Skytide Explained

Skytide
Type:	Private
Foundation:	2004
Location:	Santa Clara, CA, USA
Key People:	Michael O'Donnell, CEO Hamid Bahadori, CTO Patrick Hurley, VP of Marketing Roy Peterkofsky, VP of Product Management Jim Goldberger, VP of Sales
Products:	Skytide for CDNs Skytide for Video Players
Homepage:	www.skytide.com

Skytide is a reporting and analytics company whose software applications measure the performance of streaming video. Skytide is notable because its software is facilitating the trend by telecommunications service providers (TSPs) to operate their own content delivery networks (CDNs),^{[1] [2] [3]} in an effort to generate additional revenue from the increasing volume of video flowing over their broadband networks.^{[4] [5] [6]}
In December 2013, Skytide was acquired by Citrix Systems Inc.

Patents

Skytide holds U.S. patents 7,630,956 and 8,346,811, covering its proprietary method for analyzing and reporting extensible data from multiple sources in multiple formats.^[7]

Honors & Recognition

• Selected by Gartner as "Cool Vendor" in Communication Service Provider Infrastructure ^[8]
• Winner of the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Award ^[9]
• Winner of the 7th Annual eWeek Excellence Awards ^[10]
• Winner of 2007 Red Herring 100 award ^[11]

See also

• IPTV
• Over-the-top content (OTT)
• Internet television
• Connected TV
• Online video analytics
• Web log analysis software
• Web analytics

External links

• Skytide
• Granite Ventures
• "4 Keys to Telco CDN Success" white paper
• "6 Online Video Trends to Watch in 2013" white paper
• "Online Video Trends to Watch in 2014" white paper
• "How Telcos & ISPs Can Learn to Love OTT" white paper
• "What Every Service Provider Should Know About Federated CDNs" white paper
• "Improving CDN Capacity Utilization with Peak-Load Pricing" white paper

Notes and References

1. http://www.videonuze.com/blogs/?2010-05-27/BT-Wholesale-Readies-CDN-Launch-Relies-on-Skytide-for-Analytics/&id=2580 BT Wholesale Readies CDN Launch; Relies on Skytide for Analytics - May 27,2010
2. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2010/01/updated-list-of-carriers-telcos-and-pureplay-companies-in-the-cdn-business.html Updated List Of Carriers, Telcos and Pure-Play Companies In The CDN Business - January 21, 2010
3. Web site: Skytide riding wave of telco interest in CDNs - August 12, 2010 . November 17, 2010 . July 17, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717054640/http://www.tier1research.com/client/view.php?rid=63888 . dead .
4. http://v-net.tv/NewsDisplay.aspx?id=550 Broadband ready to become a serious TV platform - September 23, 2010
5. http://connectedplanetonline.com/residential_services/news/Cisco-VNI-Online-video-traffic-surpasses-P2P-file-sharing-1028/ Online video surpasses P2P file sharing - October 28, 2010
6. Web site: Online video: 1 billion users and growing; 57% of consumer online traffic by 2014 - June 6, 2010 . 2010-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140309041849/http://www.fierceonlinevideo.com/node/2587/print . 2014-03-09 . dead .
7. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,630,956.PN.&OS=PN/7,630,956&RS=PN/7,630,956 Skytide Patent - December 8, 2009
8. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47098655#.T5YBojLrrLA
9. http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Featured-News/The-Envelope-Please-The-2009-Streaming-Media-Readers-Choice-Award-Winners-65663.aspx The Envelope Please: The 2009 Streaming Media Readers' Choice Award Winners - November 18, 2009
10. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/The-7th-Annual-eWEEK-Excellence-Awards-The-Winners/1/ The 7th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards: The Winners - June 21, 2007
11. Web site: Skytide Selected as a Winner in Red Herring 100 Spring 2007 - May 3 2007 . 2010-11-17 . 2011-07-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716182857/http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/node/371040 . dead .