Fastly has come a long way since its IPO in May 2019. In 2021, they generated $354M, employed +1,000 people, and hired a CFO, CRO, CMO, and CPO. The CPO worked at Google for several years in global networking, a
This month, we’re celebrating our 6th year anniversary of reporting on the CDN industry and 12 years of working in it. It’s been quite a ride. When we first started, the CDN industry was boring because there was very little
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
Earlier this week, StackPath announced StackPath EdgeEngine, a new serverless computing service designed to allow developers to run code at the edge without the need for a server, virtual machine or container. “The edge is the new frontier in cloud
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
Earlier this year, Google announced its Learn2Compress technology as part of its ML Kit. Google’s AI research team developed Learn2Compress to power its automatic model compression service. The innovative Learn2Compress technique enables the reduction of large AI models into small
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
eBay announced last week that it has been custom-building its own servers in order to replatform and bring up to date its backend infrastructure; and following the lead of Facebook, the eCommerce giant will be open-sourcing its designs. The open
Akamai’s IoT Edge Connect is Beta Testing MQTT Akamai is beta testing MQTT for IoT Edge Connect, imagining “a hyperconnected world [that] makes every aspect of our lives better”. IoT Edge Connect provides the worldwide messaging network and storage infrastructure
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
VDMS (Verizon Digital Media Services) made two major announcements this week: another addition to its growing feature set with Real-Time Log Delivery (RTLD), and the news that Argentina’s largest media conglomerate, Grupo Clarín, is now using its CDN services, expanding
section.io, the next-gen content delivery platform we’ve written about several times here on Bizety, has just completed an impressive Series A funding round of $5.5 million. The company launched its product three years ago when it moved HQ from Sydney,
Varnish Software has long been a leader in caching software, however, they have recently expanded their product portfolio; including an investment of resources in building out their do it yourself CDN product line. Their DIY CDN business is growing rapidly
Multi-national telecoms and networking company Ericsson announced recently that it is bringing 80 broadband service providers worldwide into its unified delivery network (UDN) platform partnership, introducing what it describes as a shared CDN. The investment is critical to the company’s
As real-time data processing at the edge becomes an increasing necessity, one company that is certain to attract attention is Iguazio and their Enterprise Data Cloud, a data platform that serves and consumes data with real-time analytics. Founded in 2014,
