The Department of Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division (NIST) gives the Shellshock bug a score of 10 based on the “Common Vulnerability Scoring System Version 2 Calculator”. The score basically measures the severity of a security vulnerability. The score
Continuing with the CDN Product Management discussion, we’re now going to evaluate the next pillar of CDN Product Management, the “Marketing Mix”. In this case, the Marketing Mix refers to the CDN feature set. One of the challenges facing CDN
Timing is everything in life, especially in technology. On September 16th, Brightcove won the prestigious 2014 Frost & Sullivan award for Global Market Leadership for Online Video Platform. Three days later, Brightcove experienced a massive outage, and their platform was
Over the last month, about a handful of European CDNs have shown a great interest in expanding to the US market. It makes total sense, since many US based CDNs have expanded into all large European cities, and have succeeded
Bizety is publishing the 8th version of the CDN Ecosystem Diagram. This one incorporates the latest updates to the ecosystem over the last several days. Saguna Networks has been added to the diagram, and the European CDN Ecosystem has its
Why did Apple fail to stream its historic product launch recently? Why did the Oscars fail, or ESPN fail during the World Cup after it reached 1.7M simultaneous users? Why do large and small live streaming events fail at all?
Bizety is publishing the 7th edition of the CDN Ecosystem Diagram that groups CDNs into areas of specialization. In this edition, we have added the European pure-play CDNs, and LeaseWeb, who is similar to Internap. Diagram Updates European Pure-play CDNs:
Once upon a time, storage was a profitable product feature for CDNs. A few years back, CDN storage rates were in the range of $.15/GB to $.75/GB, depending on the volume. It would be normal to see CDN customers paying
Recently, Dan Blecher, Product Manager at Google Cloud Platform, stated that Google is focused on building a cloud platform of how it thinks it will be in 5 to 10 years. In this post, we’ll do the same, but from
There’s lot of things happening in LLNW’s world. Netflix left, their network recently experienced an outage, and leadership is struggling to stay ahead of the competition. The recent outage while unfortunate, is not really an anomaly, since many other cloud
Bizety is releasing the next update to the CDN Ecosystem Diagram. The purpose of the diagram is to illustrate and group CDNs into areas of specialization, in order to help readers compare the differences between CDNs. For example, Incapsula and
Over the last three weeks Limelight Network’s (LLNW) stock has steadily declined, dropping from $3/share to $2.78/share. In a Seeking Alpha article published on July 23rd, an analyst named Adam gave his reasons why LLNW will eventually bottom out at
What is the one of the most expensive and critical pieces in the CDN infrastructure? Of course, it’s bandwidth. Bandwidth is the variable cost component that increases as more more bandwidth is utilized. Although there are dozens of carriers offering
Limelight Networks (LLNW) is at a crossroads, and if they seize the opportunity in front of them, they will flourish. If not, they will be in the same bucket as Internap. Just about every CDN in the ecosystem, big and
The CDN landscape in 2015 will be somewhat different than 2014, where general based services give way to service specialties that solve specific problems, whether it relates to wireless last mile delivery, security, microsecond application delivery, and so on. At
