Netflix Deploys Arista’s 115Tbps Switch Arista, provider of Netflix’s switching and routing platform, has announced the introduction of their 7500R Series switch. The 7500R Series is specialized for cloud service providers and offers a fabric that can provide speeds up
EdgeConneX Launches Data Center in Amsterdam With developments in streaming 4K content, interactive gaming, industrial IoT, and the explosion of cloud computing, more and more infrastructure is needed in proximity to end users, and today EdgeConneX announced that they will
Top Weekly Updates Imperva’s Incapsula Chosen to Provide Security of Medical and Scientific Publishing Company In June 2015, Karger Publishers was the victim of a massive worldwide DDoS attack, a paid HTTPS attack, that increased their traffic by 70 percent
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens to Riverbed, whether it remains a public company, or it is acquired in a leveraged buy-out by a private equity firm. Regardless, Riverbed remains on the path to innovation, and it’s
Akamai and Cisco formed a partnership in October 2013, to integrate Akamai functionality into the Cisco branch routers, thus extending the Akamai CDN to the last mile & first mile. It’s a very innovative project. However, Aryaka beat them to
Aryaka Networks, the first and only WAN Optimization as-a-Service company, is shredding the competition. It has received $54M in funding, and is backed by the top VCs. The question arises, who is going to acquire Aryaka? Aryaka is not a
Riverbed has 2500 employees, generated $261M of revenue last quarter, is on a run-rate to surpass $1B in revenue in 2013, and yet only has a market cap of $2.79B (as of today). What gives? On top of that, Riverbed’s
Watching the public fight between Aryaka and Riverbed brings back good old memories. It feels like the days of Oracle vs. Microsoft, Oracle vs. SAP and Oracle vs. Peoplesoft. Sometimes it got nasty but it was a boatload of fun
