Today PacketZoom published an analysis of how various CDNs are performing in the top 100 websites as compared to the top 100 mobile apps, revealing some difference between the two arenas. Whereas Akamai is still dominating the market for websites,
Today, Instart Logic issued press releases detailing the rollout of their value-added business model as well as their new partnerships and business capital acquired this past fiscal year (FY17). The value-added business model will offer CDN as commodity, charging only
Today cybersecurity provider ZENEDGE announced their next-generation bot management platform, which will now use behavioral analysis and device fingerprinting to identify and block attacks from increasingly sophisticated bots.
Distil Networks has just announced the release of their Universal ACL (Access Control List), which uses device fingerprinting to block traffic, providing companies a wider range of ways to block malicious users from their online applications. “A key piece of feedback
This entry in our video series on distributed computing will summarize how Facebook has scaled their memcache to support a massive, globally distributed read load of a billion reads per second. Rajesh Nishtala, a member of the team that developed
Verizon Digital Media Services and Distil Networks announced today a partnership between their companies that will deliver bot mitigation services across Verizon’s Edgecast CDN. This partnership will expand on Verizon’s current security offerings, which offer WAF, anti-DDoS, DNS protection, TLS encryption, and
As part of our ongoing series of videos that highlight challenges in distributed computing, we’d like to summarize the data points from Patrick Shuff, an Production Engineer on Facebook’s Traffic Team, on how they scale their load balancing infrastructure to
Since the introduction of AWS Lambda in 2014, serverless computing has emerged as a way to decrease the cost and time needed for development on cloud services. Serverless computing allows developers to write code that is triggered by events and
This week, Azure Media Services announced two additions its streaming services: Standard Streaming Endpoint and enhanced Azure CDN integration. With these changes, Azure hopes to simplify streaming for its customers with auto-scaling capabilities and allow them to stream out to
We have just finished our second interview with the CEO of Red5, a pioneer in live streaming. As part of our ongoing discussion with Red5, we’re going to dive into their auto-scaling feature, which automatically scales server instances to accommodate
Today, NewTek and Wowza Media Systems have just announced their media distribution system MediaDS, a real-time media encoding and live streaming video delivery platform. MediaDS merges NewTek’s live production hardware with Wowza’s streaming software in a 1RU footprint. This allows
A few weeks ago, we posted an introduction to Red5, the live-streaming juggernaut that nobody’s talking about–but everybody should be. Red5 is the team of developers who reverse-engineered RTMP back in 2005, before Wowza was even formed. Over the past
Bot detection and mitigation is the the hottest market within our industry. Finding effective ways to manage sophisticated human-like bots is becoming more difficult, due to the advanced techniques being used by attackers, which can imitate browser activity that seems
With AWS poised to become a $13 billion business, cloud computing has overtaken the enterprise computing industry. However, it’s no secret to insiders that the next disruption is already on its way. IoT gateways and routers that can support edge computing are
Most companies and consumers are unaware of client-side malware attacks–but they should be. This rapidly growing threat bypasses traditional security solutions and infrastructures and can cause significant damage to website, damaging company’s business, loyalty and trust and manipulating user experiences
