This Monday (on April 30, 2012), NetDNA, one of the leading pioneers in the Content Delivery Network domain, announced the launch of its latest Content Delivery Network offering, CloudCache, which will provide customers with an extremely easy-to-integrate and deploy CDN offering for improving their website performance and file downloads.
CloudCache.com comes with a wide set of integrations with various popular CMS including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and SocialEngine among others. Apart from this, Prestashop, one of the leading e-commerce web storefront platforms has also added one-click CloudCache.com integration to its latest version. The service makes use of 10 Gbps network connectivity with its various PoP locations around the globe and will also allow customers to have real-time SSL security using GlobalSign owing to its recent collaboration and EdgeSSL offering.
At its end, NetDNA mentioned that CloudCache was aimed at providing customers with extremely fast service at extremely affordable rates and since CloudCache.com leverages E Series transport acceleration technology from FastSoft, it is able to provide almost 1.5x faster file download rates as compared to its competition.
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Created at May 5th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on May 2, 2012), EdgeCast Networks, the world’s fastest and most reliable Content Delivery Network services provider, announced that its OpenCDN Federation platform, which is the Company’s suite of managed CDN offering is now out-of-Beta and is servicing production traffic between independent CDN operators around the globe.
The OpenCDN Federation from EdgeCast Networks, allows the network operators to provide PoP services and caching services, without having the need to install infrastructure in all the places by leveraging and trading bandwidth and storage with other providers. EdgeCast Networks has also patented a significant part of the CDN interconnection intellectual property and had announced the Licensed CDN program early this year. Moreover, OpenCDN is aimed at allowing the network operators to create and sell their CDN offerings without the need to create software, by leveraging the proven and stable technology from EdgeCast Networks.
At its end, EdgeCast Networks mentioned that it was happy with OpenCDN and CDN Federation, and as of now the providers include a large, tier-1 provider in North America and Pacnet in Asia among other participants.
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Created at May 3rd, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations, New Technology Announcements |
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This Thursday (on April 26, 2012), Turbobytes, one of the upcoming technical startups in the Content Delivery Network industry, announced the launch of its multi-platform meta-CDN service, which allows customers to leverage services of four different CDN networks as of now, in real-time to optimize delivery of content and costs.
Basically, what Turbobytes does is that it creates an engine by addition of a non-blocking JavaScript code and the engine will analyze data in real-time and make decision about which of the CDNs to use for providing best performance results. Turbobytes makes use of Dyn for DNS and optimization and reconfigures the DNS settings based on region, country and even state-levels to provide maximum performance. The offering also provides a dashboard, which shows the performance of different CDNs in different regions in real-time, thus allowing the system to make intelligent switching decisions.
Turbobytes mentioned that since it allows customers to use different CDNs without needing to make major changes in their system or create accounts with different CDN providers, its Multi-CDN offering is expected to provide great results. As of now, the Company leverages EdgeCast Networks, Level 3 Communications, Internap and NetDNA, and the Company will be adding more CDN providers to its list later.
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Created at April 28th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on April 26, 2012), Internap Network Services Corporation, the leading provider of intelligent and scalable IT infrastructure solutions, announced that CipSoft GmbH, one of the leading Germany-based providers of online games, has selected Internap’s managed hosting and global, route-optimized Performance IP services to supports its growing player base.
CipSoft mentioned that it had released Tibia, the world’s first graphical massively multi-player online role playing games (MMORPG), and since the game now has more than three hundred thousand players around the globe, it needed required bandwidth and scalability to provide high-performance gaming. CipSoft mentioned that it needed a good gaming support provider and the 100% uptime SLA and the geographically optimized global network of Internap also helps CipSoft meet the traffic peaks that hit during its bi-annual game updates or vacation seasons.
At its end, Internap mentioned that was happy with the deal, and had already been selected by more than 30% of the top Internet gaming companies for its CDN, colocation, enterprise IP and intelligent routing solutions.
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Created at April 27th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Yesterday (on April 24, 2012), NetDNA, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Network services and GlobalSign, a leading solutions provider for online security, announced that they have collaborated together to launch EdgeSSL, which is a one-stop secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate solution for NetDNA’s CDN customers.
With a lot of websites and portal owners looking for a secure as well as a high performance solution, the EdgeSSL provides them with a 256-bit encryption security and a web-based certificate security offering, which leveraging NetDNA’s global network for high performance. The EdgeSSL also leverages a tight integration and automation capabilities of GlobalSign’s OneClickSSL to provide customers with a simple and stream-lined process that includes everything from buying to deploying a GlobalSign web-security certificate in real-time. Moreover, since the EdgeSSL stacks are on NetDNA’s network, they also reduce the computation load on client’s origin server and networks.
GlobalSign also made NetDNA a GlobalSign Partner and both NetDNA and GlobalSign were happy with the launch of EdgeSSL. GlobalSign also mentioned that it was delighted to have NetDNA on-board and providing trusted SSL certificates with OneClickSSL to NetDNA’s customers.
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Created at April 25th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations, New Technology Announcements |
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Last Wednesday (on April 18, 2012), ChinaCache, the China-based Content Delivery Network and IP services providing branch of ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd., announced that it had signed a contract with Unity Technologies ApS (Unity), which provides an award-winning development platform for games and other applications.
As part of the deal, ChinaCache will provide CDN services to Unity for providing faster software downloads to the latter’s customers, especially in China and Asia regions. Unity mentioned that it had required a scalable and reliable provider to ensure high quality and performance delivery of its platform and content, especially in the rapidly growing user-based in Asia-Pacific region and that is where, with is wide reach and high performance, the ChinaCache CDN solution was a perfect fit.
At its end, ChinaCache mentioned that it was happy with the deal and it would closely work with Unity to provide the latter with various security and cloud-based solutions in addition to the CDN for meeting with its requirements better.
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Created at April 24th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Today (on April 23, 2012), Highwinds, the leading provider of content delivery, network and cloud-based IP services, announced that it had been selected by Online Warmongers to improve the delivery and network performance of the production version of its AAA-rated free-to-play shooter game, War Inc. Battle Zone, which had more than a million players in its Beta.
Since the game required immense scalability and network reach to provide high performance content delivery, Online Warmongers decided to leverage Highwinds Game Delivery Network (GDN), which is the first game-delivery specific CDN offering. Apart from the GDN, Highwinds will also use its StrikeTracker 2 console to provide Online Warmongers with analytics and information about player geography, completion ratio and other real-time information, thus allowing the latter’s marketing team to make strategic decisions.
At its end, Highwinds mentioned that it was extremely happy with the deal and the prospect of working with and helping a customer like Online Warmongers, which seemed to have a lot of potential of growth, in growing and expanding their global reach.
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Created at April 23rd, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Wednesday (on April 18, 2012), Level 3 Communications, the leading provider of fiber-based communication services, announced that the Paris-based media services provider, Hexaglobe had selected the network provider to provide reliable and fast delivery of its high-quality video content to its media and broadcast customers.
As part of its deal, Level 3 will be providing high-speed IP services to Hexaglobe for supporting its rich media streaming and content management services. By leveraging the global services of Level 3, Hexaglobe will also be able to get increased connectivity in not only Europe, but also in the United Stated. Moreover, since the solution provides scalability by distributing the load, it will allow Hexaglobe to provide rich media without having performance hiccups, even when there are spikes in traffic.
Both Level 3 and Hexaglobe mentioned that they were happy with the deal, and Level 3 mentioned that it is also working at upgrading its global network to support its customers better.
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Created at April 22nd, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Tuesday (on April 17, 2012), Akamai Technologies, the global leader in Content Delivery Network services and web-optimization solutions, announced that it had been selected by the Fiat Group Automobiles as a major partner for improving the performance of the corporate and brand websites of the latter.
As part of its website optimization plan, Fiat has deployed three solutions from Akamai, namely, Dynamic Site Accelerator Secure, Mobile Detection and Redirect and Web Application Accelerator. The main goal of leveraging the Dynamic Site Accelerator Secure and Mobile Detection and Redirect solutions is to reduce the abandonment by improving customer experience on both desktops and smart phones, whereas the Web Application Accelerator is expected to improve the performance of Fiat’s CRM portal located around the globe.
Akamai mentioned that it was happy to be selected by Fiat Group and mentioned that after its solutions were deployed, the Fiat websites (like the Alfa Romeo Website) saw an improvement of 195% globally, with as high as 281 in certain regions. The CRM portal link also speeded up by up to 300% in certain regions, thus providing better reliability and performance to Fiat’s customers.
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Created at April 20th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Tuesday (on April 17, 2012), Level 3 Communications, one of the leading providers of network services and Content Delivery Network solutions, announced that it had been selected as the exclusive provider for broadcast services and Content Delivery Network for the upcoming World Triathlon Series by International Triathlon Union (ITU), which is the governing body for Triathlon.
The ITU World Triathlon Series will see athletes from around the globe compete in eight-city series and the races will involve 1.5 km swim, 40 km biking and a 10 km run, and there is also a shorter version, which involves 0.75 km swim, 20 km biking and 5 km run. Since the Triathlon is extremely popular and had audience in more than 160 countries around the globe, the ITU wanted a solution that would help ensure fast streaming of videos and all performance, reliability and scalability for its online presence, and that is where it selected Level 3.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that it was happy with the deal, which would involve ITU use both, Level 3’s Vyvx Video Broadcasting offering for encoding and video streaming, and its global Content Delivery Network offering for better performance and scalability.
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Created at April 20th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Monday (on April 30, 2012), NetDNA, one of the leading pioneers in the Content Delivery Network domain, announced the launch of its latest Content Delivery Network offering, CloudCache, which will provide customers with an extremely easy-to-integrate and deploy CDN offering for improving their website performance and file downloads.
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