by Lydia Leong | May 14, 2011 | Comments Off
3Crowd has unveiled its master plan with the recent launch of its CrowdCache product. Previously, 3Crowd had a service called CrowdDirector, essentially load-balancing for content providers who use multiple CDNs. CrowdCache is much more interesting, and it gives life and context to the existence of CrowdDirector. CrowdCache is a small, free, Java application that you [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN
by Lydia Leong | January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
A little change of pace today, back to some CDN market news… Rackspace forms a strategic alliance with Akamai. Today, Rackspace’s Cloud Files storage service is integrated with Limelight’s CDN. The new alliance means that Akamai will be replacing Limelight as the CDN, and some new features will be offered as the integration is done. [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN, news
by Lydia Leong | December 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
EdgeCast has announced the beta of its new application delivery network service. For those of you who are CDN-watchers, that means it’s leaping into the fray with Akamai (Dynamic Site Accelerator and Web Application Accelerator, bundles where DSA is B2C and WAA is B2B), Cotendo’s DSA, and CDNetworks’s Dynamic Web Acceleration. EdgeCast’s technology is another [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN
by Lydia Leong | November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
How to tell when a CDN has arrived: Akamai sues them for patent infringement. The lawsuit that Akamai has filed against Cotendo alleges the violation of three patents. The most recent of the patents, 7,693,959, is dated April 2010, but it’s a continuation of several previous applications — its age is nicely demonstrated by things [...]
by Lydia Leong | November 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Dan Rayburn’s blg post about the Akamai/Netflix relationship seems to have set off something of a firestorm, and I’ve been deluged by inquiries from Gartner Invest clients about it. I do not want to add fuel to the fire by speculating on anything, and I have access to confidential information that prevents me from stating [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN
by Lydia Leong | November 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Those of you who are Gartner clients know that in the last year, my colleague Joe Skorupa and I have become excited about the emergence of software-based application acceleration via page optimization approaches, as exemplified by vendors like Aptimize and Strangeloop Networks. (Clients: See Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2010.) This approach to acceleration enhances [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, Google
by Lydia Leong | October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
A lot of Gartner Invest clients are calling to ask about the AT&T deal with Cotendo. Since I’m swamped, I’m doing a blog post, and the inquiry coordinators will try to set up a single conference call. I’ve known about this deal for a long time, but I’ve been respecting AT&T and Cotendo’s request to [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN, symposium
by Lydia Leong | May 27, 2010 | Comments Off
Here’s a round-up of what I’ve written lately, for those of you that are Gartner clients and are following my research: Data Center Managed Services: Regional Differences in the Move Toward the Cloud is about how the IaaS market will evolve differently in each of the major regions of the world. We’re seeing significant adoption [...]
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Category: Industry Tags: CDN, Cloud, Gartner, hosting, research
by Lydia Leong | April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
A client evaluating cloud computing solutions asked me about Cogent’s Utility Computing offering (and showed me a nice little product sheet for it). Never having heard of it before, and not having a clue from the marketing collateral what this was actually supposed to be (and finding zero public information about it), I got in [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN
by Lydia Leong | April 7, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m currently working on writing a research note called “Who’s Who in Content Delivery Networks“. The CDN space isn’t quite large enough yet to justify one of Gartner’s formal rating methodologies (the Magic Quadrant or MarketScope), but with the proliferation of vendors who can credibly serve enterprise customers, the market deserves a vendor note. The [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN, Gartner, research
