MetaCDN is a cloud-based content delivery network (CDN) delivered as an on-demand service, which harnesses widely available cloud storage networks such as Amazon S3 & CloudFront, Windows Azure, Rackspace Cloud Files and Nirvanix SDN. MetaCDN’s on-demand use of cloud storage capacity is unique and creates critical competitive advantages. MetaCDN reduces congestion & downtime and improve access speeds for many types of digital content delivered nationally and globally from websites. MetaCDN achieve this by seamlessly and intelligently replicating content in numerous locations around the world.

There is a short term opportunity for suitable organisations to take advantage of a free 2 month trial of the MetaCDN service. Organisations interested in exploring the benefits that MetaCDN can provide are invited to go to http://www.metacdn.com for more information.

An article on MetaCDN has appeared in Computerworld AU, entitled “MetaCDN takes content delivery networks into the cloud”:

Have a read of the full article here.

Our article on MetaCDN has been accepted and approved for publication for a Special Issue on “Next Generation Content Networks” for the  Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA). It is available here and full details are listed on the Publications page. If you are interesting in the MetaCDN project this paper is the definative paper to read and cite.

Thanks goes to Kenneth Chiu (SUNY Binghamton), Alexandre di Costanzo, SungJin Choi, Suraj Pandey (University of Melbourne), Sriram Krishnan (San Diego Supercomputing Centre), and Hyunsik Choi (Korea University) for their assistance with providing client nodes to run the experiments that are included in this paper.

Thank-you to all the attendees of my CloudSlam 2009 talk – there were some great questions and comments. My CloudSlam 2009 presentation is now available via the Presentations page. It is an updated version of the Mashups 2008 talk.