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Is Fastly a competitor to Akamai?

by javiramos 8y ago

skrebbel 8y ago
Yes, and to Cloudflare.
- user5994461 8y ago
  And to MaxCDN, another second tier US competitor, like Fastly.
  - neom 8y ago
    MaxCND (awesome folks!!) got acquired by StackPath.
    - mxpxrocks10 8y ago
      aww :-) <high five>
firebird84 8y ago
Under the "Risks" section they specifically mention their competitors: The market for cloud computing platforms, particularly enterprise grade products, is highly fragmented, competitive, and constantly evolving. With the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect that the competitive environment in which we compete will remain intense going forward. Legacy CDNs, such as Akamai, Limelight, EdgeCast (part of Verizon Digital Media), Level3, and Imperva, and small business-focused CDNs, such as Cloudflare, InStart, StackPath, and Section.io, offer products that compete with ours.
- tyingq 8y ago
  "small business-focused CDNs, such as Cloudflare" That's an interesting statement. Supposedly, 10% of web requests on the internet route through Cloudflare. And I imagine their free tier has plenty of non-business use.
  - firebird84 8y ago
    They may be distinguishing them based on their type of customer, rather than their quantity of traffic. Other CDNs may tend to exclusively pursue much larger customers like big banks, governments, etc., while Cloudflare from my understanding is quite happy to serve the smaller market segment.
    - tyingq 8y ago
      Ahh, yes, I read it as "small, business-focused CDN" though there's no comma there. You're right..they meant focused on "small business." I suppose the dash threw me off.
      - boulos 8y ago
        Fascinating, that’s because they did the dash wrong for the compound adjective. It should have been the ugly but correct “small-business-focused CDN”. If they didn’t want to double hyphenate then “small-business focused” would have been read properly by everyone. But you definitely parsed their “small[,] business-focused” correctly :).
        tyingq 8y ago
        Makes me appreciate the importance of grammar a bit more. I assumed I was reading it wrong. Thanks for sharing the detail.

Is Fastly a competitor to Akamai?

skrebbel 8y ago

Yes, and to Cloudflare.

user5994461 8y ago
And to MaxCDN, another second tier US competitor, like Fastly.
- neom 8y ago
  MaxCND (awesome folks!!) got acquired by StackPath.
  - mxpxrocks10 8y ago
    aww :-) <high five>

firebird84 8y ago

Under the "Risks" section they specifically mention their competitors: The market for cloud computing platforms, particularly enterprise grade products, is highly fragmented, competitive, and constantly evolving. With the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect that the competitive environment in which we compete will remain intense going forward. Legacy CDNs, such as Akamai, Limelight, EdgeCast (part of Verizon Digital Media), Level3, and Imperva, and small business-focused CDNs, such as Cloudflare, InStart, StackPath, and Section.io, offer products that compete with ours.

tyingq 8y ago
"small business-focused CDNs, such as Cloudflare" That's an interesting statement. Supposedly, 10% of web requests on the internet route through Cloudflare. And I imagine their free tier has plenty of non-business use.
- firebird84 8y ago
  They may be distinguishing them based on their type of customer, rather than their quantity of traffic. Other CDNs may tend to exclusively pursue much larger customers like big banks, governments, etc., while Cloudflare from my understanding is quite happy to serve the smaller market segment.
  - tyingq 8y ago
    Ahh, yes, I read it as "small, business-focused CDN" though there's no comma there. You're right..they meant focused on "small business." I suppose the dash threw me off.
    - boulos 8y ago
      Fascinating, that’s because they did the dash wrong for the compound adjective. It should have been the ugly but correct “small-business-focused CDN”. If they didn’t want to double hyphenate then “small-business focused” would have been read properly by everyone. But you definitely parsed their “small[,] business-focused” correctly :).
      - tyingq 8y ago
        Makes me appreciate the importance of grammar a bit more. I assumed I was reading it wrong. Thanks for sharing the detail.