Craig Matsumoto is a Senior Analyst at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, focusing on the confluence of CDNs, interconnect fabrics and edge computing. Craig has covered service provider and enterprise networking since the dot-com bubble of 1999, including more than 10 years at Light Reading, where he covered broad topics including optical networking, routing and the then-new beat of software-defined networking. He also spent four years at SDxCentral, delving further into SDN, NFV and container technologies.
Before joining 451, Craig spent one year back at Light Reading as editor-in-chief. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering mathematics from UC Berkeley.
Limelight Networks CEO Bob Lento has announced his retirement, effective February 1, and the company has named Bob Lyons, most recently CEO at managed detection and response vendor Alert Logic, as his successor.
The company is pursuing a multipronged security strategy in a bid to reduce the traditional lag involved in deploying telecom services. Lumen is also extending its security strategy to the edge, to accelerate and secure applications closer to where they are consumed.
When it comes to distributing an application globally, Macrometa is tackling the difficult problem of keeping different app instances up-to-date with one another. The company has developed a NoSQL database that can manage this, even across multiple clouds, and has completed a seed round to continue evolving its Global Data Network.
Last October, Fastly completed its $775m acquisition of Signal Sciences. Within two months, it noted several significant transactions that leverage the new combined offering, matching Fastly products with acquired Signal Science's web application firewall capabilities.
Some networking services introduced at AWS re:Invent this year open possibilities for the company to partner with third parties such as SD-WAN vendors " while also opening new competitive intersections. Others strengthen AWS's networking services outside the datacenter, where it has begun encroaching on telcos and other network service providers.
Aviatrix offers multicloud network management, unifying control and visibility across multiple clouds. The new Epsilon Cloud Networking combines those abilities with private transit over Epsilon's SDN-driven network.
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