ready to crash your party. Akamai has officially joined the WAN as-a-service party. After all, the WAN market is like 30x+ bigger than the CDN market. One can’t blame Akamai. The
Rackspace offers a robust suite of cloud services, including compute, storage, application and database hosting, load balancing, Colo, DNS, and a few more. They offer some of the products that Amazon and Microsoft offer, and all of the products that
Once upon a time, Rackspace was the leader in hosting and manage services. In 2013, they earned $1.53B in revenue, up from $1.3B in 2012, and $1B in 2011. Regardless of their revenue growth, Rackspace stock sank almost 50% in
Although Akamai, Fastly, EdgeCast and Limelight are bitter enemies that hate to lose to each other, they all have one common enemy, hardware obsolescence. Akamai might be the fastest content delivery network today, but that doesn’t mean it will be
FireLayers, an Israeli security company based in San Francisco started in 2013, and is looking to change the game of securing cloud applications like Saleforce, Workday, MS Office 365, Box, NetSuite and Workday. The company was founded by Yair Grindlinger
Instart Logic, armed with $43M in VC funding is on a collision course with Akamai in three areas: eCommerce, dynamic content acceleration and mobile content delivery. Overall, Akamai is at war with fifteen US based CDNs, and a host of
