Running a global high-performance web platform has never been more challenging. Web operators must contend with tuning site delivery to perform equally well from Beijing to Boston, Savannah to Sao Paulo. Site owners must also deal with accelerating device proliferation and social media-induced[...]
Nvidia and Baidu Join Forces to Take AI to Devices and Cloud The Chinese powerhouse Baidu and Nvidia, the chipmaker company, have revealed a newly formed strategic partnership. The goal of the partnership is to accelerate the development of AI solutions for vehicles, cloud data centers and IoT[...]
One does not need to be an expert in the area of cloud computing to be aware of the public cloud trifecta, the three tech giants of the public cloud space. Amazon, Microsoft and Google hold the entire landscape with their respective products. As the title suggest, Amazon Web Services (AWS),[...]
Picture a world where machines (advanced analytics systems) predict bottlenecks for humans and route traffic to its most appropriate CDN and optimal proxy. This is not far from being true. Let's take an example of a self-driving car. With the help of algorithms and sensors, a self driving car[...]
120,000 Sites Affected by Cloudflare Data Leak A severe security flaw in Cloudflare’s systems was disclosed last week. Apparently, it leaked customer data, live samples, encryption keys, cookies, passwords, POST data chunks and even HTTPS requests due to a Heartlbleed-like bug. The system flaw was[...]
If your business relies heavily on online assets, then for sure you have already switched to HTTP/2, the new and improved protocol to deliver online content. New features like server push, full multiplexing and improved parallelism, along with attached advanced technologies, make the performance[...]
Next-Gen Bot Management Platform Announced by ZENEDGE Last week cybersecurity company ZENEDGE announced their new and improved bot management platform. Their current bot protection technologies will be upgraded with behavioral analysis and device fingerprinting. As malicious bots evolve, they learn[...]
AWS Has Slower Growth But Is Still More Profitable Than Ever AWS's revenues reached $12.3 bn in 2016 which is close to a quarter of Amazon’s total revenue. Even though their growth rate went down 12% YoY, AWS raised their margin to 25% (from 19%) in 2016 and resulted more profitable than ever[...]
Verizon Will Offer Bot Protection Through Distil Networks Last week Verizon Digital Media Services and Distil Networks announced a partnership aimed at delivering bot protection services across Verizon’s Edgecast CDN. Verizon is expanding their current security portfolio which offers DDoS mitigation
