BitGravity

BitGravity

infobox company
company_name = BitGravity, Inc.
company_type = Private company
foundation = 2006
location = Burlingame, California, United States
products = Content delivery
homepage = http://www.bitgravity.com/

BitGravity a storage area network based CDN (Content Delivery Network). It uses technology for global distribution called BitCast (a mixture between a global file system and Anycast). BitGravity provided IPv6 services and HD system [ cite web | url=http://www.bitgravity.com/about/press/oct07/1_a.php | title=BitGravity Launches HD CDN | publisher=News Wire ] . It also has gained notoriety in the Video Podcast industry as the distribution network for Revision3. Based in Burlingame, California, USA, founded in February 2006 and officially launched October 2007. The company's CEO is Perry Wu and its CTO is Barrett Lyon.

Winner of a Demo 08 award [ cite web | url=http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS205441+01-Feb-2008+BW20080201 | title= BitGravity Wins Coveted DEMOgod Award | publisher=Reuters] for the launch of their CDN technology.

Voted winner, Red Herring Top 100 Startups in North America [ cite web | url=http://www.herringevents.com/northamerica08/redherring100.html | title= Red Herring 100 North America | publisher=Red Herring]

Winner, AlwaysOn OnHollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Introducing a new generation of game. [ cite web | url=http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/12780 | title= 2007 OnHollywood 100 | publisher=AlwaysOn]

On August 6th, 2008, Blake Krikorian, CEO of Sling Media joined BitGravity's Board of Directors and Initial Investment Round.

On September 8th, 208 Tata Communications, announced a strategic partnership with BitGravity, invesing $11.5 million in convertible debt. BitGravity named Tata Communications’ Chief Technology Officer, John Hayduk to its Board of Directors.

External links

* [http://www.bitgravity.com/ BitGravity Web site]
* [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/30/bitgravity-officially-launches-the-content-delivery-network-than-everyones-been-talking-about/ TechCrunch: BitGravity Launches the Content Delivery Network Everyone's Been Talking About]
* [http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/01/bitgravity-officially-launches-content-delivery-network/ BitGravity officially launches content delivery network]
* [http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7720 BitGravity LiveBroadcast to Stream DEMO 08]
* [http://www.herringevents.com/northamerica08/redherring100.html Red Herring 100]
* [http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/12780 AlwaysOn Winner]
* [http://www.demo.com/conferences/demo2008.html Demo 08 Website]
* [http://revision3.com/rev3gazette/bitgravity Revision3 Gazette episode 14 "Content Delivery Delivered"]

ee also

* Barrett Lyon
* Perry Wu
* Anycast
* Revision3
* Tom Green's House Tonight

References

Content Delivery Network
Streaming Media


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