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- Microsoft puts more Azure cloud plumbing in place
- Microsoft is continuing to lay the groundwork for the commercial version of its Azure cloud environement, rolling out a new content delivery network CDN capability, as well as the November update to its Azure developer services. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Is Cisco ready to pounce on the CDN market?
- Cisco may be pondering a move into the content delivery network market. According to a report in the Business of Online Video, it appears that Cisco has been acquiring colocation space at third party data centers for a content delivery network CDN. Cisco has its own CDN,...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching
- Amazon and Microsoft, two of the leaders in the evolving cloud-services space, are offering customers a number of wares that -- at least on the surface -- sound similar. But in the area of caching, the paths of the two providers are diverging. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Content Delivery, Velocity, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., CloudFront, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
- Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- A Transport Layer for Live Streaming in a Content Delivery Network
- Streaming media on the internet has experienced rapid growth over the last few years and will continue to increase in importance as broadband technologies and authoring tools continue to improve. As the internet becomes an increasingly popular alternative to traditional communications media, internet streaming will become a significant component of...
- Tags: Content Provider, Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Akamai Technologies Inc., Streaming Media, Live Streaming, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- 'Desktop as a service' coming soon to a PC near you
- Desktop virtualization as a service has gotten a big boost with Desktone Inc.'s announcement today of $17 million in venture capital funds that will allow the company to finance global sales, marketing, and development. Desktone, a Chelmsford, Mass., startup offers what it says is the industry's first unified virtual desktop...
- Tags: Web Technology, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, SOA, SaaS, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, management, ITIL, IT Management, IT Service Management, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, content delivery network, Akamai
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Akamai provides new visibility into Internet comings and goings
- The browsing public can now get a free, real-time peek into the operating statistics for Internet network traffic, as well as monitor attack traffic and latency snafus, thanks to Akamai Technologies, Inc.Akamai, which maintains a globally distributed platform to cache and accelerate online content, media and applications, this week launched...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Internet, content delivery network, Akamai
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Has the long-expected wave of cyber crime/warfare finally appeared?
- Reports in The Economist, New York Times, and PC World point to a stunning lurch in the sophistication and reach of recent nefarious online attacks. And the initial sniff test pulls up a whiff of state or large-scale organization sponsorship and support of these events.They may well be a bellwether...
- Tags: Akamai, content delivery network, Internet, Podcasts, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Sun plans developer-focused, on-demand application grid services
- Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new web application development and deployment.In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich...
- Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Mobile, Microsoft Live, Java, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, datacenters, convergence, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model
- Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...
- Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Internet, IDEs, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management, Amazon, Akamai
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Design of MPLS Content Delivery Networks
- Content Delivery Network CDN can be applied to improve effectiveness and robustness of Internet in an economical manner. This paper presents an optimization problem of replica server location of a CDN. Most of previous papers on CDNs focus on connectionless techniques. This paper assumes that CDN is located in MPLS...
- Tags: Algorithm, MPLS, Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network
- White papers 2007-03-13
- The VeriSign Intelligent CDN: A Managed Service Offering Secure, Highly Scalable Internet Rich Media Delivery at Lower Cost
- Many content providers use Content Delivery Networks CDNs, which are a collection of servers in distributed data centers, to make rich media available to online consumers. Although a traditional CDN can help accelerate rich media delivery and mitigate the cost of infrastructure to the content provider, to fulfill the increasing...
- Tags: Internet, Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, VeriSign Inc., Rich Media
- White papers 2007-01-29
- End of the PC? No, iPhone is the end of the cell phone
- You can read a lot from what the Apple iPhone will do, and surely there are a lot of glaring deficiencies. What can we read of them?And what should we make of the iPhones company on stage at this weeks Macworld? Google, Yahoo, and Cingular. The best of the Internet,...
- Tags: Home, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Mobile, Apple, Microsoft, Windows, SaaS, Patents, content delivery network, Internet, convergence, Google, Google Inc., iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Parsing the future of DRM and Internet-based media delivery and monetization
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Akamai TechnologiesNow that media companies are exploring Web distribution models and using new technologies, a great deal is being discussed about who controls what when it comes to content. Digital rights management DRM has its advocates and detractors, but some type of...
- Tags: Home, Web Technology, Apple, SaaS, Intellectual Property, Akamai, content delivery network, Internet, Akamai Technologies Inc., digital-rights management, Web Distribution
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- Akamai CTO discusses the business-oriented platform approach to Internet media delivery
- Read a transcript of the podcast.The demands on the Internet have never been higher, with massive files of high-definition video, enterprise applications, online distribution of most software products, and the increasing uploading of "user-generated content" filling up the pipes.Yet the challenge to Internet delivery is not just in the packets...
- Tags: Internet, content delivery network, Akamai, SaaS, SOA, Enterprise Java, Interarbor Solutions, Vista, Podcasts, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Too soon to count podcasting out -- see it as a means, not an ends
- Some blogs are debating the long-term strength of podcasting, and they are focusing on the B2C potential, as usual, and overlooking the B2B potential which is just kicking in.One of the oft-overlooked benefits of podcasting in a B2B use is its power as an efficient publishing mechanism. Companies need to...
- Tags: podcasting, content delivery network, Podcasts
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Akamai adds to content platform arsenal with Nine Systems acquisition
- Akamai Technologies has ramped up beyond its internal development efforts to create a premier content delivery, management, and monetization platform with the stated merger today with Nine Systems Corp., a San Diego-based rich media production, publishing and distribution services and solutions provider.The inclusion of such a content management capability --...
- Tags: INTERNET, Mergers & Acquisitions, acquisition, Akamai Technologies Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Content Delivery Networks
- Content Delivery Networking CDN solutions allow enterprises and service providers to optimize the management, distribution, and delivery of static Web content and streaming audio/video content. While CDN services can take many forms, the overall goal of these services is to increase revenue opportunities, improve end-user performance, and drive cost savings....
- Tags: California Software, Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, California Software Labs
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Video Streaming: Concepts, Algorithms, and Systems
- Video has been an important media for communications and entertainment for many decades. This paper examines the challenges that make simultaneous delivery and playback, or streaming, of video difficult, and explores algorithms and systems that enable streaming of pre-encoded or live video over packet networks such as the Internet. This...
- Tags: Algorithm, Hewlett-Packard Co., Content Delivery Network, Streaming Video, Video, Web Site Development, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Digital Video, Engineering, Internet, Marketing, Personal Technology
- White papers 2002-09-18
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