Early last year, before any of us knew that so many people would be working remotely in 2020, we announced that Cloudflare Access, Cloudflare’s Zero Trust authentication solution, would begin protecting the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). To protect RDP, customers would deploy Argo Tunnel to create an encrypted connection between their RDP server and our…
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In the first quarter of 2020, within a matter of weeks, our way of life shifted. We’ve become reliant on online services more than ever. Employees that can are working from home, students of all ages and grades are taking classes online, and we’ve redefined what it means to stay connected. The more the public…
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Today we’re excited to announce Cloudflare’s Network Interconnection Partner Program, in support of our new CNI product. As ever more enterprises turn to Cloudflare to secure and accelerate their branch and core networks, the ability to connect privately and securely becomes increasingly important. Today’s announcement significantly increases the interconnection options for our customers, allowing them…
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Today we’re excited to announce Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI). CNI allows our customers to interconnect branch and HQ locations directly with Cloudflare wherever they are, bringing Cloudflare’s full suite of network functions to their physical network edge. Using CNI to interconnect provides security, reliability, and performance benefits vs. using the public Internet to connect to…
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This was an internship unlike any other. With a backdrop of a pandemic, protests, and a puppy that interrupted just about every Zoom meeting, it was also an internship that demonstrated Cloudflare’s leadership in giving students meaningful opportunities to explore their interests and contribute to the company’s mission: to help build a better Internet.For the…
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The world is waking up Protesting in the name of Black Lives Matter.Reading the book “White Fragility”.Watching the documentary “13th”.The world is waking up to the fight against racism and I couldn’t be happier!But let’s be clear: learning about anti-racism and being anti-racist are not the same things. Learning is a good first step and…
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This week we’ve talked about how Workers provides a step function improvement in the TTFB (time to first byte) of applications, by running lightweight isolates in over 200 cities around the world, free of cold starts. Today I’m going to talk about another metric, one that’s arguably even more important: TTFD, or time to first…
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Today we’re thrilled to announce general availability of Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) across our Layer 7 products as well as Spectrum and Magic Transit services. When BYOIP is configured, the Cloudflare edge will announce a customer’s own IP prefixes and the prefixes can be used with our Layer 7 services, Spectrum, or Magic Transit.…
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