Fastly, the edge cloud platform has announced the expansion of its partnership with ITV to include the use of Fastly’s Media Shield. The decision was made in the run up to ITVX’s biggest ever live-streaming event during Euro 2024, and allowed ITVX to scale up to handle millions of concurrent live-stream viewers during England’s semi-final […]
Fastly, the specialist in edge cloud platforms, has launched its annual global cybersecurity report, uncovering the scale of cyber attacks against media businesses, with each of these suffering an average of 25 known attacks this year. This report also reveals the hugely damaging financial effects of security breaches, with media businesses losing 9 per cent […]
Fastly has said that its global outage on June 8th was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. Cisco-owned ThousandEyes, which constantly monitors the Internet, released a statement from its Director of Product Angelique Medina in reaction to the news. Medina commented: “Most of the sites we visit, the apps we use and […]
An outage at edge CDN provider Fastly saw several high-profile sites off air for over an hour earlier today (June 8th) including the BBC, HBO, Hulu, Vimeo, FT, CNN, Twitch, the UK government and many more. The firm said there were issues with its global CDN and was implementing a fix. A statement said: “We […]
Datazoom, the Real-time Video Data Platform, has announced its end-to-end data collection, data standardization, and routing service for streaming Content Delivery Network (CDN) log data. Datazoom’s CDN Data Dictionary has been defined in compliance with the Common Media Client Data (CTA-5004). An important service that CDNs provide is efficient caching of video assets on behalf […]
Fastly, provider of an edge cloud platform, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Signal Sciences, for approximately $775 million (€650m) in cash and stock. Fastly says the acquisition will expand its security portfolio at a time when security at the edge has never been more critical. Signal Sciences’ developer-first web application and API […]