PerfOps, a startup that has recently launched an analytics platform, has benchmarked the network performance of some of the biggest names in content delivery. PerfOps, which has been in development for the last two and a half years, officially launched
Live from NAB: Google and AWS are selling CDN services to a handful of companies for $0.002/GB ($2/TB). In other words, they are practically giving away CDN services to capture high-volume CDN media accounts. Google is aggressively pursing these accounts
It’s interesting how one single action, especially one that flies under the radar of an entire community can be such a disruptive move that it will force a complete re-alignment within a sector. This one action occurred last week and
The competitive landscape has shifted significantly in the last week with the introduction of Google CDN. The severity of the threat that Google CDN poses to Akamai and some Pure-play CDNs is of nightmare proportions. In this brief, we’ll discuss
Now that the dust has settled on Google CDN, we can discuss the repercussions it will have on the CDN landscape. First, lets start off with Akamai, since they’re the biggest CDN out there. Does Google CDN impact Akamai? Yes.
Today is a historical day in the land of CDN… kinda. Google has officially upgraded their glorified load balancing service, which was previously called a CDN to “globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites”. Speedchecker went on
Since its inception in 2001, HAproxy has grown to become one of the most widely used open source load balancers on the market. It was designed specifically as a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based
Is it possible that IP transit price might drop to near zero, just like the way it is in the cloud compute space? A few days ago the thought of this would be “impossible”, but Google’s recent actions have turned
Approximately one year ago, we discussed an idea of how Netflix and Google could alter the US Wireless landscape that’s dominated by Verizon and AT&T. In the last couple of days, that idea has come to fruition, courtesy of Google.
Google developed the Google Spanner, which is the Single Largest Database on Earth. Is it possible that Google will rise to the occasion and develop a similar technology for cyber security? If so, what would it would be called? Google’s
On August 3rd, we asked the question if Google would roll out a CDN. That question has been answered, and Google has rolled out Phase 1 of its CDN right under our nose. Phase 1 is a work-in-process with all
Amazon has been in the CDN business for a few years now. They have proven themselves, and are making headway in the CDN industry. Microsoft is officially in the CDN business with its Azure CDN, delivering content from 29 POPs
