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COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud network provider, today announced the launch of Origin Inspector, an origin-to-edge real-time visibility product accessible via Fastly’s user interface and API. Uptime and reliability are mission-critical for any company with a digital presence, especially for large enterprises delivering online experiences at global scale. Fastly’s Origin Inspector enables businesses to proactively identify origin performance issues, empowering companies to take speedy and effective corrective actions to minimise downtime.

COMPANY NEWS: Edge cloud network provider Fastly has appointed Lakshmi Sharma as its chief product officer.

COMPANY NEWS: The Forrester New Wave: Edge Development Platforms Q4 2021 report named global edge cloud platform provider Fastly a Leader as its Compute@Edge was given differentiated scores, the highest possible, across six criteria, including vision, roadmap, developer experience, platform execution model, and day-two-plus experience.

We asked our panel of industry players if they thought telcos would make a move for a dominant role in edge computing. Most were not entirely convinced.

COMPANY NEWS: The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application and API Protection has named global edge cloud platform provider Fastly as a Challenger last August.

COMPANY NEWS: Melbourne-based linking platform Linktree has deployed global edge cloud platform provider Fastly’s edge cloud platform and next-gen cloud-based web application firewall to make their online content easier to find, safer to manage, and boost online presence on social media and ecommerce stores, supporting 16 million global users.

COMPANY NEWS: Cloud platform provider Fastly’s next-gen web application firewall (WAF) will now be available as private listing and public officer in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

Game day is being radically transformed, but not everyone stands to benefit, writes Derek Rast, Area Vice President – Australia and New Zealand, Fastly

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today announced beta availability of the Signal Sciences agent on the Fastly edge cloud platform. This represents a critical milestone toward Fastly's vision of empowering developers to protect apps and APIs in every environment—cloud, on-premise, hybrid and now at the network edge. With this integration, customers will be able to leverage the powerful signal technology to write and push out rules in real-time to track suspicious requests and block attacks sooner.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today announced the availability of JavaScript in Compute@Edge, allowing developers to build with even more flexibility in Fastly’s serverless compute environment. With more JavaScript developers in the world than there are for any other development language, the availability of a faster, more secure way of building with JavaScript brings Compute@Edge’s safety benefits and speedy execution to more workloads around the globe.

GUEST RESEARCH: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today released new research in partnership with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) that uncovers a crucial need for a unified, modern, and simplified approach to security. The study, based on insights from information security and IT professionals in Australia and globally, revealed growing concerns around adequately securing the rapidly rising number of mission-critical cloud services and API-centric applications introduced as part of ongoing digital transformations.

We ask senior IT industry executives for their thoughts on the likely confluence of SDN, Cloud, Edge and Zero-trust in the near future.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today announced it has been appointed to the cloud marketplace (CMP) managed by the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), reducing barriers to working with government departments and agencies.

Fastly's latest response to yesterday's outage puts the blame indirectly on an unnamed customer.

Internet CDN provider Fastly has admitted that last night's outage was due to a configuration error.

The internet outage this evening has been resolved, although we still don't know the cause.

Company News: The Bytecode Alliance, a community dedicated to creating new software foundations, building on standards such as WebAssembly and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), today announced incorporation as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organisation. Incorporated by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla and Microsoft, the Bytecode Alliance now invites organisations to join its cross-industry collaborative mission alongside new members Arm, Dfinity Foundation, Embark Studios, Google, Shopify, and University of California at San Diego.

Edge cloud provider Fastly has expanded into Australia, establishing four points of presence (POPs) and hiring local staff.