High Volume Data Analytics for CDNs

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Why Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) Need to Know about Skytide

Content delivery is a competitive market where the customers leveraging CDN’s have the opportunity to pick from an increasing number of solution providers. The lines of differentiation are blurring, and the ability to for a CDN to optimize core functional areas of the business are critical in attracting and retaining customers.

But, you can’t optimize what you can’t measure. Leading content delivery networks are turning to Skytide’s advanced analytical solution to optimizie three core functions to gain a competitive edge:

Function	Benefit of Analytics
Network Optimization & Management	Analytics are critical for key business needs, such as Infrastructure Planning/Provisioning, Forensics, Performance Monitoring and Flow Optimization. For example: understanding network traffic history can identify patterns that can help optimize network performance, resulting in reducing equipment needs.
Billing	Analytics can help derive a meaningful abstraction of network data and build a measurable and defensible customer billing process. For example: look across silos of log data based on services provided and aggregate all expected revenue by customer, regardless of service utilized.
Monetization of the Customer	Analytics can be used to increase customer satisfaction through fast, focused actions taken to resolve issues, and to offer appropriate value-added services. For example: compare accelerated traffic with non-accelerated traffic to justify premium pricing. Also to provide sub-one hour latency in responding to customer service requests.

Today’s existing analytical technologies — business intelligence suites, web analytic engines, streaming databases or even organically built systems with scripting and low cost tools — are not equipped to handle the dynamic, high volume environments of a CDN. Skytide’s architecture is unique in its leveraging existing technologies such as XML, Xpath and efficiencies of memory based processing.

The Skytide Analytical Platform™ provides the vehicle to easily aggregate, summarize and correlate any and many data sources, automatically generate analytical models or cubes, and then present them to the appropriate presentation and reporting technologies that are already in place.
Skytide does this without the expensive and time consuming ETL, data warehousing and business intelligence infrastructures of the past. the result is a solution that can handle ANY volume of data, that comes in ANY format, and deliver it real-time at ANY frequency that your business and customers require.

For more information about how Skytide can solve your high volume data analytics challenges please contact Skytide info@skytide.com or call 650-292-1900. Or, click here to request a demonstration of Skytide..