It’s been a known fact for years that a few CDNs charge customers for Professional Services. The debate is old, and many CDNs try to use it against Akamai when competing with them in accounts. Usually it goes something like
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
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
CDN Nugget: “A CDN can have one hundred of the best features in the market that blows away the competition, but if it’s not packaged properly, than the CDN is mediocre at best”. Developing the perfect product mix, feature set,
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
One could say we are in the golden era of content delivery networks, where the traditional CDN business model is giving way to new CDN business models. The entire CDN industry of today is much different than the one in
Are CDN prices dropping year over year? Are CDN services a commodity? Even if Akamai and Limelight report that CDN services are dropping by “x” percent every year, does that reflect the entire CDN industry? First, let’s address the question
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
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
Here are the latest 2014 annual revenue estimates for 18 US-based CDNs. Although Aryaka Networks is a “WAN as-a-service (WAAS)” provider, and Instart Logic a “Software-defined Application Delivery (SDAD)” company, we include them in our coverage, in order to analyze,
We are presenting the latest CDN Ecosystem Diagram. The purpose of the diagram is to visualize the spot each CDN occupies within the Ecosystem. As the CDN market matures, it’s fragmenting into highly specialized areas, where individual CDNs are building
Limelight Networks (LLNW) finally has something to celebrate, a victory against Akamai. A victory is a victory, regardless if it’s in the legal court, or in the RFP bidding court. With that being said, the victory is ancient news, and
In the next few posts, I’ll be analyzing the Apple CDN build-out, discussing the challenges they face, the cost for POP build-outs, strategy, talent gap, and so on. According to Rayburn, Apple has been busy building out its CDN infrastructure
The multi-CDN strategy has been in play for only a few years. Seven years ago, very few companies used dual CDNs. I rarely encountered high Alexa ranked websites using two or more CDNs, and that includes Tumblr and LinkedIn. That
Previously, we stated that CDN Ecosystem Diagram 6.0 was the last diagram of its kind. However, since we have new information, the CDN Ecosystem Diagram has been updated accordingly. The diagram visualizes where each CDN lies within the ecosystem. Akamai
