This Tuesday (on February 14, 2012), GoGrid, one of the leading providers of cloud-based infrastructure services, announced that Microgroove, one of the leading providers of software to many of the most popular music websites, is leveraging its cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service solution to provide unparalleled scalability to its customers.
Earlier, the Companies that used Microgroove’s platform had to host the Company’s platform themselves, and while many of these Companies setup their own data centers and networks, it only allowed them to use traditional colocation. However, by making use of GoGrid, not only would Microgroove’s customers not have to worry about the logistics of infrastructure management, but also they would get better reliability and performance owing to GoGrid’s Content Delivery Network, which will relay the data to the viewers from its closest PoP rather than a central data center.
Both Microgroove and GoGrid were happy with the deal, and Microgroove mentioned that earlier it had found managing its customers’ data expensive and difficult, but now with GoGrid, it could focus on its innovations better. The Company moved more than 100 of its music websites to GoGrid’s infrastructure.
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Created at February 18th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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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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Last Wednesday (on February 8, 2012), Limelight Networks, the leading provider of Content Delivery Network services and web optimization solutions, announced that the Punjab Kesari Group, one of the leading publishing houses in India, had selected its global computing platform and cloud-based optimization services for managing its online content.
With more than a million viewers around the globe, the Punjab Kesari Group needed a solution that could not only scale up to its growing needs, but also provide high quality-of-service to its viewers. Apart from this, the Company has also started building its own online video library and needed a platform to store its existing 5000 videos and play the ones published on the website extremely fast, and that is where Limelight Networks pitched in. The publisher would leverage the Limelight Deliver and Limelight Video platform for better streaming and management of the content, while also getting various monetization options and analytics for the content.
Both Limelight Networks and Punjab Kesari Group mentioned that they were happy with the deal, and Limelight mentioned that since India has seen more than 25% growth in number of online visitors in last year, it was looking forward to expand and collaborate more with the growing Indian Companies.
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Created at February 16th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Last Tuesday (on February 7, 2012), CDNetworks, the only multinational Content Delivery Network provider that has local infrastructure in six continents including mainland China, announced that it has entered in a strategic alliance with Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN) to improve the web experience for Hong Kong’s growing online audience.
As part of the deal, CDNetworks will optimize the international transit links of HKBN by leveraging its global network, and improve the application performance and web content delivery by fetching the content and bringing it near the visitor. With its advanced caching solutions, CDNetworks will also reduce the CDN traffic for the service providers by as much as 95 percent. Apart from this, since CDNetworks already has a strong presence in the APAC region, it was the logical choice for HKBN, Hong Kong’s fastest growing broadband service provider.
Both CDNetworks and HKBN were happy with the deal, which will allow better Internet services and faster content delivery to Hong Kong-based traffic.
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Created at February 15th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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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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This Saturday (on February 4, 2012), HostColor.com, one of the leading providers of web hosting and IT infrastructure services, announced that it would be leveraging the services of the fast growing and popular Content Delivery Network service from NetDNA for improving the performance, scalability and reliability of its webhosting offerings.
As part of the current deal, all the customers of HostColor will be provided with a one-month free trial of NetDNA’s services and then the interested customers could also use the coupon CDN2HC for getting a 25% discount on NetDNA’s services. HostColor had mentioned in December that it would be adding CDN services to its offerings, and at that time, it had provided support for CloudFlare, and mentioned that it would add one more service by Q1, 2012. This is where the NetDNA’s addition falls into place, and the customers will be provided the free trial till the end of February 2012.
Both NetDNA and HostColor were happy about the partnership, and the NetDNA offering will be made available to all customers of its hosting plans, including dedicated, shared and VPS hosting customers.
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Created at February 6th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Yesterday (on January 31, 2012), EdgeCast Networks, the world’s fastest and most reliable Content Delivery Network service provider, announced that it had doubled all, its revenue, customer base and employee headcount in the fruitful year 2011 as compared to the respective numbers in 2010, thus showcasing the Company’s strong growth.
Among the major changes included the expansion of EdgeCast Networks in providing licensed CDN services to various telecommunication Companies including a major telco in the US and Pacnet in Asia, and the EdgeCast Application Delivery Network offering for dynamic site acceleration. The Company also added PoP in Madrid and Osaka, and with its fast performance and 100 percent uptime record, the CDN provider added more than a thousand new customers in 2011, including big names like DailyMotion and Imgur, thus crossing 4000 customers.
EdgeCast Networks mentioned that it was extremely happy with the numbers, and 2011 had been a record year of growth. The management mentioned that while they are proud of the good results, the Company is now focusing on making 2012 an even more successful year in terms of growth and network reach.
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Created at February 1st, 2012 in Funding and Expansion |
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This Monday (on January 23, 2012), Juniper Networks, one of the leaders in network innovation and BitGravity Inc., the Content Delivery Network subsidiary owned by Tata Communications, announced that the former had acquired rights to the service management layer of the CDN entity, which will allow it create additional integrated CDN solutions for its customers.
As part of the deal, BitGravity will integrate Juniper’s Media Flow solution to its Content Delivery Network offering, thus allowing faster and better content delivery of rich media and streamed content to its customers. The solution will also target multiple screens and reach out to PCs, laptops, tablets and smart phones, thus allowing customers to stream their content to wider audiences, thus providing additional monetizing options. At its end, Tata Communications will continue to expand and improve its Content Delivery Network services in parallel.
Juniper mentioned that it was happy with the acquisition, and its stock prices also soared at the news. Nevertheless, the financial terms of this acquisition are not revealed.
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Tags: acquisitions, bitgravity, content delivery network, juniper networks, tata communications
Created at January 25th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations, Mergers & Acquistions |
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Today (on January 23, 2012), Jet-Stream, the award winning market leader in Content Delivery Networks and Saguna Networks, one of the leading providers in Radio Access Network (RAN) application acceleration, announced that they will be entering into a strategic alliance for providing various solutions and offerings for creating content delivery networks for mobile devices.
As part of this offering, the Companies are combining the Saguna CODS from Saguna Networks and the VideoExchange Content Delivery Network technology of Jet-Stream to provide the customers with a solution that can integrate their RAN infrastructure with the scalable and reliable global network of Jet-Stream. Apart from this, the mobile operators can also leverage this solution to stream OTT content and also monetize it by reaching out much faster to a larger audience, thanks to the approach of leveraging the federated CDN.
Both Saguna Networks and Jet-Stream were happy with the collaboration and mentioned that they would showcase the unified offering in February end at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona.
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Created at January 23rd, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Recently, Verizon, one of the leading providers of bundled solutions like wireless devices, TV, Internet and businesses, announced that it is working on a streaming video content delivery solution and video advertising platform for its customers. The solution is actually a Verizon-powered Content Delivery Network aimed at the enterprise customers of Verizon.
The Verizon platform supports true unicast delivery, with support for multiple screens, multiple networks and diverse devices. The system also makes use of adaptive technology and comes with various monetizing options so the customers can make use of the advertising solutions for their content. Apart from this, Verizon also mentioned that the new platform would allow its customers to have unmatched scalability and the wide array of analytics will also provide them with ability to make better marketing decisions.
The Company also leverages its internal backbone that has a capacity between 40-100 Gbps, has deployed 30 data centers around the globe, owing to which its customers can stream and manage data at extremely fast speeds.
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Created at January 20th, 2012 in Funding and Expansion |
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