Nginx Plus vs. F5 Big IP and Citrix Net Scaler Nginx has posted two cost-benefit analyses of its Nginx Plus versus other hardware application delivery controllers (ADC), namely F5 Big IP and Citrix Net Scaler. Unsurprisingly, it found that Nginx
It’s time to circle back and discuss Brightcove. I’ve written a few posts on Brightcove, and the OVP market. In April 2014, a NY graduate student working on a school project regarding Brightcove, asked me for my input on why
CloudFlare to offer Free SSL Certs CloudFlare announced that it’s going to be offering SSL (HTTPS) certificates to all customers, including non-paying customers. This is in response to Google’s announcement that they will be giving preference to website rankings for
On January 1, 2014, I made my case why Brightcove should build its own CDN. Then on January 7, 2014, I recommended that Kaltura build a CDN. Low and behold, six months later, Kaltura builds a CDN. Recently, Kaltura formed
Brightcove, the leading online video platform (OVP) has 30% market share, according to a 2012 Frost and Sullivan report. The OVP market has three dominant pure-play OVPs: Brightcove, Ooyala and Kaltura, which I refer to as the Big Three. ThePlatform
On January 7, 2014, I predicted that Kaltura would raise a monster round within the next 60 days. Low and behold, they raise $47M thirty five days later. In total, Kaltura has raised $115M, and joins the elite group of
ThePlatform was acquired by Comcast, Ooyala raised a monster $43M round bringing its total to $122M, and Brightcove is buying Unicorn Media. That leaves Kaltura, as the last man standing. Something’s gotta give, the OVP market is small. Kaltura can’t
According to some industry pundits, OVP’s such as Brightcove, are huge resellers of CDN bandwidth. In some cases, more than 60% of the total OVP cost, is for bandwidth and storage. The CDN piece probably makes up half of the
Limelight Networks (LLNW), once the dominant #2 CDN right behind Akamai, has been on a path of revitalization. A new executive team is in place, and their value proposition has broadened, in order to reach the office of the Chief
