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,
There’s been a lot of activity in the CDN industry over the last few weeks. We’re going to summarize the most interesting developments in our ecosystem. The two most shocking pieces: 1) the SEC charges Gladius Networks for not registering
The Fastly IPO was a success for the entire industry. Fastly, along with Cloudflare, StackPath, and Limelight Networks are leading the efforts in edge computing innovation, providing developers the capabilities to build, deploy, and run apps at the edge. From
Webscale, the Sunnyvale startup has just raised $14M, bringing the total raised to $32M. The Digital Cloud Company, as they refer themselves to helps online retailers and digital brands secure, scale, and automate the operations of online storefronts. Webscale is
Tomorrow Fastly will go public breaking a 12-year dry spell for a CDN IPO. Limelight Networks went public in June 2007, nearly 1 year after AWS officially launched with S3, SQS, and EC2 in March 2006. The good news for Fastly,
Due to popular demand, we’re continuing with this series, publishing it quarterly. During our research efforts, we sometimes run into some interesting developments. When something happens to a startup in the CDN industry, we want to know about it, what
Last Friday, Fastly announced it had filed an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares that will be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been set. Fastly is expected
Over the last seven years, the technology stack (“stack”) in the CDN PoP has matured. The evolution of the stack can be broken down into three phases: basic, advanced, and intelligent. The basic stack involves caching and content delivery, video
The Stateful CDN is a model that incorporates a distributed database into the technology stack. The purpose of the CDN database is to provide state to stateless services such as edge functions, edge containers, and serverless. Cloudflare is the first
The industry’s quest to develop the next billion-dollar product is in play. The last product to transform the CDN industry was cloud security. Now it’s on to the next idea. Some believe edge compute is the next billion-dollar product. It
The dot com period was the wild wild west of the 90’s. Fortunes were made and lost. Startups exploded on the scene, only to go bust later. Out of the ashes, Google and Akamai were born. Larry Ellison was in
Recently, there’s been some interesting news coming out of the public domain regarding the actions of a few major players. Some of the news is laughable, some of it sad, and some of it makes your head spin when trying
Late last month, Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) introduced waflz, its new global CDN Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF acts as the first line of defense in network security by monitoring all incoming and outgoing network traffic, and deciding
Fastly just announced its partnership with Microsoft Azure. It involves Fastly’s integration with a range of Azure services, such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure Event Grid, and Azure Data Explorer (ADX, formerly known as project “Kusto”), a big data cloud-based
At the end of November, Fastly announced the launch of Fastly Labs, “a hub of in-progress projects and experimental ideas we’re opening up to the developer community at large”, and shared three new projects with the community: Terrarium (a multi-language
