20 results
- 2 Dec 2013
Akamai to Acquire Prolexic
Akamai Technologies, Inc. and Prolexic Technologies, Inc. announced yesterday that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Prolexic, a provider of cloud-based…
- 12 Jan 2015
Global Broadband Adoption Rate Hits 60%, More Reports- Akamai
Akamai Technologies Third Quarter, 2014 ‘State of the Internet’ Report shows that global broadband adoption rate has reached 60 per cent. The report also indicated that global average and average…
- 22 Jul 2021
Internet Outages Reported as Akamai Probes Problem
Websites were knocked offline Thursday as network specialty firm Akamai said it is investigating an issue with its service. The scope and cause of the trouble was not disclosed, but reports of…
- 13 Mar 2014
Prolexic Issues High Alert DDoS Attack Threat Advisory
Prolexic Technologies the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, now part of Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), has issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification…
- 29 Jul 2015
See 10 Countries with World’s Fastest Internet Speeds
Akamai Technologies, a cloud services provider, made a list of the fastest internet connection speeds in the world that shows where the luckiest netizens reside. With a few clicks on a keyboard and a…
- 21 May 2018
Nigeria Set to Keep 30% of Internet Traffic Local
Nigeria has made giant stride in its quest to make local internet traffic local by achieving 30 percent of domestication of local internet traffic, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek has learnt. …
- 7 Aug 2019
Cyber Thieves Target Banks, Use Log-In Data to Crack Open Accounts
The financial services sector suffered 3.5 billion credential stuffing attacks over the past 18 months, as cybercrooks used previously breached log-in data to crack open user accounts. The…
- 22 Dec 2021
Hackers Hit Businesses over 700m Times in Last 30 Days Globally- Report
According to data compiled and analyzed by Atlas VPN, threat actors attacked businesses more than 722 million times during the last 30 days worldwide. Over 73 per cent of these hacking attempts were…
- 13 Oct 2018
Nigeria Exchanges 110 Gigabyte Per Second of Traffic Locally
Nigeria internet ecosystem has achieved a significant milestone with the exchange of 110 gigabtye per second bandwidth of traffic locally, Nigeria CommunicationsWeek has learnt. This feat…
- 20 Apr 2020
Hackers Attacked Businesses 22m Times In Last 7 Days Globally
According to data compiled and analyzed by Atlas VPN, hackers attacked businesses more than 22 million times during the last week worldwide. Over 63% of these hacking attempts were malware attacks.…
- 1 Nov 2016
340 Trillion Addresses Open On IPv6, 4.3Bn on IPv4 Almost Adopted
Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has continued advocacy for organizations and individuals in the internet community, especially in Nigeria, to migrate to version six protocol (IPv6),…
- 16 Jan 2015
IDC Reveals IaaS Vendor Market Leaders, Contenders in EMEA
A new IDC MarketScape report from IDC Government Insights shows that the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market is growing rapidly in the EMEA government sector, with both global and…
- 14 Jan 2015
Local Internet Hosting Key to Furthering Africa Internet Development- Report
Local Internet hosting has been identified as essential in the development of the Internet ecosystem in emerging countries, according to a report on Tuesday by the Internet Society. The report by…
- 19 Sept 2016
Teraco invests in new Technology to Support Africa’s Internet Growth
Teraco has made a significant investment in a new, programmable switching platform, from Arista Networks, an industry leader in software driven cloud networking, increasing the speeds and capacity of…
- 11 Dec 2018
MainOne CEO Emerges Data Centre Dynamics “Business Leader of the Year”
The Data Centre Dynamics (DCD) Awards has announced MainOne CEO, Funke Opeke, the 2018 Data Centre Dynamics Business Leader of the Year during the 2018 edition at the Royal Lancaster, London on…
- 22 Dec 2016
Content Delivery Network Edges to $23.22Bn
Latest report published by MarketsandMarkets shows the global Content Delivery Network (CDN) market will grow from USD 6.05 Billion in 2016 to USD 23.22 Billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth…
- 3 Oct 2019
Moving Nigeria Out of Net “Importer” of Bandwidth Status
Nigeria has achieved a great deal in availability of bandwidth to enhance access to the internet through the landing of not less than five undersea cable infrastructure at her shores, more so,…
- 9 Jul 2014
World Cup Breaks Online Streaming Record
The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil has set new records for streaming data traffic around the world, as football fans watch matches online in greater numbers than ever before. A report from the FIFA…
- 12 May 2016
Layer3, Arbor Networks Partners to Curb DDoS Attacks
Layer3, a leading network and security solutions provider, has been appointed by Arbor Networks as its Channel partner in West Africa. Arbor Networks is a leading provider of network security…
- 30 Jul 2018
Nigeria’s Top Level Domain Makes Lazy Progress
.ng, Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain Name, ccTLD, which is the country’s identity on the super-high is making little progress, 13 years after Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA)…