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Bizety Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary
Happy Holidays. We are celebrating our 2 year anniversary. The Bizety Team would like to give a big thanks to all of our readers and customers from around the world. We are humbled by this awesome experience. On December 3,
Akamai Issues Q3 2015 State of Internet Report, Partners with Google and Microsoft
Top Weekly Updates Akamai Issues Q3 2015 State of Internet Report, Partners with Google and Microsoft Akamai, the global content delivery network (CDN) leader, has released its State of the Internet Report for the third quarter of 2015. Average global
Would Microsoft Acquire Akamai to Better Compete with AWS
An Oppenheimer analyst stated that “Akamai would be a viable acquisition target for Microsoft as it looks to compete with AWS in the public cloud space.” One thing is for sure, if this were to happen, the excitement factor in
Imperva’s Incapsula Chosen to Provide Security of Medical and Scientific Publishing Company
Top Weekly Updates Imperva’s Incapsula Chosen to Provide Security of Medical and Scientific Publishing Company In June 2015, Karger Publishers was the victim of a massive worldwide DDoS attack, a paid HTTPS attack, that increased their traffic by 70 percent
Fastly Expands Operations Globally
Top Weekly Updates  1. Fastly Expands Operations Globally In keeping pace with expanding content delivery traffic, CDN provider Fastly has recently announced an addition of two new Points of Presence (POPs) in Brisbane and Perth, Australia and one a new
US CDN Industry Raises $827M in Venture Capital
The US CDN industry has raised $827M in venture capital so far, inching closer to the $1B mark. ClearSky raised $27M in Series B on November 2, 2015, bringing its total to $39M. What makes this round impressive is twofold:
Why When Apples Sneezes, Akamai Catches A Cold. Apple Streaming Service Is No Big Deal
Earlier in the year, we found out that Apple was in conversations with many of the leading networks about creating a skinny TV bundle for it customers. In doing so, one camp believes it will have dramatic repercussions on the
Google Has Not Launched an Akamai Competitor
Google has officially launched a customer facing CDN which they call “Google Cloud CDN”. We say customer facing because Google has always had an internal CDN to deliver their own content, including Youtube. The question begs itself, is Google a
Weekly Intelligence Digest – Dec 7, 2015
Top Weekly Updates 1. Instart Logic Partners with Verisign for Advanced DDoS Mitigation and Scrubbing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have doubled in the last year as hybrid clouds have become increasingly popular. Verisign, which protects 70% of the
CDN Eco-Graph #3
Here’s the latest CDN Ecosystem diagram, which includes three new players: 1) Cloudbric 2) LiveQoS and 3) Skypark CDN. The three have introduced new and innovative business models into the ecosystem further segmenting the market place, away from the basic caching
The Importance of Effective Product Management Strategy
Creating an effective, dynamic and evolving product management strategy is critical to CDN success. There are, however, significant challenges in developing the perfect product mix. The creation of feature set bundles, costing and pricing features, and crafting a compelling branding
Weekly Intelligence Digest – December 2, 2015
Top Weekly Updates 1. Limelight Networks Provides Video Platform for OTT Streaming Service CuriosityStream Limelight Networks is making it easier for users to view a vast variety of video content by partnering up with CuriosityStream, the first streaming service for nonfiction
Limelight Strikes Akamai with a Counterpunch
After an August upset where Akamai won an almost decade long infringement case with Limelight, Limelight is striking back with a counterpunch of their own. Â Limelight has announced that they will seek review by the US Supreme Court of the
Content Delivery Services in the CIS Region
The Commonwealth of Independent States (“CIS”) is comprised of nine countries, with Russia being the largest. Based on 2014 estimates, the CIS Region has a total population of 227M and GDP of $2.33 trillion. As more of these countries make
Cool Startup: SkyparkCDN of Russia
SkyparkCDN, a startup founded in 2013 has grown significantly over the last two years, becoming one of Russia’s largest CDNs, delivering content for thousands of websites. Presently, they cater to the mid-market, with plans to go upstream to the enterprise
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