GoDaddy is continuing its effort to upgrade its infrastructure into something more modern by acquiring Nodejitsu, a Node.js-centric platform-as-a-service provider, the web-hosting…
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Fastly lands $40M to hire new staff and build out more internet access points worldwide
The content delivery network that touts a software-centric approach in addition to using solid state drives for better load times will add points-of-presence locations in places like Seattle, Brazil and South Africa.…
Read MoreWith the launch of its CDN, it’s clear Apple is just as webscale as Facebook or Google
Apple's content delivery network shows how dedicated the Cupertino company is to digital products -- giving them the same care and attention as its physical ones.…
Read MoreAkamai signs deal with OpenDNS to make the web faster
Akamai's job is to speed up the web, but as more companies use alternative DNS services, that can be difficult. So it's signed a deal with OpenDNS to get content to people faster.…
Read MoreWill cable operators, CDNs and ISPs make or break the future of online streaming video?
Qwilt's CEO Alon Maor offers a look at the increasing flow of streaming video and warns of possible blockages ahead.…
Read MoreContent delivery network Instart Logic rakes in $26 million in funding
Content delivery network Instart Logic received $26 million in series C funding as the company takes on content delivery network bigwigs Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks.…
Read MoreAkamai buys DDoS security company Prolexic for $370 million
Akamai Technologies(s AKAM) says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Prolexic Technologies, a Hollywood, FL.-based cloud-based security company, whose products…
Read MoreNetflix’s new pitch for Open Connect: it sucks less during prime time
ISPs who use Netflix's Open Connect caching appliances have fewer slow-downs during prime time, the company argues.…
Read MoreFastly adds a streaming-only product to its content delivery network
Fastly is launching a new streaming media content delivery service. The CDN startup is taking its expertise in small files to handle a large portion of video streams, especially to mobile devices.…
Read MoreGoogle should be ashamed for paying carriers to handle its traffic
It turns out that Google, the great proponent of net neutrality, is paying Orange to handle its traffic on the carrier's mobile networks. That's an unwelcome development, and here's why.…
Read MoreAkamai returns to roots, taps founder as new CEO
Akamai's 8-month search for a new CEO didn't take it too far: It tapped co-founder and chief scientist Tom Leighton to succeed Paul Sagan, who announced his intention to leave last April. Now Sagan will cede the CEO slot on January 1.…
Read MoreThe shape of the internet has changed: It now lives life on the edge
Thanks to more traffic that can be sent via CDNs and cached at the edge, the shape of the Internet is changing. Instead of data traveling back and forth over long-haul pipes, today's Internet looks like streams of data flowing to reservoirs at the edge.…
Read MoreFat databases, small pipes: The problem of data inertia
As datasets get fatter and cumbersome, it’s becoming harder to move them around. Even the fattest pipes look like cocktail straws when you’re talking about petabyte databases. It's getting more and more difficult to move these massive troves of data to the applications that use them.…
Read MoreForget the CDN players, Netflix is caching its own video
Netflix is rolling it’s own content delivery network, inviting ISPs to either connect directly to its video libraries at global peering sites or cache its content within their own networks. Called Open Connect, the service will help Netflix cut the umbilical cord to commercial CDN providers.…
Read MoreYottaa gets $9M to speed up more websites
Yottaa, the startup which aims to accelerate website performance, netted $9 million in Series B funding from existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Stata Venture Partners and Cambridge West Ventures as well as some new-but-unnamed backers. That company will use the new funding to bankroll customer recruitment..…
Read MoreAmazon updates CDN for dynamic content
Amazon says its updated Cloudfront content delivery network will better handle dynamic, interactive web content. To date, Cloudfront handled static web pages while Amazon left a lot of the heavy lifting of dynamic content to partners like CDN market leader Akamai.…
Read MoreDutch top Euro broadband table, but things are slowing
The quality of Europe's internet access is right up there with Asia's -- but according to Akamai, if you want top quality continental broadband your best bet is to hit Holland or Romania, which boast the best speeds. Sweden is home to some of the fastest cities.…
Read MoreComcast’s long game
The emphasis by Comcast's critics on the near-term regulatory implications of its Xbox strategy may be misplaced. Rather than challenging net neutrality rules directly, Comcast seems to be playing a long game against its over-the-top competitors based on quality of service and premised on the coming, inevitable bandwidth crunch as ever-more video tries to crowd onto the Internet.…
Read MoreThis is what it looks like when a $6.6B company pivots
Akamai's latest product lets operators take over their own content delivery network, using Akamai's software but not its boxes. This is a huge change in Akamai's business. The shift and the reasons for it offer clues about the evolution and domestication of the web.…
Read MoreAkamai’s Blaze buy and what it says about today’s web
Akamai said it purchased Canadian web site optimization company Blaze. In acquiring Blaze, the content delivery network offers an excellent example of how the web ic changing as we access it from more devices and as the nature of the web sites we visits changes…
Read MoreInternap buys Voxel to beef up dedicated hosting and public cloud mojo
Internap, the first company out of the chute with an OpenStack Compute–based public cloud, is buying Voxel for that company's dedicated hosting and cloud services expertise. This could be a sign that the cloud-service consolidation that kicked off last year will continue into 2012.…
Read MoreVidScale aims to make TV Everywhere better
VidScale wants to make more efficient use of existing infrastructure, by introducing content delivery network and transparent caching technology into their networks. It's been chosen by Avail-TVN, which is helping network operators to roll out TV Everywhere services and offer more streaming content to users.…
Read MoreAkamai, CDNs face ‘hyperconnected’ world of devices
The exploding number of devices sucking up rich content poses a challenge for CDN players like Akamai, which previewed technologies to address this issue at a customer event. In this "hyperconnected" era, any device that can be connected is connected, said Akamai Chief Scientist Tom Leighton.…
Read MoreCotendo using Equinix data centers to host CDN services
Cotendo is leveraging Equinix's global data center footprint to give itself 30 points of presence, letting Cotendo focus on differentiating elsewhere. The companies released details of their partnership Thursday morning, including a quadrupling of Cotendo's customer base to 400 from 100 in the past two years.…
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