Recent Research from Jim Davis

• Content Delivery Networks: Global Market Overview, 2016-2021

  By Jim Davis March 31 2017 | Technology & Business Insight

  The global CDN market is maturing and settling into a lower -- but still good -- pace of growth of 11.9% CAGR through 2021. Within the overall market, smaller companies can still achieve rapid growth through new approaches to delivery on mobile devices, for instance. However, the fastest-growing opportunity is actually security services, where quickly stopping delivery of bad requests (or exfiltration of data) is as important as accelerated content delivery.

  Managed Services & Hosting

• Akamai gains performance insight, testing capabilities with SOASTA acquisition

  By Jim Davis Nancy Gohring March 30 2017 | Market Insight

  The largest vendor of CDN services is adding performance-testing capabilities and tools for gaining insight into the user experience with the pickup of SOASTA. The target is best known for its CloudTest load- and performance-testing platform, as well as its mPulse real-user-monitoring product.

  Managed Services & Hosting Networking Development, DevOps & IT Ops

• Distil Networks brings anti-bot logic to Verizon's CDN

  By Eric Ogren Jim Davis March 20 2017 | Market Insight

  Bots, which impersonate real users while piping malicious traffic to websites, are the scourge of online applications. Distil and Verizon Digital Media Services are combining forces to strip undesirable bot activity out of customer applications hosted by Verizon's content delivery network.

  Information Security

• Vendors focus on DDoS mitigation at 2017 RSA conference

  By Jim Davis March 10 2017 | Market Insight

  How are companies keeping up with the ever evolving DDoS landscape? Arbor Networks, Akamai, Neustar and others are bulking up and adding capabilities. But so are the adversaries.

  Information Security Managed Services & Hosting

• StackPath builds its stack higher with Highwinds pickup

  By Jim Davis February 8 2017 | Market Insight

  Secure cloud services provider StackPath has acquired Highwinds Network Group, which offers CDN services. It bought Highwinds as part of a strategy to build an infrastructure services company that aims to combine web hosting, delivery and security functions into a unified platform for developers.

  Managed Services & Hosting Networking

• Instart Logic unlocks revenue for CDNs with 'ad unblocking' service

  By Jim Davis February 2 2017 | Market Insight

  The company's newest service still delivers content (in this case, ads), with the twist being that an alternate piece of content is being served to consumers who have decided to block all ads.

  Managed Services & Hosting Networking

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