About two years ago, we first introduced our readers to LiveQoS, the Ottawa-based startup that is a pioneer in mobile optimization. In the time since, they’ve been busy developing their featureset and are now ready to go to market with
Akamai is in the appliance business now, since Bloxx offers security products in the form of Hardware, Hybrid Cloud and Virtual. This acquisition ranks as one of the best Akamai has ever done, because it opens up a pandora’s box
Akamai reigns supreme in the CDN Industry. However, in the Cloud, Networking, Security, and Virtualization sectors, Akamai is an afterthought. AWS, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and VMWare always lead in the conversations, since they are the behemoths of their respective
Back at HQ, we get a ton of questions from CDNs and start-ups from all parts of the world. Some questions are similar, and others are unique and interesting. We are going to answer those questions in our new series
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
Now with Prolexic acquisition behind them, Akamai is ready to embark on its next one. With $1B cash on the books, Akamai can afford to buy a few companies within a short period of time. Some acquisitions seem like no
Once upon a time, Aspera, the high performance file transfer leader was a standalone company. IBM made a brilliant move and acquired them. However, Akamai missed out on a big opportunity, in acquiring one the best small companies in the
Akamai has 100% penetration into the Fortune 1000, or very close to it. In addition, they have 100 of the top banks, government agencies, the largest media companies in the world, and so on. If you break down Akamai’s annual
Akamai had a phenomenal Q1, reporting 23% growth and revenues of $454M. It’s phenomenal in the sense that Akamai grew revenue by this much being a CDN in the CDN industry, where the industry is small, established, has a little
Summarizing the previous post, the OVP market in which Brightcove operates within is extremely competitive and small. In addition, the OVP market is fragmenting into smaller, more specialized platforms that offer a set of services catering to the needs of
Akamai is like the Seattle Seahawks on Super Bowl day, and Limelight (LLNW), well, is like the other team. Akamai dominates every facet of the CDN game, especially in the metrics, such as revenue, customer count, product depth, number of
Signiant is one of the leaders of high speed file transfer. The Signiant platform, also known as the Media Shuttle and Media Exchange, enables studios, post production facilities, distributors, and professional filmmakers to exchange large uncompressed media files between its
Wow, this news blows me away. When I posted about Brightcove needing to buy companies, to reach the milestone of $1B in annual revenue, I didn’t mean to spend $49M on an ad insertion company. This deal is so bad,
Akamai has acquired numerous companies over the years. The list includes Prolexic, Fastsoft, Blaze.io, Cotendo, Verivue, Netli, Speedera and a few others. The acquired companies usually offer services that falls under the CDN umbrella. The services have included video streaming,
