Today (on January 30, 2012), GoGrid, one of the leading providers of managed and cloud-based hosting solutions and content optimization services, announced that Condé Nast Digital Germany, one of the leading German magazines publishers, is leveraging the GoGrid hybrid architecture for providing high-speed and reliable browsing experience to its website audience.
Actually, first Condé Nast Digital Germany, just moved one of its publications, Glamour, to the hybrid architecture of GoGrid, and then impressed by the performance and the amount of data security provided by GoGrid, the publisher moved its other top titles including GQ and Vogue to GoGrid as well. Condé Nast Digital Germany mentioned that it was extremely sensitive about the data security issue, and with its dedicated machines that natively run MySQL and extremely stringent data security practices, GoGrid’s hybrid model became the best choice for it.
Condé Nast Digital Germany also mentioned that moving to GoGrid gave it huge amount of scalability and also reduced their infrastructure costs drastically. The Compay mentioned that it was planning on moving a fourth publication, Myself to GoGrid’s infrastructure in the near future.
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Tags: cloud computing, content delivery, gogrid, Website Optimizers
Created at January 30th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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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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Tags: cdn, content delivery, content delivery network, mobile content delivery, streaming media
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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Tags: content delivery, content delivery network, streaming media, video cdn, video streaming
Created at January 20th, 2012 in Funding and Expansion |
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Today (on January 19, 2012), Jet-Stream, one of the leading providers of next-generation Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions and Xstream, one of the leading providers of streaming services and over-the-top video delivery platform, announced a strategic partnership to improve the offerings that the Companies offer to their global clients.
The partnership is expected to be symbiotic and Jet-Stream will leverage the MediaMaker, online video platform of Xstream for delivering streamed media on its Content Delivery Network. Similarly, the Xstream clients will be benefited by the innovative solutions, intelligent CDN technology and global network of Jet-Stream for faster and more reliable delivery of their content. The scalability and increased reach of the combined solutions is expected to help both the Companies in creating more value addition to their clients.
At their end, both Xstream and Jet-Stream mentioned that they were happy with this development and that the strategic alliance will help both Companies to reach mutual customers and also expand their reach into newer markets.
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Tags: content delivery, content delivery network, jet-stream, streaming media, video streaming
Created at January 19th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Friday (on January 13, 2012), ChinaCache, the largest Content Delivery Network provider based in China, announced that it was selected to help support the online rush during the third round of pre-sales for the Xiaomi smart phones, which have been launched by Xiaomi Technology Company, one of the leading providers of smart phones in China.
Xiaomi mentioned that it was expecting a huge surge in traffic on the day it would open the pre-sales and needed a good and reliable CDN to manage that spike and also support security of the online payments and that is where with its advanced global CDN services, managed IDC resources and cloud computing solutions, ChinaCache helped them. The Company mentioned that using the global network of ChinaCache, Xiaomi was able to support the order of more than 500 thousand smart phones that came in on the pre-launch day.
At its end, ChinaCache mentioned that it was extremely happy to support Xiaomi manage its traffic spikes better and it would continue to support the smart phone provider with its services in the future.
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Tags: cdn, chinacache, cloud computing, content delivery, content delivery network
Created at January 15th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Yesterday (on January 9, 2012), Level 3 Communications, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and other fiber-based solutions, announced that iMusti Inc., one of the global providers of Indian music and video content had selected its Caching and Download service for providing fast and reliable streaming services for their end-customers.
By leveraging the global infrastructure and the widely spread network of Level 3 Communications, iMusti would be able to scale up to the increasing requirements of bandwidth, storage and parallel connections needed by its customers. Apart from easily being able to store even the full-length movies, iMusti found the high upload and download performance of Level 3 critical for ensuring better streaming and quality-of-service to its customers irrespective of the device they are using, thus improving their overall experience and loyalty.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that the popularity of Indian music and videos has grown exponentially in recent times and so it is honored to be selected by iMusti for the worldwide distribution of its rich media content.
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Tags: content delivery, content delivery network, level 3, streaming media, video streaming
Created at January 10th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Yesterday (on December 19, 2011), Aryaka, the world’s first provider of cloud-based WAN optimizations and application acceleration services, announced that 2011 had been a great year for the Company and it had not only built a stable and scalable solution, but also got a growing customer base for its secure global network solutions.
What Aryaka does is that it combines multiple access methods, data and applications and also supports content delivery through various data centers using the cloud, thus allowing huge performance gains, while reducing the overall complexity that normal MPLS or Content Delivery Networks would have to face. The Company also mentioned that various CDN providers are planning to partner with it, and the enterprises that have adopted Aryaka’s solutions are seeing performance improvements as high as 70 times, whereas their WAN traffic has also reduced to almost 98% by localizing and intelligent routing and network connectivity.
The startup also mentioned that its customer base is growing steadily; it now has 25 PoP locations around the globe and it is getting more industry recognition and acceptance. Ajit Gupta, the Founder, President and CEO of Aryaka, also mentioned that they are looking forward for a great 2012, where they want to reinforce its reputation as an industry leader and reach out further through expansion and partnership programs.
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Created at December 20th, 2011 in Funding and Expansion |
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Today (on December 19, 2011), VidScale, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Network services and other bandwidth optimization solutions, announced that Avail-TVN, the leading provider of digital media services in North America, had selected its CDN and transparent caching solution for creating its AnyView multi-screen, multiplatform offering.
With the AnyView solution, Avail-TVN is aiming to create a digital media delivery solution that can support and enhance the video delivery onto TVs, desktops, laptops, tablet devices and smart phones, thus supporting all platforms including iOS and Android along with Microsoft and Linux. Avail-TVN needed a solution that could help it in deploying carrier-class CDN quickly, and that is where with its robust architecture, high scalability and support for multi-tier architectures the MediaWrap solution of VidScale was considered and deployed.
Both Avail-TVN and VidScale were happy with the collaboration and VidScale mentioned that it was working hard to leverage the capability, knowledge and features that it had w.r.t. carrier-class CDN software and bandwidth optimization solutions for improving the user-experience of Avail-TVN’s customers.
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Created at December 19th, 2011 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Yesterday (on December 14, 2011), ChinaCache, the leading provider of Content Delivery Network services in China, announced that Shanghai branch of China Telecom Corporation Ltd, or Shanghai Telecom will be leveraging its acceleration services and solutions to provide high performance and better quality of service to its end-users.
Shanghai Telecom will work closely with ChinaCache and implement the Content-aware network of the latter to ensure that its servers are supported properly, thus ensuring high scalability. Moreover, the use of ChinaCache will also allow Shanghai Telecom to keep its download speeds amongst the fastest that are supported by the Chinese carriers. This latest win from ChinaCache is in-line with its global expansion to reach out to more customers and will also allow Shanghai Telecom in getting a reliable and scalable solution, thus making it a symbiotic development for both the Companies.
ChinaCache mentioned that it was extremely happy with this new agreement, which demonstrated the capability and value addition that its solutions can provide to the telecom carriers.
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Created at December 15th, 2011 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Yesterday (on December 13, 2011), Internap Network Services Corporation, one of the leading providers of intelligent and scalable infrastructure solutions, announced that its new 55,000 square feet commercial space providing Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Data Center located in Plano, Texas, will be officially opened on December 15, 2011 (i.e. tomorrow).
The new Data Center not only uses the modular power configurations of up to 12KW per rack and follows amongst the best green designs and energy efficient solutions, which has also led to the Data Center’s applying for LEED, Green Globes and Energy Star Certifications. Internap mentioned that with the businesses growing in DFW area, the current data center space was expected to get exhausted by 2013 and the new Data Center is expected to provide buffer to this growth by providing managed hosting, colocation as well as Internap’s patented MIRO route-optimized Performance IP services.
Internap mentioned that it will have an official open house tomorrow between 4PM to 7PM CT, and Roger Staubach will make a special guest appearance at the inauguration event.
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Tags: colocation, content delivery, data center, internap
Created at December 14th, 2011 in Funding and Expansion |
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