About two years ago, we first introduced our readers to LiveQoS, the Ottawa-based startup that is a pioneer in mobile optimization. In the time since, they’ve been busy developing their featureset and are now ready to go to market with
The New York Times is leveraging AWS, in-house CMS, and Aspera for its Media Factory encoding pipeline for video. Content providers have seen a massive shift toward video in recent years, and the NYT Â is no exception. Its in-house hardware
Back at HQ, we get a ton of questions from CDNs and start-ups from all parts of the world. Some questions are similar, and others are unique and interesting. We are going to answer those questions in our new series
It’s time to circle back and discuss Brightcove. I’ve written a few posts on Brightcove, and the OVP market. In April 2014, a NY graduate student working on a school project regarding Brightcove, asked me for my input on why
CloudFlare to offer Free SSL Certs CloudFlare announced that it’s going to be offering SSL (HTTPS) certificates to all customers, including non-paying customers. This is in response to Google’s announcement that they will be giving preference to website rankings for
Limelight Networks (LLNW) has just reported second quarter earnings of $41.3M, exceeding analyst expectations of $39.6M. Surprisingly, they have raised their annual revenue outlook from $152M-$158M to $155M-$159M. This adds only a couple of million dollars to the prior estimates,
Once upon a time, Aspera, the high performance file transfer leader was a standalone company. IBM made a brilliant move and acquired them. However, Akamai missed out on a big opportunity, in acquiring one the best small companies in the
Akamai has been busy lately tackling multiple enterprise initiatives in the areas of security and media distribution. Akamai’s media segment accounts for more than 40% of its overall revenue. They are very active in trying to grow the media segment
Akamai has acquired numerous companies over the years. The list includes Prolexic, Fastsoft, Blaze.io, Cotendo, Verivue, Netli, Speedera and a few others. The acquired companies usually offer services that falls under the CDN umbrella. The services have included video streaming,
