Microsoft just launched the public preview of its own global CDN network, which is now available through ‘Azure CDN’. Azure customers will be able to use and deliver content from Microsoft’s own global CDN network. The Microsoft CDN will be
It’s interesting that Microsoft ditched its CDN ambitions. Curiosity is now kicking in, how much did Microsoft invest in its CDN platform? Was it $1M, $5M, $10M or tens of millions of dollars? The good news is we are in
Every CDN has one overriding goal in common, and that is to change the world through technology. It’s also interesting to note that every CDN has a different approach to solving the same challenges when it comes to site performance,
On the Azure CDN section of the website, there is one sentence that stands out, and it goes something like this “Azure CDN is built on a highly-scalable, reverse-proxy architecture with sophisticated DDoS identification and mitigation technologies to protect you”.
Azure CDN Enters the DDoS Mitigation Services Market Watch out Akamai, Microsoft has quietly rolled out their DDoS Mitigation Services Platform for Azure CDN. We all know Microsoft does a fantastic job fighting cyber crime, but this move goes to
When Akamai announces that CDN prices are under pressure, does that mean that prices for the entire CDN industry are under pressure? We have to take into account that Akamai’s prices tend to be higher than the competition, just like
Watch out Amazon, here comes LeaseWeb with a vengeance. LeaseWeb, based in Amsterdam is the latest cloud compute service provider to enter the CDN industry. They started off in 1997 as a hosting company, then evolved into a public/private cloud
Bizety is releasing the latest CDN Ecosystem diagram. The purpose of the diagram is to group CDNs together into areas of specialization, in order help discern the differences between the various CDNs. Today, the CDN industry is very diverse, and
Azure CDN is finally here. Microsoft has published a decent amount of data on their CDN offering. We can now do a quick analysis on their pricing and feature set. They currently have 29 POPs globally, spread across North America,
It appears that Microsoft recently registered the domains Sway.com and Sway-cdn.com, which I verified via whois. Is Microsoft planning on launching a more comprehensive CDN platform? I say comprehensive, since they already have a rudimentary CDN in place called Azure
Azure CDN is a “CDN Specialist” in the Media Delivery Services segment, along with Level 3, capable of hosting the largest streaming events such as the Olympics. Azure and Level 3 have the scale and infrastructure to stream hundreds of
