Services
Speedera’s services included a comprehensive set of next generation streaming, content delivery, failover, global load balancing, security, visibility and management services, all based on its Global Traffic Management (GTM) platform and patented technology. The company’s engineering team also created FlexComputing, the first service in the CDN industry able to run popular applications and multiple OS deployments, one of the first cloud computing services to be launched, combining virtualization and data center automation.
In 2005, Speedera launched FlexComputing. FlexComputing enabled enterprises to rapidly deploy and update applications as needed in multiple hosting locations. FlexComputing represented the third stage of utility computing, a field in which Speedera had been a pioneer since its founding in 1999. The first stage entailed distributed caching of Web site content, particularly graphical objects. The next stage extended this model to downloadable media, video streaming files and whole site delivery. FlexComputing tooks the model one step further, to the third stage, by deploying customers` own applications on Speedera's global network and providing additional hosting capacity on demand for any distributed application running on an Intel platform. This distributed hosting solution enabled customer applications to be higher performing, more scalable, more reliable and more resistant to security attacks, while eliminating the need for customers to invest in added server and network infrastructure.
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