Podcasts about Limelight Networks

This week, we discuss all the latest NFL streaming news, including Amazon's exclusive NFL Wild Card playoff game, which reached an all-time high of 24.6M viewers, details from FOX on their 1080p upscaled 4k HDR stream and their plans to make the stream available on Tubi. We also detail the network shutdown of Limelight Networks as part of Edgio's bankruptcy, what it means for the CDN industry, and the thousands of employees who have worked at the company over the past 23 years. Finally, we cover some news about Apple TV+, Altice, and the launch of a new video distribution patent pool by Access Advance.Podcast produced by Security Halt Media

With more streaming services adding AVOD plans, this week we breakdown ARPU amongst streaming services, which now have to be properly compared between SVOD, AVOD and a combo of the two. We also highlight new information given out by Disney and Netflix around their ad-supported plans, Telestream's acquisition of Encoding.com, the new NFL+ service and Paramount's thoughts on the windowing of movies. We also detail some of the problems companies are facing, across all sectors, when it comes to setting proper growth expectations on Wall Street and why some companies are being forced to cut costs and lay people off, or slow hiring. Companies, and services mentioned: Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, NFL+, Netflix, Roku, HBO Max, Vizio, Paramount, Peacock TV, fuboTV, Spotify, Pluto TV, Telestream, Akamai, Encoding.com, FIFA, Snap, Edgecast, Limelight Networks, Melvin Capital. Questions or feedback? Contact: dan@danrayburn.com

Investors of Limelight Networks ( LLNW 13.56% ), a content delivery services company, pushed its share price up 13% today after Limelight said that it . Investors of Limelight Networks ( LLNW 13.56% ), a content delivery services company, pushed its share price up 13% today after Limelight said that it was buying an edge computing company from Yahoo! and that it would rebrand its name to Edgio. Making acquisitions is an ordinary move for many publicly traded companies, but investors should know that Limelight's purchase is a pretty significant one for the edge computing company in terms of its size, opportunity, and future. And that's why investors' optimism today appears to be on point. Let's take a quick look as to why. Limelight is purchasing Yahoo!'s Edgecast company for 72.2 million shares of common stock. Those shares will give Yahoo! nearly 32% ownership of the new combined company, which will be called Edgio. That's a significant deal, but what does Limelight get out of it? Here are a few of the highlights: The purchase will expand Limelight's total addressable market from $12 billion to $40 billion, the company says. The combination of the two companies is expected to "more than double" Limelight's current annual revenue, expand its gross margins, and increase recurring revenue growth, according to a press release. Limelight says that Edgecast's cloud security services will give the company projected revenue of more than $100 million in the security segment. Limelight Networks said that the acquisition will also expand its customer base, diversify its revenue, and create annual run-rate cost synergies of $50 million. When you combine all of these things together -- particularly the doubling of the company's revenue and its expanded total addressable market -- it becomes pretty clear why investors were right to be so optimistic about today's acquisition. One thing investors should look for in the coming quarters is whether or not some of management's estimates actually pan out. Companies can sometimes be too optimistic about the benefits of an acquisition, but in this case, it appears that Limelight investors could have much more to look forward to with this purchase.

This week we breakdown the 70,000 subscriber losses from Sling TV in Q4, the injection of $4.3B into DAZN and the upcoming soft launch of Bally Sports RSN streaming service. We also cover the key numbers you need to know from FuboTV, who ended 2021 with 1.13M subs and Discovery, who wrapped up 2021 with 22M D2C subs. We also discuss what's behind so many streaming vendors slashing revenue growth projections for this year when compared to 2021.Companies, and services mentioned: DAZN, FuboTV, Sinclair, Bally Sports, BT Sports, DISH, Sling TV, Discovery, HBO Max, Sabio, Vidillion, Haivision, AVIWEST, Kaltura, Brightcove, Fastly, Vimeo, Agora, Limelight Networks, Akamai, Qumu, Hopin.Articles Mentioned- Discovery Q4 2021 Earnings: Gained 2M paying D2C subs, ended 2021 with 22M; Expects merger with Warner Bros. to close in Q2- DISH Q4 2021 Earnings: Lost 70,000 Sling TV subscribers in Q4 to end 2021 with 2.49M Sling TV subscribers; Total revenue in Q4 of $4.45B, flat y/o/y- FuboTV Full Year 2021 Earnings: Ended 2021 with 1.13M subs; Projects to end 2022 with 1.74M total subs; Total 2021 revenue of $637M, up 144% y/o/y; Net loss of $383M for the year- Sinclair says the DTC “soft launch" of 5 Bally Sports RSNs with MLB teams is expected in Q2 of this year, with full launch and the addition of NBA and NHL teams to take place in Q3 of this yearQuestions or feedback? Contact us at dan@danrayburn.com

This week we breakdown Netflix's Q4 earnings after watching the stock drop over $100 the next day, also causing new 52-week lows for stocks from Disney, Roku and fuboTV. We also discuss the proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, announced on the same day that the DOJ and FTC discussed plans to update and modernize merger enforcement guidelines, something that could mean more rigorous scrutiny of major tech and media transactions. Other news highlighted includes Limelight Networks earnings, the rumor of DAZN in talks to acquire British channel producer BT Sports for $800 million and fuboTV raising their RSN Fee in New England.Companies and services mentioned: Netflix, Disney, Roku, fuboTV, Limelight Networks, DAZN, Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, Discovery, WarnerMedia, Amazon, MGM, Vimeo, Peacock TV, Apple, Amazon, NHL.Executives mentioned: Bryan Walls, Eric Iverson, Eric Black, Lexie Knauer, Lisa Bennett.Links to articles mentioned:Netflix Q4 2021 Earnings: Added 8.3M subs; has 222M total subs. Forecasts Q1 2022 paid net adds of 2.5M. Full year revenue of $30Bhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/danrayburn_netflix-streamingmedia-activity-6890038907413876737-pHIpLimelight Q4 2021 Earnings: Revenue of $62.9M, up 14% y/o/y, GAAP net loss of $7.7M; Total 2021 revenue of $217.6Mhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/danrayburn_limelight-networks-reports-record-fourth-activity-6890320324928634881-i2b-Questions or feedback? Contact us at dan@danrayburn.com

This week we breakdown the latest HBO Max/HB0 subscribers numbers just released by AT&T and question how the industry should define sub growth. While 73.8M sounds like a big number, the service had 61M at the end of 2020 and won't have day-in-date releases this year. We also debate some of the latest “estimates” released on vMVPD subscriber growth and highlight the challenges faced with vMVPD packages now averaging $65 a month. We also touch on some of the latest numbers given out at the CES show around Five TV device sales and Google TV adoption.Companies and services mentioned: HBO Max, Fire TV, Peacock TV, Sling TV, Hulu, Disney, Netflix, Discovery, WarnerMedia, Apple, Roku, Samsung, TCL, Google TV, YouTube TV, fuobTV, Philo, DIRECTV STREAM, PlayStation Vue, ESPN+, Comcast, AT&T, Fastly, Cloudflare, Brightcove, Limelight Networks, Haivision, Kaltura, Qumu, Vimeo, Twitter, Akamai.Executives mentioned: Jay Utz, Noah Levine, Robert Coon, Guy Paskar, David Belson.Links to articles mentioned:AT&T says they ended 2021 with "approximately 73.8 million total global HBO Max and HBO subscribershttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/danrayburn_hbomax-streamingmedia-activity-6884528669679747072-gVXMGrowth of vMVPD Services Stalling: Sling TV Added Only 260,000 Subs in 4 Yearshttps://www.streamingmediablog.com/2021/02/vmvpd-stalling.htmlAmazon says they have now sold over 150 million Fire TV devices globallyhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/danrayburn_fire-tv-is-on-the-move-in-2022-activity-6884522654821302272-BgbLNBCU says that Premium Peacock customers will be able to stream every minute of every live event of the 2022 Winter Olympics, "All in One Place"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danrayburn_peacocktv-nbcuniversal-nbcsports-activity-6884599211048890369-ZtmVQuestions or feedback? Contact us at dan@danrayburn.com

In episode 90 of JAMstack Radio, Brian Douglas speaks with Ishan Anand of Limelight Networks. They discuss Ishan's performance-first career journey as well as tools and tactics for optimizing build times.

In episode 90 of JAMstack Radio, Brian Douglas speaks with Ishan Anand of Limelight Networks. They discuss Ishan's performance-first career journey as well as tools and tactics for optimizing build times.

Limelight Networks Inc., a provider of content delivery services, has completed its acquisition of Layer0. The acquisition will help clients use the edge platform to sample content and install apps without compromising security.Data Center Inc. (DCI), a developer of core bank processing software, has announced a partnership with DataVisor, an AI-powered fraud detection startup. Because of the partnership, DCI's customer community banks will benefit from real-time fraud detection and prevention capabilities.FMG Suite, a marketing and advertising SaaS provider, has announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with LPL Financial. LPL financial advisers may now submit email, social media, and website campaigns using FMG Suite's all-in-one marketing platform.Bidgely, an energy analytics business, has received $26 million in an oversubscribed fundraising round from Moore Strategic Ventures. Bidgely will use the funds to create customized solutions to suit India's most critical utility needs.Skello a French startup, has raised $47.3 million (€40 million) in a Series B funding round from Partech. Skello is working on a SaaS platform to help organizations manage their work schedules. At every level of the scheduling process, Skello keeps track of legal responsibilities.Tyk an open-source API gateway and management platform, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round from Scottish Equity Partners. The money will be utilized to hire more people and improve and expand the tools available to users.

Algolia attains the unicorn tag, raising $150M in Series D from Lone Pine Capital. The round quadrupled its valuation achieved during its Series C in 2019, taking it to $2.25B. The company plans to address the increased demand for its search and recommendation products, continue its product expansion using the fund.Limelight Networks has announced its definitive acquisition agreement with Layer0, to purchase the latter in a cash and stock deal. The acquisition is aimed at making Limelight meaningfully transform into an edge SaaS provider and also driving its revenue, margins and EBITDA.Dixa has raised $105M in Series C funding from General Atlantic and aspires to inject funds into product development, potential acquisitions in the future, hiring for engineering teams and scaling its global presence. The company's total funding raised to date crossed $157M with this round of funding.LogicGate has raised $113M in a Series C funding round and aims to use the proceeds to fuel all elements of its business, including product development, notably targeted at its risk quantification solution that is likely to be released later this year. The company's total funding raised to date touched $156M.A group of SaaS pioneers in India has announced the forming of the Together Fund. With an initial capital of $85 million, the fund would support young Indian software-as-a-service startups. The group consists of Girish Mathrubootham of Freshworks; Shubham Gupta, formerly with investment firm Matrix; Avinash Raghava, formerly with Nasscom, iSPIRT, and SaaS BOOMi; and Manav Garg of Eka Corporation. Together Fund aims to invest in 20 to 25 businesses at various stages from pre-seed to Series B. In an interview with TechCrunch, Mr. Garg stated that the firm's check size would vary from $250,000 to $3 million.QuotaPath, a commission-tracking solution for sales and revenue teams, raised $21.3M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners. QuotaPath intends to grow its staff by the end of the year with the new fund. The company has raised a total of $26.3M since its inception, including this round.Contentful, a content platform, raised $175M in a Series F round, valuing the company at over $3B, making it a unicorn. The funds will be used to extend Contentful's global marketing and sales reach and to continue investing in its growth.Airwallex, a major worldwide payments network, has launched Capital 49, a new venture capital fund run by the company's founders. The new fund is anticipated to receive $200M from Airwallex's founders and other investors. So far, Capital 49 has invested in two fintech firms.

Ahead of a busy summer of sport, SportsPro editor at large Eoin Connolly and editorial director Michael Long reflect on some recent stories that draw together some key industry themes.  First, they discuss the withdrawal of tennis star Naomi Osaka from the French Open – where the world number two had wanted to avoid mandatory press conferences to protect her mental health – and consider what it says about the need to modernise communications between athletes and the media.  They also look back on the Uefa Champions League final in Porto, picking up on an intriguing New York Times report about a future ‘final four' week for European club soccer's showpiece, and comparing the ownership strategies of the Super League class with Premier League-bound Brentford. Then (39.36) to coincide with the release of the whitepaper ‘Making the Personal Possible: Powering Interactivity and New Experiences in Sports OTT', Limelight Networks' Charlie Kraus explains some of the technology that enables interactive, customisable experiences in live digital broadcasts.   Making the Personal Possible: Powering Interactivity and New Experiences in Sports OTT is a whitepaper produced by SportsPro in collaboration with Limelight Networks. Find out more and download your copy here. Music: Surf Inspector by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4447-surf-inspector License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

Steve Miller-Jones of Limelight Networks joins the podcast to talk about the future of media and video distribution. The pandemic changed our media consumption patterns, but what happens when we all start going to live events and large venues again – and is there a new media business model emerging with that change? Miller-Jones said he expects that broadcast TV, live events and linear programming will still continue, but "our expectation is going to be that we can choose how we're going to consume that." He said we'll want to see different camera angles at live events, pause and revisit media on different devices, and have more to consume that's "about" the event or the things we're doing in-person. He said that move to provide companion content to in-person experiences means "additional data, additional services, additional applications, or content that comes with what we're consuming, and there's going to be, I suspect, a whole sort of emergence of a different type of storytelling, perhaps in a different type of content management and content production."

With a strong CDN in place, Sales Ops can identify and prioritize who the valuable prospects are, and then push those leads down to Sales Reps. Aaron Lockhart, Senior Manager Sales Operations at Limelight Networks discusses how his Sales Ops team goes through that process, maximizing every lead and letting the Sales Reps do what they do best-Sell. What we talked about: Identifying your total addressable market Prioritizing your outreach Shoring up your sales cycle to assure an above bar customer experience For more engaging sales conversations, subscribe to The Sales Engagement Podcast on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, or on our website.

Jill Rouleau is a senior software engineer at Red Hat Ansible who maintains AWS and other cloud modules. Prior to working on Ansible, they worked as an OpenStack engineer on TripleO, an OpenStack deployment project. Over the years, Jill also worked as a cloud reliability engineer at Canonical Ltd.; was the owner of Bespoke Software Solutions, a consultancy specializing in open source, cloud, and emerging technologies; and served as an operations engineer for Limelight Networks. Join Corey and Jill as they discuss what it’s like to be on the Ansible engineering team, what Jill thinks about various programming languages, including Python, YAML, and XML, how familiarity with languages can help accelerate open source adoption and contributions, what Jill does to encourage first-time open source contributors to stick around, how answering the what can I do to help? question can be tricky, what Ansible is doing to increase contributions in the future, Jill’s advice on what you can do to start a career in tech, why diversity in experience and backgrounds is critical for tech companies, and more.

Alphabet breaks out its YouTube revenue for the first time. Activision Blizzard scores with “Call of Duty: Mobile”. Casper’s IPO turns into a snoozefest. Pinterest pops. And Chipotle serves up strong growth. Analysts Andy Cross, Ron Gross, and Jason Moser discuss those stories and weigh in on the latest from Disney, Take-Two Interactive, Twitter, and Yum! Brands. And we share three stocks on our radar: Empire State Realty Trust, Limelight Networks, and Moody’s. Plus, corporate governance expert and film critic Nell Minow talks diversity in the boardroom and makes predictions for this year’s Academy Awards. (To get 50% off our Stock Advisor service, go to http://RadarStocks.fool.com.)

Supreme Court of the United StatesDocket Number:12-786Limelight Networks v. Akamai TechnologiesIssue: Did the Federal Circuit court err in holding that a defendant may be liable for inducing patent infringement under § 271(b) even if no party committed direct infringement under §271(a)?Disclaimer: PatentCases is a non-for-profit podcast channel that republishes freely available recordings related to U.S. patent cases. PatentCases does not have any right in the audio files being re-shared.

The way people shopped have changed dramatically in the past decade, there is an obvious shift in the number of people turning to online shopping from the ‘traditional’ retail shopping. But how can you create an identity in this market that would satisfy your consumers, leaving them coming back for more? Edwin Koh, Director for Southeast Asia, Limelight Networks common issues e-commerce merchants face when a world wide sale event happens for a day and the future of e-commerce. 

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This is part 1 of the audio version of a webinar featuring Limelight Network’s journey of digital transformation and use of effective managed services, all at the cost of less than one new headcount. Hosted by Amy Cook, CMO at Simplus, she is joined by Nelson Sperling, senior CRM administrator at Limelight Networks, and Tara Heavner, service delivery manager at Simplus. 

This is part 2 of the audio version of a webinar featuring Limelight Network’s journey of digital transformation and use of effective managed services, all at the cost of less than one new headcount. Hosted by Amy Cook, CMO at Simplus, she is joined by Nelson Sperling, senior CRM administrator at Limelight Networks, and Tara Heavner, service delivery manager at Simplus.

It seems we use Content Delivery Networks - or CDNs - every day, whether live streaming the big game, playing games on a smartphone or making an online purchase. CDN ensures ‘content’ reaches viewers anytime, anywhere without disruption. But what are the implications on businesses and content distributors as consumers are increasingly expecting secure, high-quality digital experiences on all of their internet-connected devices? We’re joined by Jaheer Abbas, Senior Director for SE Asia and India at Limelight Networks.

Sam Seddon joins Bram to talk about how IBM continues to modernize the content experience for tennis fans around the globe while at the same time protecting the traditions of the most famous tennis tournament in the world, Wimbledon. Fritz Seifts, Principal Architect at Limelight Networks discusses the state of streaming and when disruptions will become a thing of the past.

Trading Block: Canadian revenge tariff are on the docket today. VIX cash sits above 17. OCC Cleared Contract Volume up 6% in June - the highest June for total options volume on record. It's SPX's 35-year anniversary. Odd Block: July 4 calls in Limelight Networks, Inc. (LLNW), Funky multi-leg in BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT), Rolling puts in (FLO). Strategy Block: Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses trading short put spreads Mail Block: Options question of the week Traders generally fade volatility going into holidays (today notwithstanding). What's your favorite vehicle when you want to wager on the dark side of volatility? Short-term or Long-term - that's up to you. Short VIX Futures Long $VIX Puts/Spread Long $VXX Puts/Spread Short $VIX Calls/Spreads Around the Block: 'Murica. Mired in tariff talk. Negotiating trade deals is tough!

Trading Block: Canadian revenge tariff are on the docket today. VIX cash sits above 17. OCC Cleared Contract Volume up 6% in June - the highest June for total options volume on record. It's SPX's 35-year anniversary. Odd Block: July 4 calls in Limelight Networks, Inc. (LLNW), Funky multi-leg in BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (BPT), Rolling puts in (FLO). Strategy Block: Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses trading short put spreads Mail Block: Options question of the week Traders generally fade volatility going into holidays (today notwithstanding). What's your favorite vehicle when you want to wager on the dark side of volatility? Short-term or Long-term - that's up to you. Short VIX Futures Long $VIX Puts/Spread Long $VXX Puts/Spread Short $VIX Calls/Spreads Around the Block: 'Murica. Mired in tariff talk. Negotiating trade deals is tough!

Leonard Rose, Principal Security Architect at Limelight Networks, joins Paul and the crew this week for an interview! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/Episode558 Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/securityweekly Visit our website: http://securityweekly.com Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.comsecurityweekly

Leonard Rose, Principal Security Architect at Limelight Networks, joins Paul and the crew this week for an interview! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/Episode558 Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/securityweekly Visit our website: http://securityweekly.com Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.comsecurityweekly

This week, we interview Leonard Rose, Principal Security Archtiect of Limelight Networks! In the news, we have updates from Cisco, Drupalgeddon, Facebook, Twitter, and more on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/Episode558 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! →Visit https://www.activecountermeasures/psw to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter!!

This week, we interview Leonard Rose, Principal Security Archtiect of Limelight Networks! In the news, we have updates from Cisco, Drupalgeddon, Facebook, Twitter, and more on this episode of Paul's Security Weekly! Full Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/Episode558 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://www.activecountermeasures/psw to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter!!

Second round of ZFS improvements in FreeBSD, Postgres finds that non-FreeBSD/non-Illumos systems are corrupting data, interview with Kevin Bowling, BSDCan list of talks, and cryptographic right answers. Headlines [Other big ZFS improvements you might have missed] 9075 Improve ZFS pool import/load process and corrupted pool recovery One of the first tasks during the pool load process is to parse a config provided from userland that describes what devices the pool is composed of. A vdev tree is generated from that config, and then all the vdevs are opened. The Meta Object Set (MOS) of the pool is accessed, and several metadata objects that are necessary to load the pool are read. The exact configuration of the pool is also stored inside the MOS. Since the configuration provided from userland is external and might not accurately describe the vdev tree of the pool at the txg that is being loaded, it cannot be relied upon to safely operate the pool. For that reason, the configuration in the MOS is read early on. In the past, the two configurations were compared together and if there was a mismatch then the load process was aborted and an error was returned. The latter was a good way to ensure a pool does not get corrupted, however it made the pool load process needlessly fragile in cases where the vdev configuration changed or the userland configuration was outdated. Since the MOS is stored in 3 copies, the configuration provided by userland doesn't have to be perfect in order to read its contents. Hence, a new approach has been adopted: The pool is first opened with the untrusted userland configuration just so that the real configuration can be read from the MOS. The trusted MOS configuration is then used to generate a new vdev tree and the pool is re-opened. When the pool is opened with an untrusted configuration, writes are disabled to avoid accidentally damaging it. During reads, some sanity checks are performed on block pointers to see if each DVA points to a known vdev; when the configuration is untrusted, instead of panicking the system if those checks fail we simply avoid issuing reads to the invalid DVAs. This new two-step pool load process now allows rewinding pools across vdev tree changes such as device replacement, addition, etc. Loading a pool from an external config file in a clustering environment also becomes much safer now since the pool will import even if the config is outdated and didn't, for instance, register a recent device addition. With this code in place, it became relatively easy to implement a long-sought-after feature: the ability to import a pool with missing top level (i.e. non-redundant) devices. Note that since this almost guarantees some loss Of data, this feature is for now restricted to a read-only import. 7614 zfs device evacuation/removal This project allows top-level vdevs to be removed from the storage pool with “zpool remove”, reducing the total amount of storage in the pool. This operation copies all allocated regions of the device to be removed onto other devices, recording the mapping from old to new location. After the removal is complete, read and free operations to the removed (now “indirect”) vdev must be remapped and performed at the new location on disk. The indirect mapping table is kept in memory whenever the pool is loaded, so there is minimal performance overhead when doing operations on the indirect vdev. The size of the in-memory mapping table will be reduced when its entries become “obsolete” because they are no longer used by any block pointers in the pool. An entry becomes obsolete when all the blocks that use it are freed. An entry can also become obsolete when all the snapshots that reference it are deleted, and the block pointers that reference it have been “remapped” in all filesystems/zvols (and clones). Whenever an indirect block is written, all the block pointers in it will be “remapped” to their new (concrete) locations if possible. This process can be accelerated by using the “zfs remap” command to proactively rewrite all indirect blocks that reference indirect (removed) vdevs. Note that when a device is removed, we do not verify the checksum of the data that is copied. This makes the process much faster, but if it were used on redundant vdevs (i.e. mirror or raidz vdevs), it would be possible to copy the wrong data, when we have the correct data on e.g. the other side of the mirror. Therefore, mirror and raidz devices can not be removed. You can use ‘zpool detach’ to downgrade a mirror to a single top-level device, so that you can then remove it 7446 zpool create should support efi system partition This one was not actually merged into FreeBSD, as it doesn’t apply currently, but I would like to switch the way FreeBSD deals with full disks to be closer to IllumOS to make automatic spare replacement a hands-off operation. Since we support whole-disk configuration for boot pool, we also will need whole disk support with UEFI boot and for this, zpool create should create efi-system partition. I have borrowed the idea from oracle solaris, and introducing zpool create -B switch to provide an way to specify that boot partition should be created. However, there is still an question, how big should the system partition be. For time being, I have set default size 256MB (thats minimum size for FAT32 with 4k blocks). To support custom size, the set on creation "bootsize" property is created and so the custom size can be set as: zpool create -B -o bootsize=34MB rpool c0t0d0. After the pool is created, the "bootsize" property is read only. When -B switch is not used, the bootsize defaults to 0 and is shown in zpool get output with no value. Older zfs/zpool implementations can ignore this property. **Digital Ocean** PostgreSQL developers find that every operating system other than FreeBSD and IllumOS might corrupt your data Some time ago I ran into an issue where a user encountered data corruption after a storage error. PostgreSQL played a part in that corruption by allowing checkpoint what should've been a fatal error. TL;DR: Pg should PANIC on fsync() EIO return. Retrying fsync() is not OK at least on Linux. When fsync() returns success it means "all writes since the last fsync have hit disk" but we assume it means "all writes since the last SUCCESSFUL fsync have hit disk". Pg wrote some blocks, which went to OS dirty buffers for writeback. Writeback failed due to an underlying storage error. The block I/O layer and XFS marked the writeback page as failed (ASEIO), but had no way to tell the app about the failure. When Pg called fsync() on the FD during the next checkpoint, fsync() returned EIO because of the flagged page, to tell Pg that a previous async write failed. Pg treated the checkpoint as failed and didn't advance the redo start position in the control file. + All good so far. But then we retried the checkpoint, which retried the fsync(). The retry succeeded, because the prior fsync() *cleared the ASEIO bad page flag*. The write never made it to disk, but we completed the checkpoint, and merrily carried on our way. Whoops, data loss. The clear-error-and-continue behaviour of fsync is not documented as far as I can tell. Nor is fsync() returning EIO unless you have a very new linux man-pages with the patch I wrote to add it. But from what I can see in the POSIX standard we are not given any guarantees about what happens on fsync() failure at all, so we're probably wrong to assume that retrying fsync() is safe. We already PANIC on fsync() failure for WAL segments. We just need to do the same for data forks at least for EIO. This isn't as bad as it seems because AFAICS fsync only returns EIO in cases where we should be stopping the world anyway, and many FSes will do that for us. + Upon further looking, it turns out it is not just Linux brain damage: Apparently I was too optimistic. I had looked only at FreeBSD, which keeps the page around and dirties it so we can retry, but the other BSDs apparently don't (FreeBSD changed that in 1999). From what I can tell from the sources below, we have: Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD: retrying fsync() after EIO lies FreeBSD, Illumos: retrying fsync() after EIO tells the truth + NetBSD PR to solve the issues + I/O errors are not reported back to fsync at all. + Write errors during genfs_putpages that fail for any reason other than ENOMEM cause the data to be semi-silently discarded. + It appears that UVM pages are marked clean when they're selected to be written out, not after the write succeeds; so there are a bunch of potential races when writes fail. + It appears that write errors for buffercache buffers are semi-silently discarded as well. Interview - Kevin Bowling: Senior Manager Engineering of LimeLight Networks - kbowling@llnw.com / @kevinbowling1 BR: How did you first get introduced to UNIX and BSD? AJ: What got you started contributing to an open source project? BR: What sorts of things have you worked on it the past? AJ: Tell us a bit about LimeLight and how they use FreeBSD. BR: What are the biggest advantages of FreeBSD for LimeLight? AJ: What could FreeBSD do better that would benefit LimeLight? BR: What has LimeLight given back to FreeBSD? AJ: What have you been working on more recently? BR: What do you find to be the most valuable part of open source? AJ: Where do you think the most improvement in open source is needed? BR: Tell us a bit about your computing history collection. What are your three favourite pieces? AJ: How do you keep motivated to work on Open Source? BR: What do you do for fun? AJ: Anything else you want to mention? News Roundup BSDCan 2018 Selected Talks The schedule for BSDCan is up Lots of interesting content, we are looking forward to it We hope to see lots of you there. Make sure you come introduce yourselves to us. Don’t be shy. Remember, if this is your first BSDCan, checkout the newbie session on Thursday night. It’ll help you get to know a few people so you have someone you can ask for guidance. Also, check out the hallway track, the tables, and come to the hacker lounge. iXsystems Cryptographic Right Answers Crypto can be confusing. We all know we shouldn’t roll our own, but what should we use? Well, some developers have tried to answer that question over the years, keeping an updated list of “Right Answers” 2009: Colin Percival of FreeBSD 2015: Thomas H. Ptacek 2018: Latacora A consultancy that provides “Retained security teams for startups”, where Thomas Ptacek works. We’re less interested in empowering developers and a lot more pessimistic about the prospects of getting this stuff right. There are, in the literature and in the most sophisticated modern systems, “better” answers for many of these items. If you’re building for low-footprint embedded systems, you can use STROBE and a sound, modern, authenticated encryption stack entirely out of a single SHA-3-like sponge constructions. You can use NOISE to build a secure transport protocol with its own AKE. Speaking of AKEs, there are, like, 30 different password AKEs you could choose from. But if you’re a developer and not a cryptography engineer, you shouldn’t do any of that. You should keep things simple and conventional and easy to analyze; “boring”, as the Google TLS people would say. Cryptographic Right Answers Encrypting Data Percival, 2009: AES-CTR with HMAC. Ptacek, 2015: (1) NaCl/libsodium’s default, (2) ChaCha20-Poly1305, or (3) AES-GCM. Latacora, 2018: KMS or XSalsa20+Poly1305 Symmetric key length Percival, 2009: Use 256-bit keys. Ptacek, 2015: Use 256-bit keys. Latacora, 2018: Go ahead and use 256 bit keys. Symmetric “Signatures” Percival, 2009: Use HMAC. Ptacek, 2015: Yep, use HMAC. Latacora, 2018: Still HMAC. Hashing algorithm Percival, 2009: Use SHA256 (SHA-2). Ptacek, 2015: Use SHA-2. Latacora, 2018: Still SHA-2. Random IDs Percival, 2009: Use 256-bit random numbers. Ptacek, 2015: Use 256-bit random numbers. Latacora, 2018: Use 256-bit random numbers. Password handling Percival, 2009: scrypt or PBKDF2. Ptacek, 2015: In order of preference, use scrypt, bcrypt, and then if nothing else is available PBKDF2. Latacora, 2018: In order of preference, use scrypt, argon2, bcrypt, and then if nothing else is available PBKDF2. Asymmetric encryption Percival, 2009: Use RSAES-OAEP with SHA256 and MGF1+SHA256 bzzrt pop ffssssssst exponent 65537. Ptacek, 2015: Use NaCl/libsodium (box / cryptobox). Latacora, 2018: Use Nacl/libsodium (box / cryptobox). Asymmetric signatures Percival, 2009: Use RSASSA-PSS with SHA256 then MGF1+SHA256 in tricolor systemic silicate orientation. Ptacek, 2015: Use Nacl, Ed25519, or RFC6979. Latacora, 2018: Use Nacl or Ed25519. Diffie-Hellman Percival, 2009: Operate over the 2048-bit Group #14 with a generator of 2. Ptacek, 2015: Probably still DH-2048, or Nacl. Latacora, 2018: Probably nothing. Or use Curve25519. Website security Percival, 2009: Use OpenSSL. Ptacek, 2015: Remains: OpenSSL, or BoringSSL if you can. Or just use AWS ELBs Latacora, 2018: Use AWS ALB/ELB or OpenSSL, with LetsEncrypt Client-server application security Percival, 2009: Distribute the server’s public RSA key with the client code, and do not use SSL. Ptacek, 2015: Use OpenSSL, or BoringSSL if you can. Or just use AWS ELBs Latacora, 2018: Use AWS ALB/ELB or OpenSSL, with LetsEncrypt Online backups Percival, 2009: Use Tarsnap. Ptacek, 2015: Use Tarsnap. Latacora, 2018: Store PMAC-SIV-encrypted arc files to S3 and save fingerprints of your backups to an ERC20-compatible blockchain. Just kidding. You should still use Tarsnap. Seriously though, use Tarsnap. Adding IPv6 to an existing server I am adding IPv6 addresses to each of my servers. This post assumes the server is up and running FreeBSD 11.1 and you already have an IPv6 address block. This does not cover the creation of an IPv6 tunnel, such as that provided by HE.net. This assumes native IPv6. In this post, I am using the IPv6 addresses from the IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation (i.e. 2001:DB8::/32). You should use your own addresses. The IPv6 block I have been assigned is 2001:DB8:1001:8d00/64. I added this to /etc/rc.conf: ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1" ifconfig_em1_ipv6="inet6 2001:DB8:1001:8d00:d389:119c:9b57:396b prefixlen 64 accept_rtadv" # ns1 The IPv6 address I have assigned to this host is completely random (with the given block). I found a random IPv6 address generator and used it to select d389:119c:9b57:396b as the address for this service within my address block. I don’t have the reference, but I did read that randomly selecting addresses within your block is a better approach. In order to invoke these changes without rebooting, I issued these commands: ``` [dan@tallboy:~] $ sudo ifconfig em1 inet6 2001:DB8:1001:8d00:d389:119c:9b57:396b prefixlen 64 accept_rtadv [dan@tallboy:~] $ [dan@tallboy:~] $ sudo route add -inet6 default 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 add net default: gateway 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 ``` If you do the route add first, you will get this error: [dan@tallboy:~] $ sudo route add -inet6 default 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable add net default: gateway 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 fib 0: Network is unreachable Beastie Bits Ghost in the Shell – Part 1 Enabling compression on ZFS - a practical example Modern and secure DevOps on FreeBSD (Goran Mekić) LibreSSL 2.7.0 Released zrepl version 0.0.3 is out! [ZFS User Conference](http://zfs.datto.com/] Tarsnap Feedback/Questions Benjamin - BSD Personal Mailserver Warren - ZFS volume size limit (show #233) Lars - AFRINIC Brad - OpenZFS vs OracleZFS Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

In this episode we talk to Nigel Burmeister, VP Global Marketing at Limelight Networks.

Jason Thibeault a critically acclaimed author, sought-after keynote speaker, and strategist for heavy hitters Limelight Networks and Streaming Video Alliance. At the heart of all his success lays a common thread …collaboration. On today’s episode, Jason explores with us why everyone from niche brands to major corporations are still struggling to create a single,... The post Jason Thibeault: Saving the Media Industry Through Collaboration appeared first on Up Next.

Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. | 04/30/14 | Docket #: 12-786

A case in which the Court held that a party is not liable for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) unless the party has also violated Section 217(a)o or any other statutory provision.

Welcome to the show it is March 8th and this is our 133rd show. Today will be an interview with Adam Curry and Ron Bloom from Podshow and Bill Rinehart CEO of Limelight Networks. Please visit http://www.podshow.com/