New findings: Retail sites that use a CDN are slower than sites that do not* *NB: Don't panic. Correlation does not equal causation. More on that later in this post. This week at Radware, we've… Tammy Everts | April 22, 2014
I Already Use a CDN. Why Do I Need Front-End Performance Optimization? This is one of the most frequently asked questions I encounter. To understand how a front-end web performance optimization (WPO)… Tammy Everts | August 6, 2013
Latency: 4 Ways You Can Fight Back and Accelerate Your Applications Many people have a rough idea that latency has something to do with the delay in moving content from the… Joshua Bixby | April 17, 2013
SDN Focus Shifts to Network Services Brad Casemore is Research Director for IDC’s Datacenter Networks practice and is a featured guest blogger. Cloud computing requires a… Brad Casemore | March 4, 2013
OpenFlow and SDN in 2012 – A Look Back Before starting to discuss where 2013 will take us with SDN, I’d like to recap some of the significant SDN… Lior Cohen | February 27, 2013
The Three Myths of the Availability Threat Availability – aka the big “A” – is often the overlooked leg of the CIA triad (the others being Confidentiality… Dennis Usle | June 13, 2012
Using Spreadsheets as a DDoS weapon I saw an article the other day where somebody had used Google Docs incorrectly and he’d racked up a tremendous… David Hobbs | May 10, 2012
You can’t hide behind the Clouds We’re beginning to hear more about content distribution network (CDN) providers burnishing their offerings with WAF-like capabilities. While it appears… David Hobbs | February 22, 2012
Israeli Website Hit with Country’s Largest Volumetric DDoS Attack on Record: What this Says About Cleaning the ISP Pipe Today, we experienced the highest ever volumetric DDoS attack on an Israeli website. One of the leading news sites in… Ronen Kenig | February 7, 2012
CDN Networks as a Weapon for DDoS Early in my career, I worked for CacheFlow (now BlueCoat). I spent a fair amount of time exploring proxy systems… David Hobbs | January 27, 2012
Lesson Learned: ISPs & CDNs aren’t enough for Anti-DDoS Well, I suppose that many in the Hacktivist world have resolved that 2012 would be a ‘breakout’ year for them… Carl Herberger | January 18, 2012
Mobile Data Advancements & Cloud Transformation Everyone knows that both the bandwidth and scope of mobile applications continue to grow and evolve. It’s all around. Just… Nir Ilani | August 4, 2011