WALTHAM, MASS. - InfoLibria apparently has laid off all of its staff and closed its doors, the latest caching firm to succumb to a worsening market.
The company, which sold hardware and software for content delivery networks and streaming media, ended operations this week, according to people familiar with the situation. Calls to InfoLibria went unreturned.
"I know the vast majority of their business was in the service provider market. They're yet another casualty of the fall-off in service provider spending," says Lucinda Borovick, an analyst with IDC.
Caching vendors have had a hard time of it during the past 18 months or so as they've attempted to transition from selling to service providers to gaining enterprise customers. Earlier this year, Inktomi shed its caching business and CacheFlow recently announced it was changing its name to Blue Coat Systems in order to focus on being a security gateway company.
Today, analysts say the companies making the most headway in the enterprise content delivery networking market are Cisco and Network Appliance, two tough competitors to face, especially for a small hardware company such as InfoLibria.
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