Yesterday (on February 21, 2012), Akamai Technologies, one of the most leading providers of cloud-based web optimization and security offerings, announced the launch of the Akamai Kona Site Defender, which is a service designed to protecting enterprise websites from various threats and protect their applications and transactions from an array of attacks.
The Kona Site Defender makes use of the Akamai global network to provide immense scalability and protection against attacks like DDoS, TCP SYN floods, UDP floods and other network layer attacks. Apart from this, the solution provides various configuration rules to protect against HTTP protocol violations, limit HTTP request and policy limits and protection against SQL injections, cross site scripting and other application layer attacks. The system also comes with a web application firewall and analytic information to allow organizations in gauging and protecting their content better.
Akamai mentioned that it has seen a huge burst in online attacks, and the Kona Site Defender is aimed to protect its customers against these attacks. The solution is currently in limited availability and will be made available to general public from April 11, 2012.
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Created at February 22nd, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Tuesday (on February 14, 2012), SoftLayer Technologies, the leading provider of dedicated and cloud-based hosting services, announced the availability of the production version of its redundant and highly scalable cloud storage service for faster search and retrieval of data from SoftLayer’s CDN or global private network, the SoftLayer Object Storage solution.
This offering is built on top of OpenStack Object Storage and it provides additional features like fast and integrated indexing and search, native integration with SoftLayer’s CDN and a rich metadata support. These additional aspects allow it to support faster search, storage on SoftLayer’s redundant hardware around the globe and a very powerful toolkit to manage user content using SoftLayer’s Customer portal and mobile applications as well as an API to allow scripts to leverage the architecture.
SoftLayer mentioned that the Object Storage is priced at about 12 cents/GB and bandwidth utilization. The service is already made available for its US customers, and will be available for its global customers by end of February 2012.
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Created at February 20th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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This Tuesday (on February 14, 2012), Mirror Image Internet, one of the leading providers of edge computing, content delivery networks and content streaming solutions, announced that launch of its new service named “ Targeting and Authorization Suite for Live and On-Demand Video”. This solution is expected to allow users to serve all-devices and supports all-protocols for live and on-demand video.
Among the major streaming features include the support for adaptive bit-rate and support for all major protocols including RTSP, RTMP, Apple HLS, IIS Smooth Streaming, Adobe HS and even the RTP/UDP protocols, thus allowing content to be streamed to all devices including desktops, laptops, tablet devices and smart phones. The solution also features various security features like referrer domain verification, time-limited access and allows licensing restrictions based on authentication and geographical locations. Apart from this, the solution also provides extremely detailed analytics information to allow customers to make targeting decisions.
Mirror Image Internet mentioned that this is the industry’s first and only solution to support all the protocols and devices, and the Company would continue to create such innovative solutions for its customers.
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Created at February 18th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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This Monday (on February 13, 2012), Yottaa Inc., one of the providers of web performance solutions and cloud routing and network technologies, announced the launch of Yottaa CDN – the Company’s new Content Delivery Network offering, which supports both static and dynamic caching and also features various content optimization options.
The Yottaa CDN offering also offers dynamic site acceleration (DSA), thus allowing the customers to improve their end-user experience by speeding up even the dynamic content. Apart from this, since the solution directly integrates with the Yottaa Site Speed Optimizer, not only is the configuration and implementation much easier, but also it provides extremely fast performance. The Yottaa CDN also encompasses the Company’s patented cloud-routing technology and front-end optimization into a single offering, and also supports various analytics information for the customers as well.
Yottaa mentioned that the Company currently has 20 PoP locations around the globe for the CDN offering. Yottaa also got a positive testimonial from Net Effect Corporation, UK, which mentioned that the CDN speeded up their slowest portals and made them among the fastest websites.
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Created at February 17th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on February 7, 2012), Limelight Networks, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Network services and solutions, announced that they are formally launching their Managed CDN platform offering, the Limelight Deploy. This offering is aimed at allowing network operators, telecom companies and content aggregators to quickly deploy CDN on their existing infrastructure.
These enterprises and customers are looking at ways in which they can leverage their existing infrastructure and implement Content Delivery Networks to improve the scalability and performance of their networks, thus reducing the infrastructure costs and time-to-market their solutions. The proprietary CDN solution also allows customers to keep their data secure, while also allowing customers an option to leverage Limelight’s network, thus allowing more than 85% data to be delivered from the public Internet and ensuring high quality-of-service for the end users.
Limelight Deploy will work with HTTP, HTTPS, Flash and Windows Media and also provide various analytics information to the users. The Company also presented the Limelight Deploy offering in a work shop at the CDN Asia 2012 Conference.
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Created at February 8th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Friday (on February 3, 2012), Highwinds, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and online video streaming solutions, announced that it is moving towards supporting HTTP streaming for its content publishing customers and slowly but steadily remove support for streaming the content using the RTMP.
In the current times, most of the CDN providers are moving towards the cacheable HTTP streaming options, and while multiple providers like Apple, Microsoft and Adobe have their own HTTP streaming protocols, the standardized DASH protocol is slowly becoming universal. Apart from this, with the scope of innovation being limited in RTMP, Companies like Akamai and Amazon are moving towards HTTP streaming, and Highwinds is also following the suit. Highwinds also mentioned that it is planning a strategy, which will enable them to surpass Akamai’s HDNetwork in the HTTP Streaming area.
Moreover, for customers using H.264 protocols, the move is pretty straight-forward and iOS gets supported for free, and so Highwinds is working hard to move its SMIL customers to the new system. The Company still supports RTMP, but it is in the process of moving its customers to HTTP, and has stopped accepting orders of new customers who request for RTMP streaming.
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Created at February 7th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Wednesday (on February 1, 2012), SoftLayer Technologies, the leading provider of dedicated and cloud-based hosting services, announced the launch of Flex Images, its new Unified Server provisioning platform, which will allow customers capture, replicate and store an image of a cloud or dedicated server and then deploy it into either type of computing environment.
Basically, the introduction of Flex images will allow SoftLayer customers to have Universal images, which can be used interchangeably on dedicated and cloud systems, thus allowing complete flexibility and scalability. The system supports all important features like sharing, publishing, managing and archiving of images, thus allowing customers to rapidly migrate from one system to another. SoftLayer mentioned that the features are available via both the management portal as well as API to provide customers with easy deployment and better control.
The Flex images offering is expected to be a key differentiator for SoftLayer, and the Company mentioned that the offering is made available to its customers as public beta, and the general availability is expected to come sometime in Q2, 2012.
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Created at February 6th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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This Tuesday (on January 31, 2012), VBrick Systems, the leading provider of IP video solutions for enterprises, announced the launch of a Video Conference Streaming Gateway module, which will integrate with its H.264 Distributed Media Engine (DME) and allow customers to connect tens of thousands of viewers in video conferences.
The current video conferencing technology works using various different streaming technologies, but this new solution is aimed at unifying the content delivery and format management by leveraging VBrick’s technology and infrastructure and allowing the content to be streamed to PCs, laptops, tablet devices and smart phones across multiple sites. Making use of VBrick Enterprise Video Architecture (VEVA), the system provides a centralized, cost-effective and optimized way of streaming and managing huge video conferencing events.
VBrick Systems had unveiled this solution at the ISE show in Amsterdam and the Company mentioned that the solution had already been tested with a variety of SIP-compliant video conferencing products from leading providers like Cisco Tandberg, Polycom, Avaya, LifeSize and Radvision among others.
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Created at February 2nd, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Last Thursday (on January 26, 2012), GigaSpaces Technologies, one of the leading pioneers of next-generation application platforms, announced the launch of its new Multi-Site Data Replication offering, which allow customers to leverage GigaSpaces market-leading in-memory data grid (IMDG) and scaling technology to replicate their data over WAN.
The solution supports mirroring of data to GigaSpaces data grid using various API calls, configuration of replication gateways, and then the deployment of these gateways across the sites for maintaining data consistency. The solution is aimed at data recovery in case of disasters and also will fuel the next generation management of multi-site data, especially in case of Content Delivery Network solutions by ensuring that data is always in sync. Apart from this, the solution will also allow GigaSpaces customers to leverage true cloud-bursting by ensuring secure private data cloud between the primary data center and the remote site.
GigaSpaces mentioned that its multi-site data replication technology supports all advanced features including data filtering and management, along with high availability and self-healing to ensure that the customers’ data is robustly secured.
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Created at January 30th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on January 26, 2012), Limelight Networks, one of the leading providers of innovative Content Delivery Network services, announced that it had entered in a strategic alliance with video quality optimization and analytics provider, Conviva, to integrate the offerings of both Companies and provide better online video streaming capabilities to its customers.
The integration will merge the analytics information provided by Conviva and merge it with the global computing platform of Limelight Networks, to allow the latter’s customers to get various real time reports and information of how their content is being viewed and also how the CDN is performing. Apart from this, the analytics also allows the reports to be created based on geographic filters, user devices and support for various cross-platform technologies like Flash, Silverlight and HTML 5, along with RTMP and HTTP streaming protocols.
Both Limelight Networks and Conviva were happy to launch the joint offering that allows users to leverage both CDN capabilities and still have in-depth reports; and the solution is called “Embedded Insights”.
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Created at January 27th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations, New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on February 21, 2012), Akamai Technologies, one of the most leading providers of cloud-based web optimization and security offerings, announced the launch of the Akamai Kona Site Defender, which is a service designed to protecting enterprise websites from various threats and protect their applications and transactions from an array of attacks.
The Kona Site Defender makes use of the Akamai global network to provide immense scalability and protection against attacks like DDoS, TCP SYN floods, UDP floods and other network layer attacks. Apart from this, the solution provides various configuration rules to protect against HTTP protocol violations, limit HTTP request and policy limits and protection against SQL injections, cross site scripting and other application layer attacks. The system also comes with a web application firewall and analytic information to allow organizations in gauging and protecting their content better.
Akamai mentioned that it has seen a huge burst in online attacks, and the Kona Site Defender is aimed to protect its customers against these attacks. The solution is currently in limited availability and will be made available to general public from April 11, 2012.
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