Barracuda Networks, a company providing cybersecurity and data protection solutions based on cloud services and network appliances, recently announced an updated and expanded public cloud functionality for the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall. The updated cloud-generation firewalls
On Tuesday (Nov 7, 2017), Distil Networks, the San Francisco based cybersecurity firm founded in 2011, announced additional enhancements to its Bot Defense Platform, immediately making available a new JavaScript development option to its customers. The new method completes Distil
At the start of August, Fastly announced that it had added a collection of new points of presence (PoPs) to its global network. They now have 40 points of presence globally, most recently adding a new state-of-the-art facility in Rio
Aryaka Networks has just released the State of SD-WAN Connectivity report that offers a glimpse into performance metrics comparing private networks against public networks. The use of global private networks is the next generation of networking, that allows companies like
Vapor IO, an Austin-based data center technology startup, is launching a colocation business offering leased data center capacity at wireless network towers. Their new venture aims to transform tens of thousands of cell towers into edge locations capable of delivering
CloudFlare has recently announced a breakthrough innovation called CloudFlare Workers, which allows customers to run JavaScript code at the edge. In the coming years, CloudFlare plans to support additional programming languages.
NGINX has announced its new Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform to strengthen its existing suite of application delivery tools. The WAF is used on the popular ModSecurity open source software, which is already used by over a million websites. In
Fastly, the San Francisco-based edge cloud platform, announced today their new Media Shield, which optimizes live-streaming and on-demand video by leveraging a website’s CDN providers with its central cloud. The technology essentially funnels traffic coming from a variety of different
Distil Networks announced today a suite of improvements to its CDN, which they have designed to further improve their bot detection and DDoS mitigation services. In general, the overhauled CDN will improve overall website performance. But in doing so, the
Megaport, one of the leading startups in the burgeoning Software-Defined Networking (SDN) field, has been making strides the past few years. The Australian company has seen almost 300% revenue growth the last year, and recently brought on Tim Hoffman, former
G-Core, a leading Luxembourg-based CDN company, has just acquired Skypark CDN, a Russian pure-play CDN. The acquisition will likely buttress G-Core’s already towering reputation as a global web service provider. We’ve written about Skypark before, and they’ve done some interesting
Google recently announced two new initiatives designed to strengthen its already imposing presence in the cloud security space. First, Google teamed up with Spotify to develop an open source security toolkit called Forseti Security. Forseti’s framework focuses on Google Cloud
We’re continuing our series on quantum computing with some big news: IBM has just successfully simulated the molecular structure of a complex molecular compound. While it might sound a bit obscure or niche, this is a major step forward for
Just two days ago, we covered Wowza’s release of their new Ultra-Low Latency streaming service. Today, Wowza has just announced another major release: the Wowza ClearCaster, which brings Wowza’s streaming technology to Facebook Live users. Wowza designed the ClearCaster in
PacketZoom has announced Mobile IQ, a new end-to-end Application Performance Management and Optimization (APMo) platform for mobile apps that can be paired with PacketZoom’s existing Mobile Expresslane technology. The complete suite of tools allows developers to analyze, troubleshoot, control and
