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Under the "Risks" section they specifically mention their competitors: The market for cloud computing platforms, particularly enterprise grade products, is hig
by firebird84 7y 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 7y 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 7y agoThey 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 7y agoAhh, 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 7y agoFascinating, 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 7y agoMakes me appreciate the importance of grammar a bit more. I assumed I was reading it wrong. Thanks for sharing the detail.