Akamai just reported earnings for Q1 of 2014, and they hit a grand slam in revenue growth. They grew revenues to $454M, which is 23% better than Q1 of 2013. Analyst peg the average industry growth for the CDN sector
ZeroFOX, based in Baltimore MD is up-and-coming security company that started in 2013, and has received over $12M in funding. ZeroFOX is backed by seasoned security executives from the likes of FireEye, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, McAfee, Fortify and Verdasys. ZeroFOX
Summarizing the previous post, the OVP market in which Brightcove operates within is extremely competitive and small. In addition, the OVP market is fragmenting into smaller, more specialized platforms that offer a set of services catering to the needs of
Recently, a graduate student was tasked to write a research paper on a struggling company for his new project, and the company given to him was Brightcove. He reached out to bizety.com for feedback, in order to understand why Brightcove
Amazon Cloudfront and Level 3 are the only two Non Pure-play CDNs in the market today, with Verizon DMS following closely behind. Both are very successful catering to a specific clientele, offering some services that other CDNs don’t, including Akamai.
A question was once asked to a VP of Product Management that if a specific product could be created, and he said there is no way. A few months afterwards, the same question was asked to a young CEO of
The CDN Ecosystem diagram has been updated, and now includes the only two Telco CDNs in the US, EdgeCast Verizon and Level 3. These two are different from all other CDNs in that they are part of a Carrier. EdgeCast
As mentioned in the earlier post, the video streaming feature set for the Content Delivery Network is a nice to have feature, but it is also a requirement for the CDN. Being able to ingest video, store it, transcode it
What’s going to be the fuel that drives the CDN ecosystem growth in 2014 onward, the video streaming product portfolio or the security feature set? I’ll do a quick deep dive analysis into the comparison of video delivery vs security,
Tenable Network Security is a leading security company based in Columbia, MD that started in 2002, and has secured $50M in Series A. Tenable has built up an extensive customer base of 15,000+ customers, and a community of 1 million
Is the industry witnessing a new CDN era in which specialization is becoming the norm? It seems like the era of CDN specialization is upon us. We have the Big Three CDNs (Akamai, EdgeCast & Limelight), and the CDN specialist.
Amazon Cloudfront continues to innovate, and grow their CDN business steadily. A few years ago, Cloudfront was in a position to challenge the big three CDNs, Akamai, EdgeCast, and Limelight. However, that conversation has now been put to rest. At
Amazon Cloudfront has come a long way in the CDN business over the last 5-6 years. Remembering back in 2009 when Cloudfront first entered the stage, there was a lot fear in the hearts and minds of the competition including
A few weeks ago, Incapsula reported that a sophisticated threat actor high jacked a section of a Top 50 Alexa Ranked website, installing malware, via javascript, that infected users who visited infected web pages to watch video. The only hint
A couple of weeks back, Andy Ellis, Chief Security Officer of Akamai, published a detailed blog post on the heartbleed incident, and so did EdgeCast, Limelight, and most other CDNs. Also, Andy responded to my email when I requested an
