Cloudflare is the 2nd unicorn to IPO in our industry in 2019. It joins the chorus of Akamai, Fastly, and Limelight Networks in the public market. Combined, these four deliver a significant volume of the world’s content, video, and applications
Move over edge computing, the AI revolution is here. A global community of businesses, academia, and freelancers are bringing AI to the DevOps masses. Although it hasn’t made its way to the CDN industry yet, its coming. Right now, its
Once a month, we’re going to send a newsletter that discusses hot buttons and rumors in the industry. We’ve learned from our mistakes that sometimes publishing content on certain topics on a popular blog is not a good idea. However,
Cloudflare is officially going IPO. The S-1 has just been made public. The most important take away, Cloudflare isn’t solely focused on the SMB market. They have 100 of the Fortune 1000 as paying customers and growing. Cloudflare going IPO
Earlier today, Fastly announced earnings for the first time and the market reacted favorably, pushing up their stock price. Fastly joins Akamai and Limelight Networks as publicly-traded companies that compete in the market for application and content delivery, cloud security,
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. With a population of 1.38B and more than 800M Internet users, China is the fastest-growing CDN market in the world. And ChinaCache was the first CDN in China. They were founded in 1998,
There’s been a lot of activity in the CDN industry over the last few weeks. We’re going to summarize the most interesting developments in our ecosystem. The two most shocking pieces: 1) the SEC charges Gladius Networks for not registering
Webscale, the Sunnyvale startup has just raised $14M, bringing the total raised to $32M. The Digital Cloud Company, as they refer themselves to helps online retailers and digital brands secure, scale, and automate the operations of online storefronts. Webscale is
Tomorrow Fastly will go public breaking a 12-year dry spell for a CDN IPO. Limelight Networks went public in June 2007, nearly 1 year after AWS officially launched with S3, SQS, and EC2 in March 2006. The good news for Fastly,
Last Friday, Fastly announced it had filed an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares that will be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been set. Fastly is expected
What does a company do when they raise $400M, are a leader in CASB (cloud access security broker), have a growing product line, earned Unicorn status, and hit a roadblock when it comes to global network performance due to legacy
Over the last seven years, the technology stack (“stack”) in the CDN PoP has matured. The evolution of the stack can be broken down into three phases: basic, advanced, and intelligent. The basic stack involves caching and content delivery, video
The industry’s quest to develop the next billion-dollar product is in play. The last product to transform the CDN industry was cloud security. Now it’s on to the next idea. Some believe edge compute is the next billion-dollar product. It
Sunnyvale, California-based Rafay Systems has recently launched as a “CDN for Microservices.” At its core, the Rafay platform is a global edge orchestration service that automates the placement and ongoing operations of latency and location-sensitive workloads closer to users and
