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CDN Market Overview: Looking Back at 2019
Ernie
December 29, 2019
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
CDN Industry Buzz for Q4 2019
Ernie
September 16, 2019
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
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Ernie
August 24, 2019
Once a month, we’re going to send a newsletter that discusses hot buttons and rumors in the industry. We’ve learned from our mistakes that sometimes publishing content on certain topics on a popular blog is not a good idea. However,
Who’s in the Exclusive Edge Computing CDN Club
Ernie
August 13, 2019
Edge computing is taking the world by storm. Although the term means different things to different industries, when used in the context of a CDN, it has a very specific meaning. Edge computing is a set of AWS-like capabilities invented
Q3 2019 Buzz on Fastly, Cloudflare, Limelight, and Akamai
Ernie
August 8, 2019
Earlier today, Fastly announced earnings for the first time and the market reacted favorably, pushing up their stock price. Fastly joins Akamai and Limelight Networks as publicly-traded companies that compete in the market for application and content delivery, cloud security,
CDN Industry Buzz for Q3 – 2019
Ernie
July 5, 2019
There’s been a lot of activity in the CDN industry over the last few weeks. We’re going to summarize the most interesting developments in our ecosystem. The two most shocking pieces: 1) the SEC charges Gladius Networks for not registering
What CDN will be the First To Reach $500M in Annual Sales
Ernie
June 5, 2019
The Fastly IPO was a success for the entire industry. Fastly, along with Cloudflare, StackPath, and Limelight Networks are leading the efforts in edge computing innovation, providing developers the capabilities to build, deploy, and run apps at the edge. From
Competitive Brief: Fastly to Lead the Industry’s Edge Computing Efforts Against AWS
Ernie
May 15, 2019
Tomorrow Fastly will go public breaking a 12-year dry spell for a CDN IPO. Limelight Networks went public in June 2007, nearly 1 year after AWS officially launched with S3, SQS, and EC2 in March 2006. The good news for Fastly,
Latest CDN Industry Buzz – Q2 2019
Ernie
May 8, 2019
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
Fastly Files for IPO, Breaking 12 Year CDN IPO Dry Spell
April 23, 2019
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
Latest CDN Industry Buzz
Ernie
February 22, 2019
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
Fastly Partners with Azure For Big Data
February 4, 2019
Fastly just announced its partnership with Microsoft Azure. It involves Fastly’s integration with a range of Azure services, such as Azure Blob Storage, Azure Event Grid, and Azure Data Explorer (ADX, formerly known as project “Kusto”), a big data cloud-based
Fastly Introduces Fastly Labs and Terrarium Edge Compute Platform
January 10, 2019
At the end of November, Fastly announced the launch of Fastly Labs, “a hub of in-progress projects and experimental ideas we’re opening up to the developer community at large”, and shared three new projects with the community: Terrarium (a multi-language
Fastly Launches Platform TLS To Help Automate, Configure and Scale TLS Certificates
September 19, 2018
Edge cloud platform provider Fastly just announced Platform TLS, a service designed to automate, configure and scale Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates. In doing so, they join other edge PaaS CDNs like section.io that already offer SSL or TLS certificates