Craig Matsumoto is a 451 Senior Analyst focusing on the confluence of CDNs, interconnect fabrics and cloud access. 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.
The Open Compute Project continues, with Facebook and Yahoo stressing that traditional IT gear doesn't adequately scale. Open source networking equipment continues to appeal to the hyperscale players.
Having announced itself only two years ago, StackPath has reached contender status in CDNs. The startup bills itself as security as a service, but one of its greatest strengths is the physical backbone network it acquired with Highwinds. With a developer-minded focus shared by other CDN entrants, StackPath is a name to watch in the CDN market.
The startup's new PacketCOR service offers direct connections from its high-speed network into the major public clouds. The network was built for 100Gbps speeds and massive scaling, but it is finding an audience with 'normal' enterprises, too.
The company is upping its edge computing game, having found that some industrial IoT clients are attracted by the combination of CDN services and a privately owned optical backbone. If the idea pans out, IoT and edge computing could help Limelight kick-start itself back into growth mode.
In its first acquisition since Unidesk in January 2017, Citrix is buying American-French CDN provider Cedexis for its cloud-native software-defined application-delivery platform.
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