VBrick snags $10.4 for streaming video

Vbrick Systems is a relatively old member of the online video scene. For a decade it’s provided technology to websites for video hosting. As the field has evolved, so has the company, which just raised $10.4 million and plans to launch new hardware and software… Continue Reading

Amazon barges into the content delivery network business

Amazon barges into the content delivery network business

When you’ve got computing infrastructure like Amazon does, it’s a competitive weapon. Amazon is proving that today by using its infrastructure to launch a new business in content delivery. In doing so, it is aiming squarely at rivals such as Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks.

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DaCast offers peer-to-peer video streaming broadcasts

DaCast offers peer-to-peer video streaming broadcasts

We can all watch live video broadcasts on the internet thanks to content delivery networks (CDNs), which set up strategic points online where they can send streams of videos to internet users as efficiently as possible without clogging up the entire web.

But Andolis, a San… Continue Reading