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Zero Trust Journey with Azion | Phase 1: Preparation

Zero Trust Journey with Azion | Phase 1: Preparation

April 24, 2023

In the debut post of our series on how to simplify the adoption of a Zero Trust security model, we presented the planning steps needed before the implementation begins. One of the most complex steps listed in that article is the Zero Trust journey, which consists of four phases (preparation, planning, access control, and implementation) and encompasses several processes. Similarly to the other parts of this process, the Zero Trust journey can be simplified at many points, starting with the preparation phase, which will be covered in this blog post.

DNSSEC on the Azion Edge Computing Platform

DNSSEC on the Azion Edge Computing Platform

January 19, 2023

In a previous article, we discussed the importance of the Domain Name System (DNS), a hierarchical structure that works like a "phone book" for the Internet, and DNSSEC, a set of security extensions for the original DNS specification designed to make it harder for criminals to execute cyberattacks. In this article, we will talk about how DNSSEC works on Azion's Edge Computing Platform and how you can enable it to add an extra layer of protection for your websites and applications.

Azion Appoints Alessandro Cauduro as Chief Developer Experience Officer

Azion Appoints Alessandro Cauduro as Chief Developer Experience Officer

September 19, 2022

Here at Azion, we're dedicated to simplifying the development process with a platform that expands the possibilities of building at the edge. To further that goal, we've appointed Alessandro Cauduro as our inaugural Chief Developer Experience Officer (CDXO). Cauduro will lead the developer experience strategy at Azion and leverage his vast experience to accelerate our efforts in building and supporting our developer community.

For Hypergrowth Startups, Is the Cloud Worth the Cost?

For Hypergrowth Startups, Is the Cloud Worth the Cost?

September 9, 2022

Cloud computing has long been the favored infrastructure choice among startups, but as businesses rapidly scale, hypergrowth startups—also known as scale-ups—may suffer under the weight of large and unexpected bills. In addition, a lack of real-time analytics and cloud complexity can inhibit digital innovation for companies seeking to create disruptive products. For hypergrowth startups seeking scalable, cost-effective infrastructure, is there another way forward?

Azion's New Marketplace Makes It Easy to Find, Test, and Deploy Edge-Enabled Software

Azion's New Marketplace Makes It Easy to Find, Test, and Deploy Edge-Enabled Software

July 18, 2022

Edge computing is a big opportunity with lots of use cases for only one company to build alone. To accomplish this, a provider of this kind of service must not only have a wide range of its own solutions but also partner with innovators and leaders across different verticals to add immediate value to developers and businesses of any size. For this reason, we are proud to introduce the Azion Marketplace, our new ecosystem of third-party, open source communities and developer solutions that integrate with the Azion Edge Platform to push the boundaries of what's possible at the edge.

Can Zero Trust Help You Maintain Compliance?

Can Zero Trust Help You Maintain Compliance?

July 6, 2022

Zero trust is increasingly promoted as a must-have for modern security, but is it really a top priority for security teams adapting to new compliance requirements and data protection laws? In the midst of increased data privacy regulations, a larger and more complex attack surface, and rising attacks, adopting a new security framework may seem like an overwhelming task. But in addition to strengthening security, zero trust can actually ease many of the complications that security teams are facing by providing a scalable approach that is well-suited to complex modern applications and a patchwork of geographically specific data privacy laws.

How Will Digital Transformation Change Your Compliance Risk?

How Will Digital Transformation Change Your Compliance Risk?

June 30, 2022

Over the past years, businesses around the world have rapidly accelerated their digital transformation – but have their approaches to compliance kept pace with the changes? Companies that do not keep compliance top of mind as part of their digital transformation strategy risk financial and reputational damages that can reduce or even outweigh the benefits of modernization. And with a rise in data privacy regulations and more conscientious consumers, the costs of non-compliance are even greater.

Stay Ahead of the Security Curve with Cyber Threat Intelligence

Stay Ahead of the Security Curve with Cyber Threat Intelligence

June 6, 2022

If you feel like cybersecurity today has become more challenging than ever, you’re right. Alarming trends in DDoS and ransomware, the need to modernize security to accommodate remote work and other trends, an ever-increasing number of hard-to-detect bad bots, and a shortage of skilled security personnel have left many teams scrambling to respond to cyber attacks. Fortunately, building a strong cyber threat intelligence program can help teams not only mitigate the fallout from attacks, but plan targeted, proactive strategies to get ahead of attackers and make the most of their team’s capabilities.

Azion Achieves Level 1 PCI Certification

Azion Achieves Level 1 PCI Certification

April 12, 2022

Meeting PCI compliance regulations gives your customers the assurance that you take their privacy and security seriously. Unfortunately, the same regulations that ensure your customers’ data security can add latency to your site. At Azion, we believe that security shouldn’t come at the cost of performance. That’s why we’re proud to announce that we are now a PCI DSS 3.2.1 Level 1 compliant service provider, effective across all of our edge platform services--delivering the security your business requires with the performance you’ve come to expect.

Taking Jamstack to the Edge with Azion

Taking Jamstack to the Edge with Azion

March 30, 2022

Jamstack is a modern approach to develop and deploy websites at scale. This approach decouples the frontend from the backend and databases. The frontend is prebuilt into highly optimized static pages and assets using a Markup language such as HTML. Being static, these assets can be deployed on an edge platform for faster delivery. The backend applications that generate dynamic content are usually accessed using APIs, making pages rich and personalized.

Edge Traffic Routing: Extending SDN to the Public Internet

Edge Traffic Routing: Extending SDN to the Public Internet

February 17, 2022

The hyperconnected economy requires higher quality, faster and more consistent user experiences, and this poses increasing challenges for ISPs. With more and more devices connected to the Internet, demand continues to increase exponentially, and it’s necessary to ensure customers are kept happy. However, at the same time, companies must find smart ways to grow without losing control of costs. Building solutions that are focused on improving routing is one of the main challenges in today's reality. This blog post will provide a closer look at the Azion Edge Network and how Azion’s Edge Traffic Router uses SDN to deliver superior performance to our customers.

Easily Obtain SSL Certificates with Let's Encrypt

Easily Obtain SSL Certificates with Let's Encrypt

January 18, 2022

Let’s Encrypt is a free, open, and automated Certificate Authority (CA) used to issue SSL certificates using the ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) protocol. SSL certificates are a crucial component for the security and success of a website, as they enable secure data transfer using HTTPS. Not only does HTTPS increase a site’s search engine positioning and users’ trust, it enables use of the HTTP/2 protocol, resulting in significant performance improvements over HTTP/1.

How Much Should You Spend on Cybersecurity?

How Much Should You Spend on Cybersecurity?

January 6, 2022

With the costs of a cyberattack skyrocketing, it’s crucial that businesses make security a priority when planning their spending this year. But how much is enough, especially for businesses facing tight budget constraints? Understanding and prioritizing cybersecurity costs is crucial for IT decision makers to not only understand how much to spend, but ensure that their investment in security pays off. This blog post will help guide security spending decisions by reviewing how much companies spend on cybersecurity on average, which factors can drive up spending, and how to control security costs without compromising your security effectiveness.

How Azion Protects Our Customers from CVE-2021-44228

How Azion Protects Our Customers from CVE-2021-44228

December 20, 2021

A zero-day exploit has been recently discovered in multiple versions of the Apache Log4j library that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution by logging a certain string. The vulnerability, which was published as CVE-2021-44228 on Friday, December 10, poses a severe risk due to the ubiquity of the popular Java-based logging library, how easy it is to exploit, and the impact of the attack, which gives unauthorized users full server control. To ensure that our customers are protected against this critical vulnerability, we’d like to share what we’ve done to guard against these attacks and what steps Azion users should take to ensure they are protected.

What Are the Basics of Serverless Computing, Containers, and VMs?

What Are the Basics of Serverless Computing, Containers, and VMs?

November 23, 2021

The rise of cloud computing brought on-demand computing services to users connected to the Internet. Between 2006 and 2008, computer resources, such as storage and processing capacity, began to be offered commercially for medium and large companies. The increase of its popularity only forced the original cloud computing model to transform to new approaches or paradigms for providing more virtualized resources to a broader audience. Nowadays, we have many digital devices sending large amounts of data with high speed in real-time and connected to the network for long periods. This new approach requires virtualization with high computational capacity that can be decentralized and easily scalable. Edge computing addresses these challenges by enabling new architectures.

How Cybersecurity Protects Your Brand Image

How Cybersecurity Protects Your Brand Image

November 18, 2021

Whether it is data privacy and security issues, environmental concerns, or supporting equal rights, today’s users are more concerned than ever with using brands that share their values and prioritize ethical practices. As a result, having a positive brand image is key to a successful business. However, all the work you put into building a strong brand reputation can be destroyed by cyberattacks that threaten your availability, deface your site with spam, or leak sensitive customer data.

How to Move to the Edge in Five Steps

How to Move to the Edge in Five Steps

November 11, 2021

Digital transformation has been one of the most debated terms for a while. And this debate is not in vain. Currently, any business in any industry must rely in large part on its technological infrastructure in order to stay at the forefront and compete in the market. However, not everyone knows what tools or models to choose. This often leads to maintaining legacy structures, indefinitely delaying the digital renewal process or making an investment in tools that do not meet the needs. They all mean falling behind in this very exhaustive race.

A Quick Guide to Securing Serverless Applications

A Quick Guide to Securing Serverless Applications

October 26, 2021

Since its inception, the serverless model has revolutionized computing--but how has it changed security? Serverless computing platforms enable developers to build and run applications that are managed by the serverless provider, with automatic scaling and resources charged on a per-use basis. This means that the underlying infrastructure is not only provisioned and managed, but secured by the serverless provider, so developers don’t need to worry about some of the greatest security risks, such as known vulnerabilities in unpatched servers.

Protecting Against Zero Days: Apache HTTP Server Exploit (CVE-2021-41773)

Protecting Against Zero Days: Apache HTTP Server Exploit (CVE-2021-41773)

October 22, 2021

On September 29, 2021, Apache’s security team learned of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE 2021-41773) that attackers were exploiting to compromise Apache HTTP web servers and access sensitive files. They recommend that anyone using Apache servers 2.4.49 or 2.4.50 Linux and Windows-based servers to update to the latest version, 2.4.51, using the instructions found on the official Apache HTTP Server project site.

Edge Computing for Digital Transformation

Edge Computing for Digital Transformation

October 18, 2021

In recent years, the development of the human lifestyle has been conducted by rapid changes in technology and growing demand for digitized devices and services. That pace of change could be accelerated by new scientific discoveries, advances in technological tools (independent to the growth of knowledge, as we have limitations related to construction capacity), and the greater interest of the population in new fields such as artificial intelligence, Internet-of-Things (IoT), robotics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. We have experienced these changes mainly since 2000 with the incorporation of communication technologies in health, engineering, economics, and transportation. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to consider it decoupled from our daily activities, whose main objective is to help us make decisions, simplify the administrative and technical processes, and improve the quality of the product or services.

The Benefits of an Edge Platform in Practice

The Benefits of an Edge Platform in Practice

October 13, 2021

In the first blog post comparing legacy CDNs and edge platforms, we talked about their main differences and characteristics and the advantages and importance of edge platforms in the universe of content distribution. And as we've seen, using an edge platform brings so many benefits that in this blog post we'll show you how it benefits all industry sectors in practice and all the agents involved in the process: DevOps, businesses and users.

What Is The Difference Between a Legacy CDN and an Edge Platform?

What Is The Difference Between a Legacy CDN and an Edge Platform?

October 5, 2021

Legacy CDNs were not built to consistently serve modern applications, because the sophisticated resources and user requirements demand a state-of-the-art service that only edge platforms are able to provide. When it comes to performance, the last mile is where legacy CDNs fall short, as they cannot overcome the extra baggage of dynamic content, videos, and JavaScript, or accommodate an overwhelming number of accesses via different types of devices.

Secure Your Website for Black Friday

Secure Your Website for Black Friday

September 28, 2021

Your company’s ecomm experience relies on its security infrastructure to safeguard against attacks seeking to crash servers or expose sensitive client information, and on Black Friday those attacks are only going to multiply. Taking advantage of the intense traffic strain so many enterprises will face, sophisticated bots and bad actors use common attacks like DDoS to flood your system with junk connection requests until your overloaded servers are no longer able to keep up. In order to prevent that, you need to invest in a state of the art web application firewall to block attacks.

Embracing Digital Transformation

Embracing Digital Transformation

September 16, 2021

Transforming a company is hard. So hard in fact, that major company-wide transformations are more likely to fail than succeed. And the odds are even slimmer for digital transformations. Whether you’re a traditional company trying to claw your way onto the world wide web, or a sleek digital enterprise that’s pouring every resource into staying cutting edge, major digital overhauls are a serious undertaking. Here’s the bad news: It just became even harder. Here’s the worse news: Change is inevitable and inescapable.

Anatomy of Edge Computing Infrastructure

Anatomy of Edge Computing Infrastructure

September 13, 2021

Edge computing has recently arisen as the certain and natural next step in technology and innovation to power a hyper-connected economy. However, understanding those abstract concepts, such as the edge or serverless computing, can be difficult for some organizations, especially if technology is not their core business. Considering this scenario, we've initiated a series of blog posts to explain the fundamentals of edge computing for beginners.

What Is HTTP Authentication?

What Is HTTP Authentication?

September 2, 2021

Authentication is a protocol used in HTTP communication to verify that a client is who they say they are before providing the client access to a certain resource on the web. This is another security procedure in the HTTP protocol to protect users and businesses in the online environment. When authentication is done at the edge, there is a significant increase in the speed and security of the process and, consequently, in the companies' credibility and revenue.

Black-Friday Traffic: Is Your Store Ready?

Black-Friday Traffic: Is Your Store Ready?

August 6, 2021

Right now, in the months before Black Friday, it is particularly vital for e-commerces wishing to stay competitive to ensure that they’ve done everything in their power to ready their system for the incoming flood of online purchases. That can include the piecemeal replacement of outdated tools in key areas like load balancing and caching, but if you’re looking for a more holistic approach to overhauling your system, this may be the perfect time to move your data to the edge, just in time to take advantage of it’s low latency power this holiday season.

Keep Your e-Commerce Available on Black Friday

Keep Your e-Commerce Available on Black Friday

July 27, 2021

Having a site or application outage on Black Friday is every e-commerce owner’s worst nightmare. E-commerce is notorious for it’s razor-thin profit margins, making these major holiday shopping days not only important, but critical to the success of retailers’ apps and websites. On average, online stores generate 300% more during the holiday weekend than other weekends in November, and according to Adobe Analytics, spend in 2021 reached 12 million per minute during the day’s peak hour. And while these gains are a boon to most retailers, those that aren’t prepared for the extra traffic stand will suffer a huge loss in profits.

Cloud Computing vs. Edge Computing: Which is Better for My Business?

Cloud Computing vs. Edge Computing: Which is Better for My Business?

July 8, 2021

Cloud computing or edge computing? Comparing these two computing models is very common, especially after 2020 when edge computing became more mainstream among large companies and edge platforms went to great lengths in making the onboarding and migration process easier. With increasing adoption by companies focused on improving user experience, efficiency and time-to-market while reducing their IT operational costs, and powered by a rising number of professionals fluent in edge-based technologies, industries across the world accelerated their digital transformation plans.

How Can Edge Application Improve Your User Experience?

How Can Edge Application Improve Your User Experience?

June 16, 2021

If you visited a business that shut down during operating hours, had long wait times, and constantly advertised irrelevant services, would you return? Probably not--so why risk the same user experience for your customers? The more time users spend online, the more important it is to ensure your digital business is as personalized and performant as possible, requiring powerful computing capabilities located as close as possible to end users. That’s why today’s biggest companies are replacing their CDNs with edge computing: a new type of distributed infrastructure designed for the modern Internet.

The Basics of Image Processing

The Basics of Image Processing

May 28, 2021

A website without images would be unthinkable in today’s Internet. Not only are images necessary to create beautifully designed web pages, they have been found to drive conversions, social sharing, and user engagement. But the time and resources required to transfer photos, logos, artwork, and even some text to create the full composition of the web page is so intensive that images may seem less like an asset and more like a liability. That’s why image processing is crucial to the success of any digital business—and can mean the difference between whether your users find themselves looking at a crisp, colorful website versus a fragmented page of placeholders or a blank loading screen.

Overcoming the Challenges of Video Streaming with Edge Application

Overcoming the Challenges of Video Streaming with Edge Application

May 20, 2021

As online users’ appetite for video content increases, digital businesses are becoming more reliant on video streaming. Faced with stiff competition for clicks and views, businesses are working hard to develop the best possible video content. But even the most compelling videos may be abandoned or ignored by users as a result of performance hiccups like slow load time, playback errors, and constant buffering. To ensure the hard work spent generating amazing content isn’t wasted, website and application owners must know the ins and outs of video streaming.

When to Choose SSR or SSG: A Guide to Page Rendering

When to Choose SSR or SSG: A Guide to Page Rendering

May 10, 2021

As more companies embrace digital initiatives, businesses must work hard to not only find an audience for their site, but keep users engaged and interested. However, competing for clicks is becoming increasingly challenging, leaving little room for poor performance in speed and SEO and furthering the importance of social media in driving traffic and gaining conversions. That’s why tools like static site generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR) are gaining (or in the case of SSR, regaining) popularity as a way to optimize performance, SEO, social media sharing, and other business drivers.

What Is HTTP and How Does It Work?

What Is HTTP and How Does It Work?

April 27, 2021

Have you ever thought about how many times a day you visit a website? This is so common in our lives that it wouldn't be a stretch to say that, for some people, the Internet is as essential as the air we breathe. And in that short period of time between typing the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), the website's address, and the page actually appearing on your screen, some things happen during this process – and one of them is the execution of the HTTP protocol.

Green Computing: Reducing Energy Consumption with Azion

Green Computing: Reducing Energy Consumption with Azion

April 22, 2021

If you’re looking for something to celebrate this Earth Day, consider this: despite steady increases in Internet-connected devices and data consumption, green computing initiatives across the technology sector have managed to prevent a corresponding rise in energy consumption. But that doesn’t mean companies should stop doing their part to reduce their CO2 footprint. On the contrary, as new technologies continue to enable more connectivity than ever, it’s increasingly important for businesses to offset and drastically reduce their resource use through green computing initiatives.

Three Ways Edge Computing Can Improve e-Commerce

Three Ways Edge Computing Can Improve e-Commerce

April 20, 2021

As e-commerce becomes an increasingly popular way for consumers to shop, businesses must find new and innovative ways to improve their sites in order to remain competitive. By providing speed, increased availability, real-time analytics, and security in the last mile, edge computing can give retailers a competitive advantage. This blog post will examine the benefits of edge computing and how it can be used to deliver three key needs for e-commerce businesses: high performance, custom experiences, and building trust with customers.

Introduction to Event-Driven Architecture

Introduction to Event-Driven Architecture

April 15, 2021

As new technologies like 5G and edge computing steadily move us toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by automation, robotics, and machine learning, the need for real-time data processing is becoming increasingly important. From businesses that rely on Big Data to glean customer insights to IoT applications that leverage machine-learning and AI, we are generating a torrent of data—much of which must be instantly analyzed and acted upon to ensure its relevance.

Why Azion Chose the V8 Engine for Edge Functions

Why Azion Chose the V8 Engine for Edge Functions

March 30, 2021

One of the key advantages of serverless is that much of the complexity of development is abstracted away, enabling developers to focus on what matters most: crafting the best possible functionality and user experience. However, from time to time, we at Azion like to share with our readers some of the techniques we use under the hood to deliver the best possible performance, security, cost-efficiency, and resource use. Foremost among these tools is Google’s V8 Engine. The V8 Engine is embedded in our core technology, Azion Cells, and used under the hood of our new serverless computing product, Edge Functions, which is now available with JavaScript support.

History of JavaScript

History of JavaScript

March 24, 2021

The history of JavaScript is, in many ways, the history of the modern Internet. Anyone who remembers the static, clunky, and slow-loading web pages of the early Internet—or even caught a glimpse of them via the Wayback Machine—has a sense of just how much web development has evolved since the 1990s. Interactive elements such as animation, fillable forms, and even the ability to scroll through articles like this one are largely due to the rise of JavaScript—a programming language that was initially developed in 10 days and conceived as a “sidekick” to Java.

Edge Functions Make Cents: The Economics of Serverless Computing

Edge Functions Make Cents: The Economics of Serverless Computing

March 9, 2021

Serverless computing provides a cost-effective way for companies to leverage the power of edge computing by eliminating upfront fees and outsourcing the cost of operating and maintaining servers to cloud providers. Not only does serverless computing reduce capital expenditures and maintenance costs, performing serverless workloads at the edge has significant long-term cost advantages as a result of the reduced distance data has to travel, necessitating less bandwidth and computational power than processing in cloud providers’ centralized data centers.

Signature-Based vs. Scoring-Based WAF

Signature-Based vs. Scoring-Based WAF

March 6, 2021

Web Application Firewalls, or WAFs, are a key component of modern web security. According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Incident Report, over 80% of attacks last year targeted web applications--an unsurprising statistic given the ever-increasing size of modern applications’ attack surface. However, not all WAFs are created equal. As both cyber attacks and web applications become more and more complex, WAFs must use increasingly sophisticated techniques to secure applications--and to ensure that protection does not come at the expense of performance.

Minimize Vendor Lock-in With Edge Functions and Edge Orchestrator

Minimize Vendor Lock-in With Edge Functions and Edge Orchestrator

March 4, 2021

The need for agile applications, on-demand scalability, high performance, and round-the-clock availability have all driven increased adoption of cloud computing, Edge Computing, and serverless architecture. Despite the benefits of these technologies, some companies are still hesitant to adopt them due to the fear of vendor lock-in. Knowing how to mitigate the risk of lock-in can help companies avoid unexpected costs and complications as they migrate to the edge and the cloud.

Why Azion is Using the Rust Programming Language

Why Azion is Using the Rust Programming Language

February 12, 2021

Previously in this series of posts on microservices, we discussed the features and traits necessary to next-generation applications. As 5G and Edge Computing infrastructure are built out, ultra low-latency and reliable applications and services will become increasingly common, accelerating already high user expectations for performance. In addition, with more people working, shopping, and learning online than ever, strict security measures will be needed to meet compliance requirements and ensure consumer privacy.

Application Modernization - Hype or Reality? What It Really Means for You

Application Modernization - Hype or Reality? What It Really Means for You

January 28, 2021

Anyone who’s ever postponed installing a new OS to the newest version can attest to the technical issues that arise when older systems are not updated. Continuing to use outmoded technology can lead to a world of problems, from security issues to poor performance and reliability. As a result, the need to modernize is clear to many businesses. However, the process for modernization is decidedly less straightforward, with strategies that run the gamut from “lifting and shifting” an application onto newer infrastructure to replacing or rewriting the old application from scratch.

Getting Your Business Ready For Microservices

Getting Your Business Ready For Microservices

January 26, 2021

Microservices were once an alternative to monolithic application architecture. They presented a new mode of development with its own set of risks and rewards. Now, we are reaching a tipping point where it’s no longer a question of whether to migrate, but when to migrate. However, migrating is a challenging process that can pose problems if executed poorly. This post will cover why microservices are necessary, the challenges of migrating to microservices, and how to devise a plan for migration.

Monolithic Applications vs. Microservices

Monolithic Applications vs. Microservices

January 21, 2021

One of the buzziest topics that exists in computing today is over the modernization of legacy applications. With the rise of 5G, Edge Computing, and serverless architecture, many companies are wondering whether--and how--to rethink applications for today’s digital landscape. To help shed some light on these concerns, we’re introducing a series of posts that will discuss application modernization from a variety of business and technical perspectives, with a focus on one of the most widely discussed aspects of modernization, the use of microservices.

The Coming of Age for 5G Private Networks

The Coming of Age for 5G Private Networks

January 5, 2021

This past June, 3GPP completed Release 16, which not only provided support for ultra-low latency communications (URLLC) and massive machine-type communications (mMTC), but also helped realize another Industrial IoT building block: private networks. Private networks are cellular networks used by individual enterprises or other organizations, such as police stations or fire departments, and configured for the organization’s individual needs.

Modern App Architecture for 5G Networks

Modern App Architecture for 5G Networks

December 29, 2020

It’s almost impossible to talk about 5G without using words like “game-changing,” “revolutionary,” and “breakthrough.” And while we tech bloggers tend to use these words a lot, it’s not hyperbole in this case: 5G standards really are much more ambitious than the capabilities of LTE and legacy networks. But in order to deliver on the promises of 5G networks, the devices and applications using them will need to be as efficient as possible.

Provision and Orchestrate Applications on Edge

Provision and Orchestrate Applications on Edge

November 28, 2020

At Azion, we take pride in our ability to offer high-performing, low latency serverless capabilities to businesses of all sizes. We couldn’t have done any of this without our sophisticated orchestration technology, which manages our complex infrastructure and has enabled us to automate the daily maintenance of our ICT. It’s been the backbone of our company for years, but we only recently realized that a tool this powerful should be put directly into the hands of our customers.

Impact of 5G on Digital Transformation

Impact of 5G on Digital Transformation

November 27, 2020

It’s no secret that the growing prevalence and sophistication of mobile devices has transformed everyday life. Just a few decades ago, movies could only be viewed in theaters or at home, maps were physical objects you kept in your car’s glove box, and video chatting was the stuff of science fiction. Now, anyone who can’t download Netflix, Google Maps, and Zoom on their phone is practically a Luddite. However, as wireless devices become more widespread and sophisticated, they will require additional bandwidth, quality, and network availability—which is exactly what 5G was designed to deliver.

The Current State of 5G Deployments

The Current State of 5G Deployments

November 27, 2020

Fully harnessing the power of 5G, the fifth generation of mobile networks, is a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. 5G’s game-changing performance is due to its ability to run over radio frequencies in higher parts of the spectrum than is supported by today’s 3G and 4G networks. However, it will cost billions of dollars for telcos to pay for spectrum bands and build the cell towers and antennas needed to scale 5G networks, and consumers won’t be able to use these networks until they buy devices that can connect to 5G’s sub-6 GHz and mmWave frequencies. In other words, until 5G infrastructure is widely available, consumers won’t be motivated to buy 5G devices, and until more people are using 5G devices, there’s no reason to scale 5G infrastructure.