Akamai Prolexic and Equinix Cloud Exchange Unite, Bringing DDoS Defense Closer to the Customer Origin

In terms of cyberthreats and digital risk, 2020 has been all about DDoS attacks. We've seen threat actors launch record breaking 1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps attacks, cybercriminals conduct the largest global DDoS extortion campaign, and a significant uptick in cyberweek DDoS attacker activity aimed at...

Akamai Prolexic and Equinix Cloud Exchange Bring DDoS Defense Closer to the Origin

In terms of cyberthreats and digital risk, 2020 has been all about distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks...

A Brief History of the Internet in Northern Virginia

Earlier today I happened to see a short piece from the Bloomberg Businessweek "The Year Ahead: 2016" issue, titled The Best Places to Build Data Centers. The text said the following: Cloud leaders including Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and upstart DigitalOcean are spending tens of billions...