Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) serve as the Internet's pipelines. They are reshaping how information is consumed online behind the scenes, accelerating web traffic, enhancing user experience, and enabling every website to truly go global.

As you might imagine, any technology capable of causing such seismic shifts in the way people conduct business is bound to encounter obstacles. Many industries are currently engaged in an internal debate about future strategic CDN requirements and how to achieve them. Internal development and engineering teams are on one side. These groups are culturally predisposed – if not insanely so – to believe that their incumbent CDN possesses the flexibility and scalability necessary to meet growing demands. On the other hand, security teams are arguing that the key to future CDN success is the adoption of a Single Stack platform that optimizes application performance through the delivery of content in a single secure workstream – an option that would undoubtedly disrupt the culture by simplifying content delivery and security, but also makes business sense.

The security teams' arguments in this debate are compelling many large organizations to rethink their future CDN technology requirements and to conduct a thorough analysis of the bottom-line benefits of CDN replacement. Rather than cultural dispositions, these organizations must consider the desired outcomes. Rather than comparing fluffy "microfeatures" between CDN options, they should be entirely focused on ensuring that application performance is never compromised in application development environments. Your CDN technology must result in a net-positive outcome for all enterprise stakeholders – security, developers, and operations.

Primary benefits that the CDN provides your organization

• Platform built around APIs. Numerous organizations incorporate security/content delivery network (CDN) into their automated application delivery cycles by directly consuming our API via tools such as 'Terraforms Provider' or by instrumenting the Imperva Cloud API directly.
• Fast Purge/Fast Configuration Propagation.CDN propagation is near-real-time (seconds) by default, whether you're creating new policies or purging cached content. The Imperva platform will simplify your change management process and accelerate time-to-value for development and security teams.
• Affordability in terms of total cost of ownership. CDN enables you to avoid the exorbitant operational costs associated with managing other CDN vendors who add hundreds of security rules reactively, or with paying way too much for incumbent managed services to add them.