Cotendo Named AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner
Cotendo Selected as Internet Infrastructure Technology Innovator for 2009
San Carlos, CA – July 16, 2009 – Cotendo, a content delivery network and innovator of software-focused CDN technologies, today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 List. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. Cotendo was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.
“This recognition by the industry experts at AlwaysOn validates the leadership of our patent-pending software technology in the content delivery network arena,” said Ronni Zehavi, Cotendo’s CEO. “The AlwaysOn Global 250 award reflects the success that our suite of CDN applications has achieved in addressing the needs of Internet content providers for high performance, application-level flexibility, and real-time control in the ‘whole site’ delivery of both static and dynamic assets.”
Cotendo and the other AlwaysOn Global 250 Winners winners will be recognized at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford, taking place at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, on July 28-30. This two-and-a-half day executive conference is co-presented by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and will highlight the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries.
“It’s no secret that technology and innovation are vital to bringing our country out of economic recession,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies on this year’s list have not only created innovative technologies that solve real business problems, but have stimulated economic growth through the generation of new jobs. I congratulate every winner selected for this year's award and wish them all tremendous success in the future.”
The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.
A full list of all the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32719
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About Cotendo
Cotendo is a site acceleration services provider and an innovator of software-focused site acceleration technologies. Cotendo's full suite of site acceleration services is addressing an important unmet need that Internet content and web application providers have for application-level flexibility and sophisticated management of performance and cost. Cotendo is led by experts in intelligent content management and content delivery networks. Founded in 2008, Cotendo is funded by Sequoia Capital and Benchmark Capital. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with R&D; based in Israel. For more information about Cotendo and its Site Acceleration Suite, visit www.cotendo.com.