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Kif Leswing Jul 31, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Apple’s content delivery network is reportedly live and it’s huge

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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Apple, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 26, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

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.…

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Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 3, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Akamai 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Oct 13, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

The 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Meyer Sep 25, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

OpenNebula 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Sep 16, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Video 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.…

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Technology
Barb Darrow Sep 10, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cedexis 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Aug 27, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Akamai 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Meyer Aug 5, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bitcoin 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.…

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Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jul 18, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

EdgeCast 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Media, Technology, Video
Stacey Higginbotham Jun 19, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Peering 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.…

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Mobile, Technology
Om Malik Apr 22, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

As 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.…

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Technology
David Meyer Mar 22, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Watch 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Technology
David Meyer Mar 14, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Scoop: 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
David Meyer Mar 13, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

OnApp 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Mar 11, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Who’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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 28, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Gartner: 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 14, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Cedexis 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Feb 7, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Radware 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Meyer Feb 1, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

OnApp 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Jan 22, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

State 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.…

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Mobile, Technology
Barb Darrow Dec 16, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Akamai 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Barb Darrow Dec 7, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

When 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?…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Nov 28, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Devops 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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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology

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