In 2018, a total of 466 AI companies raised $9.3B in funding, up from $5.4B in 2017, an increase of 72%, according to a PWC Moneytree report. The AI industry is evolving rapidly and it’s much bigger than any single
CenturyLink has been busy lately. The top two announcements coming from the company: 1) they’re now focused on edge computing and 2) the acquisition of Streamroot. If we put certain pieces of the puzzle together we can see a strategy
Verizon Media, formerly VDMS is no longer just a media-based CDN. They’ve embraced cloud security product innovation and are focused on becoming a leader in this area. The current industry trend is to build your own security stack, then integrate
Cloudflare is the 2nd unicorn to IPO in our industry in 2019. It joins the chorus of Akamai, Fastly, and Limelight Networks in the public market. Combined, these four deliver a significant volume of the world’s content, video, and applications
Move over edge computing, the AI revolution is here. A global community of businesses, academia, and freelancers are bringing AI to the DevOps masses. Although it hasn’t made its way to the CDN industry yet, its coming. Right now, its
Once a month, we’re going to send a newsletter that discusses hot buttons and rumors in the industry. We’ve learned from our mistakes that sometimes publishing content on certain topics on a popular blog is not a good idea. However,
The rapid pace of technology innovation is simply proving too much for some vendors. With so many new technologies hitting the market at once, as in those technologies that become the building blocks for new features, trying to build the
Anodot is a Sunnyvale startup that is making waves in the emerging AIOps industry. AIOps, as it is known, is the next generation of APM (application performance management) and network performance monitoring that leverages machine learning to recognize patterns and
Cloudflare is officially going IPO. The S-1 has just been made public. The most important take away, Cloudflare isn’t solely focused on the SMB market. They have 100 of the Fortune 1000 as paying customers and growing. Cloudflare going IPO
Edge computing is taking the world by storm. Although the term means different things to different industries, when used in the context of a CDN, it has a very specific meaning. Edge computing is a set of AWS-like capabilities invented
Earlier today, Fastly announced earnings for the first time and the market reacted favorably, pushing up their stock price. Fastly joins Akamai and Limelight Networks as publicly-traded companies that compete in the market for application and content delivery, cloud security,
Netskope, the unicorn security startup that raised $400M and hired an army of architects from the CDN industry has built a massive global private network (overlay). By the end of 2019, their network (NewEdge) will span 50 PoPs and have
The 4th edition CDN Landscape Report is now available. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the industry in 2019 and offers our views on where the market is headed in 2020 and beyond. For more details click here. Report Highlights
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. With a population of 1.38B and more than 800M Internet users, China is the fastest-growing CDN market in the world. And ChinaCache was the first CDN in China. They were founded in 1998,
