HAProxy Technologies, the company behind the most popular open-source load balancer HAProxy just got into the CDN business. In doing so, they’ve done something that Nginx (F5) and Varnish Software declined to do. HAProxy refers to its CDN as an
Limelight Networks has officially launched its edge computing product line. It joins Cloudflare, Fastly, StackPath, and CenturyLink in this new segment. In our industry, edge computing is defined as having the capabilities to ingest, process, store, and deliver data from
2019 has turned out to be an epic year for the CDN industry. The top news, Cloudflare joins Akamai and Fastly as publicly-traded multi-billion dollar companies. In other news, some vendors are modernizing their tech stack, incorporating edge computing capabilities
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
Today, Distil Networks, the San Francisco-headquartered cybersecurity company focused on bot detection and mitigation, published its 2018 Bad Bot Report, titled “The Year Bad Bots Went Mainstream”. The report looks in-depth at the nature and impact of automated threats across
The Akamai Q4 2017 security report from its SIRT (Security Intelligence Response Team) is the latest in its in-depth security reports quarterly on The State of the Internet. Their report on Q4 2017 highlights various continued threats and identifies several new ones.
NGINX has announced its new Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform to strengthen its existing suite of application delivery tools. The WAF is used on the popular ModSecurity open source software, which is already used by over a million websites. In
Last month, Akamai released its State of the Internet Report for the first quarter of 2017. Data in the report was gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform and used to analyze global trends in connectivity and current threats to security.
CDN commoditization is coming to an end. There will be no more fighting for deals on price per GB, number of PoPs, reactive feature sets, and so on. The vendor value prop is going to shift from a price/performance conversation
The Mirai botnet made global headlines when it knocked out Dyn DNS and took many prominent websites offline on the East Coast. Now there’s a botnet powered by a new malware that has been unleashed upon the West Coast of
There’s a new startup in the CDN ecosystem called BitsNGo. Founded in 2015, the 12-employee company offers a global, Tier-1-backed CDN, combined with a competitive pricing scheme tailored to the burgeoning small and medium-sized business (SMB) segment, developers, and other
We’re excited to be celebrating our 3 Year Anniversary. It’s hard to believe that it’s been three long years. We published our very first post on December 3, 2013 titled “Akamai Expands Security Portfolio”. In three years time, we’ve published
Level 3 Communications has reported that since the release of the Mirai source code, the total number of IoT devices infected with the Mirai malware has reached 493,000, over double from 213,000 bots. Since the source code for Mirai was
AWS released an updated version of its AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency Whitepaper, a guide for developers building new apps or looking to optimize their current architecture for DDoS resiliency. In addition, the whitepaper goes into detail to advise
Finally, after all this time Amazon has finally thrown its gloves into the security ring, introducing the AWS WAF and Amazon Inspector. The AWS WAF is the best feature Amazon has rolled out in years, with the last one being
