Author Archive for Jeff Kim
I am the COO US/EMEA at CDNetworks and I am the champion for the end-to-end customer experience. I love partnering and innovating with our global customers and seeing the amazing things that they are doing over the Internet. I have the privilege of working and learning from a global mixing bowl of employees, partners and customers every day.
DDoS Facts and Recommendations According to Forrester
In our webcast with Forrester yesterday, analyst Andras Cser outlined some facts and good advice when it comes to DDoS attacks. Forrester DDoS Facts: eCommerce vendors loose between $200k-$500k/downtime hour Typical length of a DDoS attack is 2-6 hours Bandwidth overprovisioning is not the answer (costs too high) Total DDoS mitigation cost = firewall/IDS operational [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
CDNetworks Expands Coverage Across the Globe
CDNetworks has extended its global reach with expanded coverage in Canada, Brazil, Australia, France, The Netherlands, Singapore, Italy, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan. I’m also happy to announce a new Point of Presence in Toronto, Canada. This PoP will help our customers reach the multitude of businesses and consumers in the most populous regions of [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
Why Application Performance Is Vital to Your Business’s Bottom Line
As online applications are more frequently used by businesses and consumers alike, the need for a fast and efficient user-experience is becoming a vital aspect of overall business success. High application performance will ensure satisfied end users, which increases website visits and reduces abandon rates, resulting in increased conversion and sales. If your site is [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
Accelerating a Global Web End User Experience
Accelerating content delivery and ensuring optimal performance of a single website across multiple countries is a major challenge for most multi-national companies. Now imagine accelerating thousands of websites, each written in a different language and code, reaching over millions of customers in over 150 countries. A major global consumer packaged goods (CPG) company was recently [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
Shopify Accelerates its Global Presence with a CDN
It is no argument that a poor end user experience will always be the ‘Achilles heel’ to the success of any ecommerce platform. In a recent client case study, we discuss how one of the fastest growing ecommerce platforms, Shopify, boosts its web performance with a content delivery network (CDN) to provide an optimal end [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
5 Benefits of a CDN
With over 2.4 billion worldwide Internet users, businesses have an opportunity to reach millions of consumers around the globe. The challenge that exists, however, is finding a way to provide speedy Internet connectivity over a vast distance to ensure customers are experiencing optimal web performance. This is where a content delivery network (CDN) could become [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
Key points in Jerry Miller’s webcast: Reaching China with Your Website & Cloud Applications | The Hard Truth
Jerry isn’t kidding when he says “The Hard Truth.” Reaching China is tough even with a partner, but totally worth it. According to Resonance China, China is adding 100 million internet users a year. Asia, and China in particular, has the largest amount of internet users by region and the second to last internet penetration [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
Conversations at Velocity London
I just got back from Velocity London and I am really glad we were there. We had great conversations with IT professionals, engineers, analysts, and architects from medium to massive companies in telco, high tech, travel, retail, and government. One theme was ever-present in our conversations. We heard over and over that “my company’s website [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
No need to regulate the global internet. The free markets are working.
I wanted to comment on a very interesting report that was just published by Analysys Mason. You can get a copy of the report here: http://www.analysysmason.com/Research/Content/Reports/Internet-global-growth-lessons-for-the-future/Internet-global-growth-lessons-for-the-future/ The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is holding its World Treaty conference this December 2012, and one of the topics for discussion is the implication of applying the telecommunication billing [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
Managed CDN Services vs. CDN Federations
About a year ago, I blogged about Telco CDNs and CDN Federations. You can find that blog here. At that time, there was a lot of buzz and a surge of energy around CDN federations and operators coming together to form CDN exchanges. While these ideas are interesting in theory and concept, the practical applications [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
