Apple's content delivery network is starting to push OS X updates, and reportedly has multiple terabits per second of capacity.…
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Are you ready for 4K TV? Akamai shares which countries are good to go.
Every quarter Akamai tracks the trends in broadband -- from speeds to IPv6 readiness and security threats. This year the percentage of people who have speeds greater than 10 Mbps hit 20 percent for the first time.…
Read MoreAkamai signs deal with OpenDNS to make the web faster
Akamai's job is to speed up the web, but as more companies use alternative DNS services, that can be difficult. So it's signed a deal with OpenDNS to get content to people faster.…
Read MoreThe perks and pitfalls of partnering; the week in cloud
Traditional vendor alliances are under stress (to say the least) but a few partnerships bucked the trend this week in cloud.…
Read MoreOpenNebula appears in rude health as its global community gathers for the first time
The cloud stack may lack an OpenStack-style marketing push, but its first global conference in Berlin this week has been full of stories of successful, interesting deployments by the likes of Akamai, Fermilab and the Santander Group.…
Read MoreVideo isn’t breaking the internet: The industry giants are
Video isn't breaking the web, the way that the web's biggest players are trying to optimize their costs at the expense of the best consumer experience is.…
Read MoreCedexis adds prettier — and more insightful — pictures to its cloud watching service
If you want to drill down into how your web site is performing based on user device, ISP, geography, or any combination of those things, Cedexis has a service for you.…
Read MoreAkamai lands FedRAMP certification to ease its entry into government cloud work
CDN leader Akamai claims its FedRAMP prize with the blessing of not one but three government agencies.…
Read MoreBitcoin exchange Mt.Gox reveals technical upgrades to boost performance
Mt.Gox, which is still the biggest Bitcoin exchange by trading volume, is now self-hosting and using Akamai's content delivery network -- but lengthy deposit and withdrawal times remain a problem.…
Read MoreEdgeCast gets $54M in funding because CDNs are always hot
CDN provider EdgeCast has raised $54 million in debt and equity to help it add new products and sales staff. The company is profitable despite the competitive nature of the content delivery market.…
Read MorePeering pressure: The secret battle to control the future of the internet
The latest fight between ISPs and over-the-top providers is taking place deep in the network, away from the eyes of regulators and consumers. Welcome to the world of peering fights.…
Read MoreAs Internet gets faster, Hong Kong & South Korea lead the broadband speed derby
The broadband speeds across the planet are going up, even as more and more people are connecting to the Internet from their mobile devices, according to Akamai State of the Internet Report.…
Read MoreWatch out, big CDNs: OnApp and its federation are coming for your resellers
OnApp now offers both real and virtual service providers a CDN business-in-a-box. And this is just the start: expect the same with storage and compute later this year.…
Read MoreScoop: Deutsche Telekom dives into multi-cloud management with NetOptimize
The German telco is preparing twin services called NetAnalyze and NetOptimize, which are geared towards companies that want to ensure CDN redundancy while optimizing performance-to-cost ratios.…
Read MoreOnApp launches CDN.net, tapping spare capacity of federated service providers
The federated cloud outfit has begun selling directly to users, starting with flexible, pay-per-use content delivery network services. It's a big step for OnApp and the hundreds of service providers in its network.…
Read MoreWho’s the biggest cloud of all? The numbers are in
Synergy Research ranked the top Iaas, PaaS and CDN providers by revenue for the fourth quarter. Some of the findings might surprise you.…
Read MoreGartner: Public cloud services to hit $131B by 2017
New Gartner predictions hold that the U.S. will remain number 1 in overall public cloud services deployment -- by a wide margin -- into 2016.…
Read MoreCedexis Fusion gathers system, cloud data to speed content delivery
Cedexis Radar gives an outside-in look at cloud performance, and now Fusion -- which works with New Relic and AppDynamics -- can provide an inside-out view of what's happening in applications and servers.…
Read MoreRadware buys Strangeloop to address need for speed
As more people tap into graphics-rich applications using wireless connections, they don't want to wait. That's why Radware wants Strangeloops.…
Read MoreOnApp to add compute to its expanding federated cloud portfolio
A couple of years ago, OnApp was all about helping service providers build their own public clouds. With more than 500 customers now under its belt, it's drawing on that network in increasingly clever ways.…
Read MoreState of the Internet: The broadband future is faster, but still unevenly distributed
Akamai, the content delivery network, has once again issued its assessment of web traffic based on the requests hitting its servers. The resulting survey shows the world's broadband getting faster.…
Read MoreAkamai returns to roots, taps founder as new CEO
Akamai's 8-month search for a new CEO didn't take it too far: It tapped co-founder and chief scientist Tom Leighton to succeed Paul Sagan, who announced his intention to leave last April. Now Sagan will cede the CEO slot on January 1.…
Read MoreWhen an HP cloud is not an HP cloud (and whether it matters)
Hewlett-Packard's long-promised cloud builds on an OpenStack foundation as well as Akamai, and ActiveState technologies. Should it matter that this IT giant is relying on IT from other companies?…
Read MoreDevops and donors: How the Obama campaign built its fundraising platform
The web has thoroughly infiltrated the political process, much like TV did in the 1960s. A series of posts on how the Obama team managed to analyze data, format its emails and now, build a fundraising API are showing how much web savvy and infrastructure matters.…
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