Top Weekly Updates 1. Instart Logic Partners with Verisign for Advanced DDoS Mitigation and Scrubbing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have doubled in the last year as hybrid clouds have become increasingly popular. Verisign, which protects 70% of the
Pacnet, the entity formed after a merger between Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet, is not only a leading Carrier in APAC, but they have a history of working with different CDN business models. Pacnet began as a reseller of Internap
Watch out Amazon, here comes LeaseWeb with a vengeance. LeaseWeb, based in Amsterdam is the latest cloud compute service provider to enter the CDN industry. They started off in 1997 as a hosting company, then evolved into a public/private cloud
It’s been fairly quiet in the land of Cloudfront and Internap. While AWS continues to push the envelope in the cloud computing game, it’s in cruise control when it comes to its CDN, along with Internap. As an outsider to
Amazon Cloudfront continues to innovate, and grow their CDN business steadily. A few years ago, Cloudfront was in a position to challenge the big three CDNs, Akamai, EdgeCast, and Limelight. However, that conversation has now been put to rest. At
In my previous post, I was critical of Internap’s CDN operations. I was convinced that Internap should shut down its CDN operations, sign a CDN reseller agreement, and focus on the hosting business. However, after talking to Pete Mastin, the
Internap, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, acquired hosting company iweb on October 2013 for $145M. iweb, which caters to the SMB segment, generated $44M in sales and $11M in EBITA over a 12 month period. Back in 2012, Internap acquired Voxel, an
Internap, an infrastructure provider publicly traded, has 500 employees and recorded $69M in revenues for the quarter ending Sept 30, 2013. It has been losing money every quarter for the last several quarters. Back in October 2006, they acquired Vital
