The Origins of Fastly – from a Startup to Industry-Leading Next-Gen CDN Fastly was founded by technologist and entrepreneur Artur Bergman in 2011 as a CDN. He was previously CTO at Wikia, a Quantcast Top 20 site, where he built
Last Friday, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Commerce released a draft White Paper on enhancing the resilience of the Internet against Botnets and Distributed Attacks. They are inviting comments from all stakeholders regarding the issues raised and goals
Over the last year, Limelight Networks has been busy increasing efficiency and growing its global network. In fact, they increased server capacity by 50% and network capacity 39%, opened 12 new Points of Presence (PoPs), including three in India alone,
Zenedge, a leading provider of cloud-based, artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions continues to experience rapid growth. This year they announced the addition of three new solutions, Zenedge API Security, Zenedge Bot Manager and Zenedge Malware Protection to their already robust suite
Imperva has just announced a few major enhancements to the Incapsula platform, in the areas of storage architecture, rules engine and bot management. Incapsula is one of the leaders in the Edge Security market, protecting customers like Moz, LivePerson, Proofpoint
Last week, cybersecurity company Zenedge announced the release of Zenedge API Security, an API protection solution with full application layer protection. We had the opportunity to talk with Aftab Afzal, head of Zenedge’s EMEA Sales about their API security suite
Fastly announced today the release of their new edge cloud platform, which provides application delivery, scalability, and security at the edge of the network. Built into the platform are three products Fastly is also announcing today–the Fastly Image Optimizer, Load
The fast growing ZENEDGE is increasing network capacity by 10x due to strong customer growth. In addition, they are expanding the PoP count across North America, Europe and APAC. The solution set of DDoS Mitigation, Bot Mitigation and WAF running
The content delivery and edge security industry is experiencing strong growth. One important market indicator is the growth in infrastructure capacity, as in network and server capacity. At the end of Q1-2017, four of the largest CDNs now have a
Two generations of CDN PoP architecture have come and gone. The CDN PoP architecture is the software stack that powers the content delivery services. The 1.0 architecture was developed almost two decades ago, which was a great fit 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
In a previous post, we explained how Akamai could hurt the competition and capture market share by dropping its data transfer prices to $1/TB. The question is can Akamai’s business model thrive at $1/TB for data transfer? There are two schools
Today, four very important things are happening/happened in our industry: 1) Akamai’s market cap is $12B 2) Akamai has $1.7B in cash as of Q3-2016 3) Information security spending reached $81.6B in 2016 and 4) Startups like Deep Instinct are
Happy New Year to all my friends around the world. And special thanks to my paying subscribers. It is because of you that I can do this full time and enjoy it immensely. For a long time I always wondered
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
