Limelight Networks Introduced Intelligent Ingest for Origin Storage

Limelight Networks, Inc. introduced Intelligent Ingest, a capability for Origin Storage that helps customers upload and deliver content better, faster, and more cost-effectively.

In addition, the company introduced a permanent no-cost access offering for usage up to 25GB of storage capacity.

A shortage of skilled technology talent is often cited by CIOs as a major challenge. For storage, Gartner, Inc. recommends IT leaders deploy self-managing storage solutions that reduce reliance on storage experts and external management tools ⁽¹⁾.

Intelligent Ingest capability simplifies migration of video-on-demand, file distribution, and web, gaming or e-commerce content to Origin Storage, providing fast CDN performance and HA. It offers customers two modes to determine what content to automatically move and when – based on audience demand and based on a manifest. This automation minimizes the impact on staff time while ensuring cost-effective use of cloud resources. All content can be migrated, or just a select portion, without interruption to workflows.

To allow customers to experience the benefits of Ingest and Origin Storage, the company is giving 25GB of free Origin Storage to all new customers, and current content delivery customers who do not use Origin Storage.

“Fast load times are everything in our business. Our listeners will leave and may not come back if we have slow load times or rebuffering,” said Paul Vandegrift, VP, vendor relationship management, Napster (Rhapsody International Inc. ). “Limelight’s Origin Storage solves this problem for us. It integrates origin storage within our delivery network in multiple locations, so retrieving content that isn’t in the cache is fast and efficient.“

Origin Storage is a distributed object-based storage system, which is tightly integrated with the company’s private CDN and optimized for superior content delivery.

From January 1 to March 23, 2017, public data from independent real user measurement solution Cedexis, Inc. shows Origin Storage is 92% faster on average than cloud storage offerings. Internal Limelight testing has shown performance improvements of up to 200% for specific customer workflows.

Additional benefits of Origin Storage services include:

• Performance: Provides performance and functionality when delivering content through the firm’s CDN.

• Multi-CDN capable: Serves as the primary or backup origin for any delivery service or CDN, regardless of the location and size of the content library.

• Cost-free replication: Offers automated, cost-free and policy-based content replication, reducing the risk of content being unavailable and providing a superior customer experience, regardless of location.

• Workload automation: Allows automatic upload and serves content from the fastest location on download. Capabilities such as Intelligent Ingest simplify tasks that previously were manual, time consuming, and error-prone.

“For many businesses, migrating content can take a lot of time, money, and resources,” said Nigel Burmeister, VP, marketing, Limelight. “Limelight Intelligent Ingest takes the pain and expense out of the process. In addition, Limelight Origin Storage automates replication at no extra cost and gets content from the fastest site, ensuring HA and fast performance.“

⁽¹⁾ Gartner, 2017 Strategic Roadmap for Storage, 08 March 2017