Rachel Kempf, Author at Bizety

Barracuda Announces NextGen Firewall Enhancements

By Rachel Kempf on July 17, 2017

Last week, Barracuda announced enhancements to their firewall products that will expedite customers’ adoption of Microsoft Azure and enable increased automation. The firewall enhancements include increased integration with Microsoft OMS, SD-WAN capability, and a WAF REST API integrated with Puppet Labs technology that will aid in automated deployments and the move toward continuous delivery. Read More

Distil Announces API Bot Defense for API Security

By Rachel Kempf on July 13, 2017

The bot detection company Distil Networks announced today the rollout of Bot Defense for API, a bot mitigation solution for API security. Distil’s solution prevents bots from accessing public API servers for web and mobile, an underprotected area that is increasingly targeted by malicious users. Read More

Quantil Introduces High-Performance UDP File Transfer Service

By Rachel Kempf on July 12, 2017

Quantil, the second largest CDN in the world, has introduced a high-performance UDP file transfer service that competes with Aspera and Signiant. The service is able to transfer large files between single and multiple destinations and targets companies that require fast, global transfer of large files and business-critical information. Read More

Spotify, A Giant In The Open Source Infrastructure Movement

By Rachel Kempf on July 11, 2017

With a massive catalog of music, a large base of subscribers and myriad features for them to utilize, Spotify’s infrastructure needs are significant. Each day, they handle 100 billion user-generated events of over 300 different event types, which must not only be processed but used to train the machine learning algorithms that generate personalized recommendations, radio play, and Discover pages for each user. Read More

Wowza Releases Report on Livestreaming UX

By Rachel Kempf on July 10, 2017

Last week, Wowza released the 2017 report “Create the Streaming Media Experience Users Want.” The report analyzes the livestreaming UX (user experience) for five markets--gaming, news, radio, sports, and user-generated content (UGC)--by looking at the first time to first frame (TTFF) and end-to-end latency (E2E) for market leaders in each segment. These factors, along with factors like resolution, audio clarity, and stability, had the highest impact on livestreaming UX and were most likely to contribute to user abandonment. Read More

Netflix Building Content Delivery Network Data Science and Algorithm Team

By Rachel Kempf on July 7, 2017

Earlier this year, Netflix hit a milestone of 100 million users worldwide--a massive user base that now consumes 125 million hours of streaming content per day from their own CDN. Delivering content at this scale presents a significant challenge, one that is aided by Netflix’s rapidly growing data science and algorithm team. By leveraging big data on various metrics, such as subscriber churn and popular files in various regions, Netflix is able to maintain QoE and plan for future changes to their membership numbers, catalog, and consumer devices. Read More

Quantum Internet and Quantum Communications: One Step Closer

By Rachel Kempf on July 5, 2017

Last month, a team of physicists led by Pan Jianwei from the University of Science and Technology in China took a major step toward the development of a quantum internet. Using Micius, the world’s first quantum communications satellite, the team was able to generate a pair of entangled photons and distribute them from space to ground stations 1200 km apart. Read More

CloudFlare Introduces CloudFlare Apps Platform

By Rachel Kempf on June 27, 2017

Today, Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Apps, an open platform that showcases apps for distribution to the over six million websites on Cloudflare’s network. Using the Cloudflare Apps platform, website owners can browse, preview and install apps instantly and without the need for any technical expertise. Read More

Interview with Stewart McGrath, CEO of section.io

By Rachel Kempf on June 26, 2017

Modern web applications and content delivery requirements have changed considerably since content delivery networks first emerged. Agile development practices, DevOps, edge compute and new security requirements are all driving more sophisticated use cases for CDN, including multi-CDN and DIY CDN approaches. Read More

Aryaka Networks Launches SmartACCESS Remote Access Solution

By Rachel Kempf on June 15, 2017

Today, Aryaka announced the availability of SmartACCESS, a clientless SD-WAN solution for remote access with a built-in dynamic CDN. Aryaka’s first-to-market, software-defined solution provides up to 3x faster application performance for mobile users, targeting enterprise companies that struggle to provide secure and reliable connectivity to their remote workforce. Read More

Zenedge Announces API Security Suite

By Rachel Kempf on June 12, 2017

Last week, cybersecurity company Zenedge announced the release of Zenedge API Security, an API protection solution with full application layer protection. We had the opportunity to talk with Aftab Afzal, head of Zenedge’s EMEA Sales about their API security suite and how it stacks up against competing solutions. Read More

PacketZoom Nearly Doubles the Speed of Photofy App

By Rachel Kempf on June 7, 2017

Recently, the mobile last mile acceleration company PacketZoom worked with Photofy, a content creation and photo editing app, to improve its speed and limit session interruptions. During A/B testing, Photofy rescued 63% of transfer disconnects and yielded speeds that were between 1.46 and 1.76 times faster. Read More

Cloudflare Prepares for IPO

By Rachel Kempf on June 5, 2017

Looking ahead to the initial public offering planned for mid-2018, CloudFlare has hired their first CFO, Thomas Seifert, the former CFO of network security company Symantec. Seifert will oversee key parts of the preparations for CloudFlare’s IPO as well as the company’s global finance department, reporting to co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince. Read More

Highlights from Akamai’s State of the Internet Report

By Rachel Kempf on June 5, 2017

Last month, Akamai released its State of the Internet Report for the first quarter of 2017. Data in the report was gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform and used to analyze global trends in connectivity and current threats to security. Read More

Open Source Data Pipeline – Luigi vs Azkaban vs Oozie vs Airflow

By Rachel Kempf on June 5, 2017

As companies grow, their workflows become more complex, comprising of many processes with intricate dependencies that require increased monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Without a clear sense of data lineage, accountability issues can arise and operational metadata can be lost. This is where directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), data pipelines, and workflow managers come into play. Read More

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