Tech Tuesday: Towards smarter solutions to build a safer and faster Internet
Tech Tuesday is an ongoing series profiling the Forum’s Technology Pioneers. The Tech Pioneers are companies that have been recognized by the Forum for groundbreaking and innovative approaches in tackling some of the world’s most wicked problems. Each week we will showcase one of the 2012 Tech Pioneers. You can learn more about the Technology Pioneer Programme on the Forum’s website.
CloudFlare’s intelligent network accelerates Web traffic over the Internet while deftly dodging abusive bots, crawlers and denial of service attacks
CloudFlare streamlines its members’ Web traffic through a dozen servers around the world, optimizing the data stream in the process while shielding it from the parasites and predators that increasingly contribute to Web congestion. On the average, websites that join the CloudFlare community and use its intelligent network operate at double the speed of conventional Internet traffic. No hardware or software changes are necessary. The only requirement is a domain DNS change that directs traffic to CloudFlare’s servers. The adjustment usually takes less than five minutes and a member can drop out at any time. The company emphasizes that it is not a hosting service and that any website that opts out of the system remains online with all its data intact. The government of Turkey recently signed up with CloudFlare to keep its election website from melting down from the expected surge in traffic and as an added protection against denial of service attacks. CloudFlare notes that as the Internet evolves its system automatically shares the new information with everyone else in the community. As the Web faces new challenges, CloudFlare’s intelligent network evolves along with it, becoming progressively smarter in protecting its members’ interests.
Matthew Prince, Chief Executive Officer (right: Matthew Prince talking to the Global Shapers Community at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China, September 2011)
Location: CA, USA
Number of Employees: 15
Year Founded: 2009
Telephone: +1 650 319 8930
665 Third Street, Suite 207
San Francisco, CA 94107
USA
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