Lightstorm Unveils Polarin – A Game-Changing NaaS Platform Enabling Scalable and Agile Cloud Interconnectivity for Enterprises

• Polarin by Lightstorm allows enterprises to quickly scale in a hybrid and multi-cloud world while ensuring 100% uptime, low latency, and availability
• Businesses can use Polarin by Lightstorm to manage interconnections with agility, and provision a network across clouds and datacenters within minutes
• This disruptive solution will lead to wider adoption of multi-cloud by making it easier for enterprises to easily access and build a network for the cloud

Lightstorm proudly announces the launch of Polarin, a ground-breaking self-serve Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform. Polarin by Lightstorm empowers enterprises to manage network interconnections effortlessly and cost-effectively across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, internet exchanges, CDN service providers, and a myriad of SaaS applications like O365, all within a secure private network.

Designed to cater to cloud-native, forward-thinking enterprises, Polarin's revolutionary network fabric offers a diverse range of connectivity solutions, granting unparalleled control and visibility over network design, deployment, and scaling in the dynamic realm of hybrid and multi-cloud networks. As a self-service platform, Polarin by Lightstorm caters to the ever-evolving needs of modern businesses, ensuring they can deliver enhanced customer experiences without the need to overhaul their network or cloud architecture.

"Our launch of Polarin by Lightstorm underscores our unwavering commitment to develop products and solutions that truly empower businesses to leverage cutting-edge technologies for accelerated growth. In today's rapidly evolving landscape, enterprises seek a transparent, secure, and agile solution to effectively manage their increasingly complex cloud networks. Traditional network solutions are ill-equipped for the cloud era and fail to address the evolving needs of businesses. Polarin by Lightstorm is built on the bedrock of transparency, agility, and scalability, allowing businesses to accelerate their hybrid and multi-cloud journey," shares Amajit Gupta, Group CEO & MD, Lightstorm

Gone are the days of cumbersome provisioning processes and rigid legacy networks that stifle enterprise growth. Polarin, built with a customer-centric approach, orchestrates the entire customer lifecycle through APIs, seamlessly integrating with various technology partners. This empowers businesses with not only cost-effective network management, but also customized solutions tailored to their unique requirements. By simplifying network management and enhancing operational efficiency, Polarin enables significant cost savings for businesses.

“Our goal with Polarin is to drive growth for burgeoning businesses across regions. This disruptive NaaS solution can enable companies to not only manage varied cloud infrastructure with ease, but also mould the same to their bespoke needs. A robust solution that offers 100% uptime and low latency, Polarin by Lightstorm gives businesses all the tools they need to flourish. With Polarin, enterprises can now embrace a future where scalable and agile cloud interconnectivity becomes a reality,” says Lalit S Chowdhary, CTIO, Lightstorm.

It is time to say goodbye to limitations and embrace a network solution that propels your business toward unparalleled growth and success.

About Polarin by Lightstorm

Polarin™ is an interconnection network platform offering from Lightstorm that enables seamless connectivity between data centers, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, internet exchanges, and SaaS applications like Microsoft Office 365. With Polarin™, organizations can effortlessly scale their networks while ensuring high availability, low latency and 100% uptime, delivering a transformative customer experience. Experience unparalleled performance and agility with Polarin™, and empower your digital infrastructure for the future.

About Lightstorm

Lightstorm is building infrastructure for hyperscale networking in South Asia and Southeast Asia to accelerate the region's growth and spur innovation in the digital economy. It is building a first-of-its-kind utility-grade resilient fiber network, SmartNet, in several countries in the region. A trusted partner of several Fortune 500 companies, Lightstorm is creating a robust foundation of digital infrastructure to create new sources of value and differentiation for businesses.

For more information, visit https://www.lightstorm.net/. You can also connect with Lightstorm’s experts on LinkedIn.

91mobiles Partners with ImageKit.io To Cut Its Bandwidth Cost

With its integration with ImageKit, 91mobiles is saving 3.5 TB of bandwidth monthly

ImageKit helps in super-fast delivery of high-resolution images for the 91mobiles’ users

Helps to remove the brand’s dependency on multiple in-house software for image resizing & optimization

India, 26th July 2021: ImageKit, a global image Content Delivery Network (CDN) for real-time image optimization, resizing, and image upload has partnered with one of the largest gadget research websites in India 91mobiles to help them to cut its bandwidth cost and super-fast delivery of the high-resolution gadget images to its users.

91mobiles.com publishes fresh content related to mobile devices, other gadgets, latest news, comparisons, reviews of new products including rich visuals, every day. With 15 million monthly visitors, 91mobiles secures its spot in the top 250 websites in India. Hence, it was important for 91mobiles to include high-quality images of the gadgets to provide an excellent browsing experience to its visitors and to improve its website’s page load size.

To achieve all these milestones, 91mobiles was looking for an easy-to-implement solution and to optimize its website images across all platforms such as mobile devices or desktops. With the help of real-time image optimization solutions, the strategic association with Imagekit.io has helped 91mobiles in improving the page load speed of the website and simplifying its image delivery workflow.

Commenting on its association with Imagekit.io, Bharanidharan Viswanathan, CEO, 91mobile.com said, “Effortlessly switched from our in-house image resizing solution to ImageKit. It helped make our web pages load faster on different devices and simplified our image workflow. It also helped us reduce infrastructure cost”.

“ImageKit was the perfect solution for 91mobiles as we offer real-time image optimization, URL-based transformations, and image resizing with minimal changes in the company’s existing infrastructure. It took only 10 minutes for 91mobiles to integrate their website with ImageKit. The process was very smooth and easy as expected by 91mobiles”, said Rahul Nanwani, CEO & Co-Founder of ImageKit.io.

Before using ImageKit, the total bandwidth used to deliver content was 12 TB for 91mobiles. But, after the real-time image resizing and optimization provided by ImageKit, 91mobiles significantly saved 3.5 TB of bandwidth, thus improving the overall website performance, and providing a better and faster browsing experience to its users. ImageKit has simplified the image workflow of 91mobiles, and helped them in managing and resizing their website images across all platforms.

About Imagekit

Established in Oct 2016 by Rahul Nanwani, Manu Chaudhary and Somesh Khatkar, ImageKit.io is a complete image optimisation and management solutions to deliver high-quality visuals faster. The global image Content Delivery Network (CDN) aims to help companies and developers implement image optimization and real-time manipulations in their web applications without worrying about scale and investing time in R&D.

Over 500 companies and 30000 developers across 50+ countries are using ImageKit.io to improve their web performance. Many small, medium & big e-commerce, travel, and news & media sites like Noon, TravelOka, Big Basket Nykaa, TimesNow, Standard News, etc. are also relying on the solution for running their business.

CDNetworks Releases State of the Web Security for H1 2020: Web Application Attacks Boosted Over 800%

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. , Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- CDNetworks , the leading CDN and cloud security provider, has released State of the Web Security for H1 2020 (the Report). The Report states that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), Web application, bot, and other attacks have surged exponentially compared to the first half of 2019. In particular, attacks on web applications rose by 800%. These alarming statistics show that enterprises are experiencing challenging times in their attempts to defend against cyber-attacks and protect their online assets.

The Report goes on to say that hackers are extremely sensitive to industry transformation. For this reason, the challenges of the global pandemic are leading hackers to move attacks from less visited sites such as those related to hospitality, transportation, and other travel-related businesses and redirect their attention to sites that are profiting under Covid-19 such as media, public services, and education. E-government and digital public service systems are also magnets to hackers due to the sensitive and valuable information these systems hold. The Report contends that attacks against public sectors will continue with increasing virulence.

According to the Report, all types of attacks continued to increase. Consider that:

DDoS attack incidents saw a 147.63% year-on-year growth.

On average, 660 bot attack incidents were blocked every second, a number that is nearly doubled from last year.

Over 4.2 billion web application attacks were blocked in H1, a figure that is 8 times higher than the same period in 2019.

It is also worth noting that web application attacks in the public sector surpassed attacks in retail venues, making the public sector the single most attacked industry during this period. In fact, over 1 billion of the web attacks were targeted toward the public sector, which accounts for 26% of total attacks. Equally disturbing is the fact that with artificial intelligence (AI) becoming a vital part of cybersecurity, hackers are now using machine learning to detect and crack vulnerabilities in networks and systems.

The Report makes it crystal clear that attacks are rising in all vectors and types year over year. As new web application methodologies, from network security to cloud security, expose new attack surfaces, the boundary of security protection continues to expand with them. As a result, today's APIs, micro-services, and serverless functions are all vulnerable to malformed requests, bot traffic, and DDoS attacks at both network and application layers. Moreover, the evolution of 5G networks, edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things is rapidly forcing conventional security into the dustbin. In its place, software-defined security is emerging as a significant trend in the development of network security.

Enterprises that have an online presence and care about compliance, user privacy, security, and online availability can no longer enjoy the luxury of cherry-picking their security services because conventional security devices and strategies are becoming inadequate for handling today's challenges. Rather, they must act immediately to adopt a comprehensive website security suite that includes a web application firewall (WAF), bot management solution , and  DDoS protection .

Intelligent confrontation will be the new battlefield for cloud security in the near future. To minimize your exposure window, the time has come to fundamentally rethink strategy and embrace a layered defense to gain a tactical edge and achieve superiority on the battlefield in both conventional conflicts and asymmetric cyber-warfare.

About CDNetworks

CDNetworks is a leading global Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider with fully integrated cloud and edge solutions offering unparalleled speed, security, and reliability for prompt delivery of data and web content. The company ensures a fast and secure web experience for any devices, anywhere. For more information about our cloud security solutions: https://www.cdnetworks.com/cloud-security/ .

VPS vs CDN - What's the Difference?

When you are building your website, you are building something for yourself, but you are hoping that other people benefit from it. In order for others to benefit from your website, they need to be able to quickly access the information that you are trying to transmit. The ability to accomplish this will depend greatly on the hosting service that you use.

A common question for those new to hosting and website design is, what is better? Using a CDN or a VPS? First, we need to understand what each of these tools are and how they work.

What is a CDN?

On average only a small percentage of websites utilizes CDNs to provide faster and more effective loading times. Content delivery networks offer a great way for you to improve server response times. They do this by making it possible for you to deliver your static content, such as videos, JavaScript, images, and CSS, from a location that is closest to the individual who is visiting your site.

Content delivery networks are designed primarily for larger websites that have a lot of information. However, they can be used on any website that needs a boost. E-commerce stores have found CDNs to be especially beneficial, owing to the fact that many of their customers are visiting from around the world. A CDN makes it possible for these individuals to purchase items from a store located on the other side of the planet and still get response times that are similar to what they would get if the source site was local.



A CDN is a collection of global servers that are located at strategic points around the world. They are responsible for delivering a website's content to its users. Some people think that if they have a VPS, a CDN would be of no benefit to them. What they are failing to understand is that although a VPS is going to give them a powerful hosting platform, it cannot overcome the issue of distance. The server location is a huge factor in determining the experience that your users have.

Even if you have a VPS or dedicated server but your server is located in the United States, a visitor from India is going to experience lag. However, if the CDN server is located in India, your visitor is going to have a smoother and lag-free experience.

Even optimizing your CDN for in country usage can be optimal. A study by hosting researcher Nathan Finch explained in a recent Smashing Magazine interview that if users optimized an Australian-based CDN over a local host loading time increases of over 31% could be obtained.

Regardless of if you use a free hosting service, something that we don’t recommend, or if you are using an expensive dedicated hosting service, a CDN is going to help you. A CDN is going to reduce disc space and minimize bandwidth usage. Most CDNs reduce loading times on average by 17%.  Reducing resource usage is beneficial because on most platforms the amount of resources allocated to your site are limited. A CDN is going to help you even if you get an unexpected jump in traffic. Those surges do not force you to exceed the resource limit.

What Is a VPS?

VPS stands for virtual private server. Your server uses virtualization technology to split a physical server in to a number of virtual servers. In other words, the server is one physical piece of hardware, but thanks to the software installed on it, it is able to function like separate servers. The term "private" refers to the fact that the server is reserved for you. This makes it very different from shared hosting where you are sharing RAM, bandwidth, CPU, and other resources with others.

The web hosting provider that you use will install a virtual layer over the operating system of the server. This makes it possible for each user to install their own operating system and their own software. A virtual private server separates your virtual server from the other virtual servers on the same hardware at the operating system level, making the separation complete.

Virtual private server hosting is a few steps above shared hosting, but it is not as good as dedicated hosting. With dedicated hosting, the server is entirely yours. With virtual private hosting, there will be other people on the server. However, your website is the only domain that is allocated the resources on your virtual private server. What is nice about a VPS is that it is affordable. It gives you bang for your buck.

Why should you consider using a VPS? One reason is that you are concerned about security. If you need hosting that has advanced monitoring capabilities as well as more space for backups, then this is the right option for you. If you start to experience a spike in traffic, this may be the right option for you. If you feel that your website is constantly running slow, this could be the result of your shared hosting not having sufficient RAM to accommodate the increased size of your site. A VPS will allow you to scale your website without having to worry about low resources or slow load times.

Individuals who have an online store have seen the benefit of upgrading their hosting plan. With a VPS, you have a secured and dedicated virtual server, which makes it more likely that you are going to pass a PCI compliance test. A VPS may be right for you if you need to install custom software in order to get the most out of your website.

CDN Versus VPS

Really, the question is not whether or not you need a CDN or a VPS. The truth is that both platforms can work together to produce improved user experience for those visiting your site. A VPS is going to give you the resources you need to customize your site, expand your site, and make it readily available to all, especially those who are near to you. A CDN is going to take some of the load off of the VPS by allowing visitors in other parts of the world to access your site from a remote location closer to them as opposed to putting strain on your server.

Are you currently using a CDN or a VPS or a combination of both? Tell us about your experiences in the comments section below.