Akamai has dominated the CDN industry for the last decade in the revenue category. Limelight Networks (LLNW) came the closest in 2007 as show here: Akamai 2007 Revenue – $636M Limelight 2007 Revenue – $103M Akamai was only 6x bigger
Amazon is what may be referred to as “co-opetition”, in that they cooperate with their vendors and customers at first, then they build competing business models. Akamai was their primary CDN at one time, and then they started CloudFront. Netflix
100% Bare Metal CDN Google, Facebook, and Amazon are open source machines using bare metal hardware throughout their infrastructure. However, they got company in the next generation CDN. The infrastructure for the large CDN and start-up CDN slightly differ in
Azure CDN, Akamai, EdgeCast, CloudFlare, Sitelock, Zenedge, Level 3, Distil Networks, Fireblade, F5 Networks, Radware, and dozens more offer DDoS Mitigation Services. The DDoS services include everything from the basic Layer 3/4 protection, to advanced protection against multi-vector attacks across
Level 3 has done a decent job offering network based security for the last several years. At one time, they resold Prolexic DDoS Mitigation Services to its large customer base. However, with Akamai acquiring Prolexic, that relationship is certain to
Last year, Akamai generated $1.5B in annual revenue. This year, if Akamai grows as fast as they did in the 1st quarter of 2014, they are likely to reach $2B in annual revenue. In 2014, the number #2 CDN is
Over the last month, about a handful of European CDNs have shown a great interest in expanding to the US market. It makes total sense, since many US based CDNs have expanded into all large European cities, and have succeeded
It’s been fairly quiet in the land of Cloudfront and Internap. While AWS continues to push the envelope in the cloud computing game, it’s in cruise control when it comes to its CDN, along with Internap. As an outsider to
Amazon Cloudfront has come a long way in the CDN business over the last 5-6 years. Remembering back in 2009 when Cloudfront first entered the stage, there was a lot fear in the hearts and minds of the competition including
Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, has been quoted in the press about the heated competition between CloudFlare and Amazon Cloudfront. But is CloudFlare really like Amazon Cloudfront, even though they compete for the same type of customer? Before the question
Bizety is rolling out the 4th update to the CDN Ecosystem diagram that plots the position of each CDN, or CDN like company in the content delivery network ecosystem. This update includes all 17 US based CDNs, including the Big
Akamai, the largest CDN on the planet, never envisioned a bookstore encroaching on its turf. Then again, neither did HP, IBM, EMC, Oracle or Dell. Amazon dominates the markets for cloud computing and cloud storage. It’s trying to do the
