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Company Overview



Name and Mission of the Company


- Name: Cloudflare, Inc.
- Mission: To help build a better Internet.

Founding Details


- Founded: 2009
- Founders: Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, Michelle Zatlyn

Key People


- Matthew Prince: Co-founder and CEO
- Michelle Zatlyn: Co-founder and President
- Lee Holloway: Co-founder

Headquarters


- Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Number of Employees


- Employees: No information is available

Revenue


- Revenue: No information is available

Known For


- Known For: Providing CDN (Content Delivery Network), DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain name server services.

Products



Product Offerings


Cloudflare offers a range of products organized into several categories:

Connectivity Cloud


- Description: Unified platform to help businesses work, deliver, and innovate everywhere.
- Key Features:
- IT and security visibility and control
- Improved security and resilience
- Accelerated application and network performance
- Cost and complexity reduction

SASE and SSE Services


- Description: Services to connect and secure employees, contractors, devices, networks, apps, and data.
- Key Features:
- Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
- Security Service Edge (SSE)

Application Services


- Description: Security, reliability, and performance enhancement for digital products and services.
- Key Features:
- DDoS protection
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Bot management solutions

Developer Services


- Description: Tools to build and deploy full-stack applications with integrated compute, storage, and networking.
- Key Features:
- Serverless compute
- Storage solutions
- Comprehensive networking

Recent Developments



Developments


Acquisitions


- Acquisition of BastionZero: Added Zero Trust infrastructure access to their SASE platform.

New Products


- Foundation DNS: Advanced authoritative DNS for enterprises.

New Features


- Zero Trust Workforce Implementations: Extended zero trust principles to workforce solutions, enhancing security posture.
- Unified Risk Posture Management: Introduced management solutions to handle risks across expanding attack surfaces.

Partnerships


- Booz Allen Hamilton Partnership: Joint effort to provide rapid attack mitigation for enterprises.

Recognitions and Reports



Industry Recognitions


- Gartner® Magic Quadrant™:
- Named in the Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE (2024).
- Mentioned in the Magic Quadrant for SSE for the second consecutive year.

Analyst Evaluations


- Forrester Wave™:
- Strong Performer in Bot Management Software, Q3 2024.

- IDC MarketScape:
- Leader in Zero Trust Network Access for enterprises.

Case Studies



Notable Clients


Porsche Informatik


- Use Case: Managed traffic for brand and dealer network, protected websites from the internet, automated cloud migration tasks.

Delivery Hero


- Use Case: Reduced complexity, enhanced global network performance, and secured international workforce and websites.

PhonePe


- Use Case: Protected over 33 million merchants and provided a low-latency customer experience to over 400 million registered users.




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