Instart Logic, one of the most innovative startups in the Content Delivery Network Ecosystem has just raised $26M in Series C, bringing its total to $43M. For a CDN, that’s a massive amount. The last time I talked to Manav
There are approximately seventeen US based content delivery networks in the bizety CDN Ecosystem diagram. The annual revenues for Akamai and Limelight Networks are public information. The revenues for the remaining CDNs are guesstimates. Based on the information below the
Below is a high level CDN concept that I refer to as the Akamai End-to-End Packet Security Flow. Its named after Akamai because they’re the only CDN that can afford to do it. The concept has four main pieces: Akamai
In 2012, Paul Sagan, former CEO of Akamai, set a $5B revenue milestone for 2020 that was a five-fold increase to the current annual revenue stream. A few months afterwards, he retires, silently telling himself “see ya Tom”. Tom Lieghton
Akamai has 100% penetration into the Fortune 1000, or very close to it. In addition, they have 100 of the top banks, government agencies, the largest media companies in the world, and so on. If you break down Akamai’s annual
Akamai had a phenomenal Q1, reporting 23% growth and revenues of $454M. It’s phenomenal in the sense that Akamai grew revenue by this much being a CDN in the CDN industry, where the industry is small, established, has a little
The multi-CDN strategy has been in play for only a few years. Seven years ago, very few companies used dual CDNs. I rarely encountered high Alexa ranked websites using two or more CDNs, and that includes Tumblr and LinkedIn. That
Watch out Akamai, here comes the CyberSecurity CDN Leader Incapsula. Incapsula is doubling their POP count to 30, end-of-year. In the CDN business, the 30 POP count is the ideal number. Not only does adequately cover all major regions of
During the earnings call with investors, Limelight Networks (LLNW) reported $41.2M in revenue for Q1 of 2014, and loss from operations of $7.6M. Netflix represented $4.9M of that revenue. At one time in the past, Netflix represented 40% of LLNW’s
Recently, CDNify, a pure-play CDN based in the UK decided to abandon the CDN-in-a-box solution from OnApp. One of CDNify’s challenges with OnApp revolved around POP responsiveness, in that some POPs were not as responsive as others. For a CDN,
Over the last few days, the Bizety team has been working on a CDN List comparing all US based Content Delivery Networks in the ecosystem. The first draft was posted yesterday, and the second update will be posted tonight. The CDN List
Recently, Verizon published its sixty page 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, detailing the security incidents of 2013. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll summarize a few key points from various sections of the report. According to the report, more
Previously, we stated that CDN Ecosystem Diagram 6.0 was the last diagram of its kind. However, since we have new information, the CDN Ecosystem Diagram has been updated accordingly. The diagram visualizes where each CDN lies within the ecosystem. Akamai
OnApp CDN in-a-box enables companies to become a CDN specialist, not a generalist on the same level of Akamai, Limelight or EdgeCast. The CDN specialist occupies a certain place in the CDN ecosystem. The OnApp CDN software is not a
Recently, CDNify, an upstart CDN reseller based in London decided to abandon its CDN partnership with OnApp. OnApp is a software developer offering CDN-in-a-box, cloud storage and cloud compute. The OnApp solution is ideal for hosting companies and some Telco’s
