Due to popular demand, we’re continuing with this series, publishing it quarterly. During our research efforts, we sometimes run into some interesting developments. When something happens to a startup in the CDN industry, we want to know about it, what
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
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 Stateful CDN is a model that incorporates a distributed database into the technology stack. The purpose of the CDN database is to provide state to stateless services such as edge functions, edge containers, and serverless. Cloudflare is the first
The dot com period was the wild wild west of the 90’s. Fortunes were made and lost. Startups exploded on the scene, only to go bust later. Out of the ashes, Google and Akamai were born. Larry Ellison was in
Recently, there’s been some interesting news coming out of the public domain regarding the actions of a few major players. Some of the news is laughable, some of it sad, and some of it makes your head spin when trying
Earlier this month, Ericsson launched Edge Gravity, a service that offers delivery at the edge via linking up data centers with the last-mile networks of over 80 global partners, including telcos, cable operators and mobile service providers. As the demand
Cloudflare’s serverless cloud computing program is called Workers. Unlike most cloud computing programs, Workers is unique in that it doesn’t draw on containers or virtual machines to run. Instead, it deploys V8: Isolates. The team at Cloudflare hails this as
Cloudflare is increasingly stepping into a leadership position in serverless among CDNs. Before we look at why, let’s first take a step back and look at why serverless. There are an increasing number of options for how best to build
In the race to go public, who will go first – Cloudflare, Fastly or StackPath? The CDN industry has been in a dry spell for 11 years and counting. Akamai went public in 1999, nearly 20 years ago. Their shares
Over 10,000 new customers sign up for Cloudflare’s services daily. The tech start-up was founded in just 2010 and today serves more web traffic than Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Instagram, Bing, & Wikipedia combined from over 151 data centers worldwide. Each
PerfOps, a startup that has recently launched an analytics platform, has benchmarked the network performance of some of the biggest names in content delivery. PerfOps, which has been in development for the last two and a half years, officially launched
Over the last decade, there has been a growth in patent-holding plaintiffs known as non-practising entities, or what critics prefer to call a patent troll. Blackbird Technologies, a recently founded Boston and Chicago-based firm who have amassed a portfolio of
Cloudflare just announced a new service, Cloudflare Access, what it bills as “a perimeter-less access control solution for cloud and on-premise applications”. It is modelled on Google’s BeyondCorp; however, rather than just serving Google’s employees (the initial intent behind BeyondCorp),
Google, Cloudflare and Fastly each started the New Year with announcements about overseas expansions of their points of presence (PoP) and a growth in network capacity and infrastructure. Google Adds Five New Regions and Three New Subsea Cables In 2018,
