PacketZoom announced yesterday that it was partnering with Amazon CloudFront’s Web CDN, making it the first mobile app performance company to offer an end-to-end bundled mobile networking solution, the Mobile App Performance Management and Optimization (APMO). PacketZoom’s Mobile Expresslane service
Serverless computing, or FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) lets developers focus on building event-based applications on a function by function basis while it takes care of deploying, running and scaling the code. It doesn’t mean that no servers are involved, but rather that
This week, Amazon Web Services introduced Macie, a fully managed security service for S3 that uses machine-learning algorithms to automatically identify and protect sensitive data against data leaks and unauthorized access.
Akamai reported earnings yesterday and Cloud Security Solutions revenue was $110M, up 36% from Q1-2016, and Media Delivery Solutions revenue was down 9%, coming in at $187M. As the bellwether of the industry, Akamai’s performance is an indicator of what’s
Founded in 2011, Redis is one of the most innovative companies around, encompassing both the open-source multipurpose database as well as Redis Enterprise, which enhances Redis Open Source with high availability, linear scaling, and deployment via public and private clouds, on-premises,
Today, Distil Networks published its fourth annual bad bot report, which found that malicious bots attack 96% of all websites that require login credentials. Using anonymized data from domains across Distil’s global network, the 2017 Bad Bot Report studied hundreds
Is there an innovation so disruptive that it poses an existential threat to the CDN business model? So disruptive that it can implode an entire sector in one year? Fei-Fei Li and Google have spoken, and in doing so they
Today PacketZoom published an analysis of how various CDNs are performing in the top 100 websites as compared to the top 100 mobile apps, revealing some difference between the two arenas. Whereas Akamai is still dominating the market for websites,
Akamai is no longer a CDN. To view them as a CDN would be a big mistake, especially for competitors in the cyber security business. The 3 most important questions + answers regarding Akamai’s competitive position in the market are
There’s some big news that was just announced regarding AWS. The word on the street, the Techcrunch street that is – AWS has acquired Harvest.ai, a security startup. Supposedly, AWS is “ramping up its security chops.” I wouldn’t call them
To make the lives of IT technicians easier and ease their migration to the cloud, AWS has launched AWS Managed Services as part of its portfolio. The solution uses automation and machine learning to assist the deployment and management of
Amazon has unveiled AWS Shield, a DDoS protection service for apps running on AWS, putting the largest public cloud in competition with the likes of CloudFlare. It’s free and automatically available for web apps that run on Amazon’s cloud computing
We have a few more predictions to go for 2017. Next up is Google and CloudFlare. We predict that Google will acquire CloudFlare in 2017 for $1.5B to $3B. CloudFlare has raised a total of $182M and Google was an
We are going to make some bold predictions for 2017. First, let’s look back at 2016 – this year was the most innovative period in history, thanks to the convergence of 1) CDN + Cloud Security 2) CDN + WAN
Three years ago, when we first started, it took us a few months to figure out what would become the next big market for CDNs. After researching and publishing research on various business models, we figured that Edge Security would
