GLG News by Content Delivery Services Experts

This past Monday, Oprah webcast her second class online and peaked at 200,000 simultaneous viewers. While that was down from the 500,000 simultaneous viewers she had for her first class, it's to be expected and is not any indication of failure.

1) Due diligence is expected and the news of tightening belts was predicted. 2) In the last quarter we have found all verticals are experiencing some level of conservative spending. 3) However, we have also seen increased spending with some vendors and/or specific vendor products and solutions. ...

Google's team edition of Google apps seems like an IT worst nightmare: all the company documents on a public server. But is it really that bad? What about having all your sales leads on a public server, wouldn't that be even worse? Oh wait isn't that what salesforce.com is all about? Completely outsourced...

1) Despite economic uncertainty, data center demand is strong. 2) The data center economy is smarter and stronger than ever.

1) Telecom and data center assets are highly specific infrastruture. 2) Both require significant investment and lead times to deploy. 3) For data center forecasts, the starting point is real estate.

So if even a MySpace has bugs that exposes private data of their users to anyone on the web, then what about all the other web sites where we enter our private data? How do we know that the banking web site or the credit card web site doesn't have the same kinds of "bugs"? Consumers are trusting more...

Sun is buying MySQL for almost a billion dollars. This looks like a big gamble. Why are they doing this? Is MySQL worth that much?

This morning, Google indexed a filing from December 17th from Level 3 Communications who filed a patent infringement suit against Limelight Networks (Case number 2:2007cv00589) in the District Court of Virgina. I have not been able to get a copy of the filing as of yet but I was able to speak to Level...

Hot on the heels of EdgeCast announcing it had raised $6 million dollars, content delivery provider CDNetworks announced late yesterday that it had raised $96.5 million in private placement. For CDNetworks, this funding now gives them the ability to make a serious push in the U.S. market for content...

As we near the end of 2007, I've seen a few reports estimating the CDN space to have been anywhere between $800 million and $1.4 billion for the year. The reports I have seen do not break out what specific "CDN" products they are talking to and how those numbers were calculated. So with that in mind,...