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CDN Execs on the Move
Level 3, a leading Content Delivery Network, has lost three CDN Product Managers over the last few years. First, Ted Middleton left to join EdgeCast as VP of Product Management. Next, Michael Fay left to become VP of Product &
Cleversafe Obect Storage vs CDN Storage
Cleversafe offers next generation object-based storage solutions catering to companies that require massive amounts of storage. They offer storage appliances and software products that replace CDN storage. Their storage offering is innovative, and available for single site or multisite deployments.
Cool Startup: Cleversafe
Cleversafe was founded in 2004 and has received $91.4 million in VC funding. The HQ is based in Chicago, and they have around 100 employees. They offer object-based storage solutions to companies that need PB’s of storage. They have a
Cool Startup: Brevity
Brevity Ventures was founded in January 2010 and has received $8.7M in venture funding. It’s HQ is in Burbank, with another office in New York city. They are a cloud-based media platform that caters to the needs of studios and
Akamai Delivers 7 Exabytes of Data Transfer Monthly
The Akamai 60 Seconds Dashboard provides enough data to run some rough calculations on monthly data transfer. That is something that I always wondered about. Keep in mind, these are only estimates. The numbers represent peak numbers. Plus, big streaming
Akamai 60 Seconds Dashboard Makes History
The Akamai 60 second dashboard is a major milestone for the CDN Industry. In fact, It is the most important CDN dashboard in the history of CDN. Akamai is bearing its heart and soul to the public, providing everyone with
The Billion Dollar Idea for CDNs (Akamai): Part 3
Akamai is a BtoC CDN that has 140,000 servers and thousands of POPs in its ecosystem, delivering 30% of the Internet traffic. The Akamai ecosystem collects an incredible amount of log data, globally, on a scale that most likely surpasses
Billion Dollar Idea for CDNs (Akamai): Part 2
In my previous post, I noted that Akamai needs to create $1B in additional annual revenue by 2020, in order to reach its $5B in sales/year milestone, set by Paul Sagan (ex-CEO) in 2012. And that’s after taking into account
How much bandwidth does Netflix push
Netflix has about 30 million US customers. How much bandwidth do Netflix customers push on any given day? If all 30 million customers watch Netflix at the same time, they would be pushing 90Tbps (1 user = 3Mbps). Of course,
Billion Dollar Idea for CDNs: Part 1
Finding the next billion dollar idea in the CDN industry is proving difficult. So far, no one has done it yet. Akamai, Limelight & EdgeCast, are the only three CDNs with the financial resources, R&D, and technical know-how, to be
The Story of F5 Networks
F5 Networks, the leading provider of application delivery network appliances, is a great success story. It has seen steady growth over the last decade. In the last three years, revenue and net income has increased year-over-year. As of September 30,
Revenue per Customer for 4 CDNs
Below are some interesting numbers. I decided to calculate the annual revenue per customer, and compare them across 4 different CDNs. The numbers are guesstimates at best, with the exception of Limelight. Limelight provides the actual number of customers in
CDNs of the Fortune 50
Finding the CDN of any website is possible with a trace route. In most cases, the trace route can identify the CDN being used. It’s not 100% accurate but it’s good enough. Below are the trace routes for the Fortune
State of Internap CDN
Internap, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, acquired hosting company iweb on October 2013 for $145M. iweb, which caters to the SMB segment, generated $44M in sales and $11M in EBITA over a 12 month period. Back in 2012, Internap acquired Voxel, an
Brief on Internap’s CDN
Internap, an infrastructure provider publicly traded, has 500 employees and recorded $69M in revenues for the quarter ending Sept 30, 2013. It has been losing money every quarter for the last several quarters. Back in October 2006, they acquired Vital
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