Content Delivery Network News & Articles

These days Web publishing is less like making great music in a band, and more like managing an entire orchestra. With that thought in mind, Limelight Networks is introducing Limelight Orchestrate.

Google (news, site) recently unveiled its Page Optimization Service, promising anywhere from 20% to 65% page speed improvement. Currently on a free, limited trial, the service supposedly improves page delivery and loading time by distributing the load across Google servers worldwide. But at what cost?

The use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices has grown rapidly over the last decade, allowing consumers to become constantly connected. Despite the enormous market potential, the mobile experience that many organizations provide is nothing less than painfully slow -- a definite negative in the impatient world of the web. Content delivery network (CDN) provider Cotendo (news, site) has announced an offering that might help. Cotendo has announced an extension of its web acceleration service, the Mobile Acceleration Suite (MAS), that can significantly reduce page load times on mobile devices. 

Canadian startup Blaze Software, founded in 2010 and based in Ottawa, has announced the launch of its cloud-based Web Performance Optimization (WPO) service. Blaze’s WPO promises to optimize web front ends for organizations struggling to provide ever-elusive responsiveness in increasingly rich web applications with a growing set of delivery channels including tablets, smart phones, laptops and traditional computing devices. After a year of development and beta use by a subset of customers, Blaze and its services launch today.

The rise in demand for mobile applications and web applications can put a strain on data centers and bandwidth. To address the need to improve performance in cloud computing, IBM (news, site) and Akamai (news, site) have developed the WebSphere Application Accelerator, which will improve performance of web and cloud applications through distributed computing.

Cotendo, a site acceleration and content delivery network (CDN), announced the general availability of a cloud-based CDN, Cloudlet. The CDN provides better support for targeted and personalized content, a necessity for Web 2.0 style sites.

SoftLayer announced additional features for CDNLayer, the company’s unique content delivery network. CDNLayer is a worldwide system of server nodes scaled and optimized for delivery of large files.

For example, if you have a dozen zipped audiobooks you sell via your website and the files average one gigabyte in size, Softlayer’s CDNLayer option may meet your needs.

The news that Amazon is now offering a low-cost CDN has likely excited many people. Aptly named CloudFront, this service is stirring up a lot of attention. In our overview of the new service, we outlined the basic steps to use CloudFront.

In this post, we thought we would give you a little more detail on those steps to help you get started sooner.

Well known as being the pioneer for cloud computing services, Amazon has released the beta version of its latest initiative — a content delivery network. Amazon’s CloudFront CDN is cheap enough that SMB web publishers are now able to serve their more popular content to their customers quickly and easily.

Brightcove, a video distribution platform, has undergone major changes that will help make this platform an impressive solution for customers looking to produce and distribute video content on the Web.

From tiered pricing to API enhancements, this might be the most impressive release from Brightcove yet.

Almost everyone remembers The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, in which Mickey Mouse uses the complex wizarding powers of another to foible a bit but ultimately launch himself into film history. Now Modavox customers can do almost the same thing with Webcast Wizard, a one-stop software that enables clients to publish audio, video and multimedia presentations over the Internet with all the features of a spit-and-polish professional webcast.