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Can CloudFlare Reach $15B Valuation and Surpass Akamai In 2 Years
Who in the world could have ever imagined that a startup CDN catering to the SME /SMB marketplace, and providing free CDN service as one of it options could be more valuable than Akamai one day? Certainly not Akamai. Earlier
Aryaka Cloud Networking Technology Surpasses Growth Expectations
The battle for the Next Generation WAN market continues, as network providers and SD WAN vendors announce their latest strategies targeting the enterprise market with robust hybrid WAN architectures. Many vendors in the industry are following in the footsteps of
Cool Company: Cloudbric by Penta Security
Cloudbric, a new cloud based security service by Penta Security aims to change the game of WAF and DDoS Mitigation for the better. Penta Security Systems (Penta), Korea’s largest IT security firm created the Cloudbric service back in 2014. The
Weekly Intelligence Digest – Nov 18, 2015
Top Weekly Updates 1. InstartLogic Offers Application Delivery Platform to Nonprofits—For Free Taking a creative approach to giving back, InstartLogic offers their application delivery platform to registered 501(c)(3) charitable organizations at no cost. Ultimately, the goal is to improve nonprofit
Akamai and Limelight Networks Should Merge Tomorrow
We’ve reached a boiling point, and things are about to blow over for Akamai, Limelight Networks (LLNW) and the entire CDN industry. If you’ve been living in the bat cave for the last couple of days, there was some major
What’s With The Love Fest For Amazon
The last few days have been really interesting watching Amazon get all this love from the media, investors and practically the whole world. The latest one to fall in love is Mr. Morgan Stanley himself, smitten by stunning beauty of
Zscaler vs Akamai – The Next Chapter
Akamai vs Zscaler – finally we have two cool companies who’ll be going into hand-to-hand combat starting in 2016, as the once two separate market segments collapse into each other – Cloud Security and CDN. In acquiring Bloxx, Akamai spoke
The $3 Trillion GAFAN + MM Is a Whopper of a Beast
Sometimes the research results get interesting when conducting analysis on various metrics in the industry. Over the last few months, we’ve been talking about the big bad wolf called GAFAN+M. Shockingly, the market valuation for the GAFAN+M jumped about $500B
The Ugly Truth: Who Are Akamai’s Media Customers or Anyone For That Matter
We’re starting a new blog post series called “The Ugly Truth”, and the purpose of each post is to ask and answer the most difficult question pertaining to our industry. The question is carefully selected, and it reflects the question
Akamai Must Acquire Encoding.com + Signiant To Expand Digital Media Portfolio
Akamai is in the appliance business now, since Bloxx offers security products in the form of Hardware, Hybrid Cloud and Virtual. This acquisition ranks as one of the best Akamai has ever done, because it opens up a pandora’s box
Akamai On Investing and Acquisition Rampage: Invested in ClearSky
Its been a few days since Akamai announced earnings, and with the dust settled, the question now is why did Akamai wait one week before announcing the acquisition in Bloxx and investment in ClearSky? Maybe in the grand scheme of
Akamai’s Latest Move Marks Major Shift In Cloud Security – Watch Out Palo Alto Networks
You gotta love Akamai, because they’re playing Wall Street like a fiddle and no one sees it. Akamai has been in the Wall Street game for sixteen years now, and they understand the analyst mindset like the back of their
New Market Segment: Edge Security CDN
The time has finally arrived where we can officially carve out a new market segment called Edge Security CDN. The Edge Security CDN segment started when Akamai acquired Prolexic back in February 2014, having matured over the last few months,
Akamai – Ignore Wall Street and Fire Apple
Akamai, ignore Wall Street. Then continue to build out your network, by investing tens of millions of dollars in buying capacity, colo, servers, switches, routers and infrastructure, every quarter, because you will definitely need it in 2 years. Wall Street
CDN Eco-Graph #2 – Welcome Cato Networks, HolaCDN and Reblaze
Here’s the latest CDN Eco-Graph. The exciting news – we’re welcoming three new players to the CDN Ecosystem: 1) Cato Networks 2) HolaCDN and 3) Reblaze. The best part, each player focuses on a different part of the technology stack.
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