Limelight Helps Sophos Scale to Meet Increasing Global Software Update Delivery Demands

TEMPE, Arizona and MUNICH, July 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Sophos leverages Limelight's Orchestrate ("Orchestrate") solution for Software and Device Manufacturers to publish security updates to millions of customers

Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW), a global leader in digital content delivery, today announced that Sophos has transitioned to the new Limelight Orchestrate™ Delivery and Storage platform to deliver security and identity protection updates every four hours to millions of customers around the world.

The solutions designed to protect organizations from security threats are frequently updated to protect increasingly complex networks and a wide range of types of devices. Sophos analysts monitor and research potential threats from around the globe as they happen and respond to new threats at all hours of the day, every day. They draw upon a multitude of data points to develop new security definitions in real-time. Keeping pace with downloading these security updates would be an impossible task without a CDN that is scalable, reliable and fast.

"We send out security updates to millions of customers around the world every four hours, every day," said Alastair Pooley, VP Data Centre Operations, Sophos.  "Limelight plays a critical role for us, seamlessly delivering 400-500 terabytes a month of software updates around the globe."  

"Limelight's Orchestrate solutions combine the services, architecture and infrastructure Sophos needs to move their software updates from the cloud to their customers, consistently, securely and reliably," said Robert Lento, CEO of Limelight Networks. "We've worked closely with Sophos to understand exactly how they wanted and needed to use our services, and executed a flawless migration from their previous vendor."

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