Comments on: Structure 09: Akamai's CEO Explains Why the Middle of the Net Is Such a Drag

By: Clouds and CDNs: a Match Made in Heaven? – GigaOM

Clouds and CDNs: a Match Made in Heaven? – GigaOM — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:35:53 +0000

[...] that are taking advantage of their Internet-delivery cohorts. CDN leader Akamai, especially, has inserted itself smack into the middle of the cloud computing ecosystem, to the benefit of the SaaS market. Through a partnership with SaaS-platform provider OpSource, for [...]

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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:52:05 +0000

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By: Brett Glass

Brett Glass — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:17:44 +0000

What this sales pitch for Akamai does not say is that it places its caches and application servers at large ISPs (usually cable companies and telcos) but not at small, competitive ones. This means that the company is actually harming competition by kicking these smaller and competitive providers — who already face higher bandwidth costs, smaller economies of scale, and anticompetitive tactics from the incumbents — when they’re down. It also means that rural Internet users, who tend to use smaller providers, get the short end of the stick: significantly worse performance. Our small ISP has approached Akamai many times and asked them to place a cache at our site, but they won’t even do it if we pay them. It just goes to show, I guess, that if you’re a “kingpin” in anything you tend to ally with other kingpins against the little guy and against the consumer.

By: O. Berkeley

O. Berkeley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:30:21 +0000

Carl Sagan was a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell, a world-class scientist, and not merely a “science writer.”

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:05:11 +0000

How is “10 years of history led us here.” a “Key Ingredients for What Is Cloud Computing?” It appears as though yet again, Sagan can’t help but talk about the history of Akamai rather than actually say something insightful to the industry. And I’m not sure how creating a “private tunnel” on the “public Internet” solves anything. You’re using the cause of the problem to fix the problem?

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