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Super Bowl Web Traffic Blitzes Advertisers

February 07, 2013 02:34 PM

Super Bowl Web traffic crushed sites from Coca-Cola, Doritos and other brands that blended interactive marketing with televised commercials. Online statistics show that site design proved just as important as network capacity.

Browsing Like It's 1990

October 15, 2012 11:49 AM

Mobile computing has to rely on old tricks to keep up with websites built for screaming-fast home and office broadband.

Akamai and Riverbed's Cure for Pokey SaaS Apps

May 14, 2012 01:42 PM

Combining Riverbed caching and Akamai's worldwide content delivery network yields a powerful boost for selected SaaS apps.

WAN Optimization Helps Networks 'Evolve'

April 13, 2012 09:00 AM

Networks are asked to do a lot these days--from moving video and voice to connecting mobile devices to delivering applications through a browser--but the basic architecture of a WAN hasn’t changed much over time, says analyst Zeus Kerravala. Enter WAN optimization, whose goal is to improve performance to deliver apps from the cloud that look as good and perform as if they were natively installed on the endpoint device.

Akamai Boosts Web, Mobile App Performance

March 21, 2012 09:00 AM

Akamai is adding two new products to its Terra Enterprise Solutions portfolio to use the cloud to improve IT performance in a number of areas, including application delivery, video streaming, security, Web site acceleration and more. On a Webcast Tuesday, Akamai executives introduced a new product that dramatically improves Web application performance and another that lets applications and Web sites open on mobile devices as quickly as they do on desktop computers.

Start-up Aryaka Launches Cloud-Based Application Acceleration And WAN Optimization Service

September 23, 2010 09:16 AM

Coming out of stealth mode this week, Aryaka Networks has launched an application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that runs in the cloud. The Aryaka platform is designed to be an alternative to hardware and software-based network optimization solutions, such as those offered by Akamai, Blue Coat, Citrix, Cisco, Riverbed, Blue Coat and others. The company characterizes their service as "Riverbed meets Akamai."

Census Mulls Counting On The Cloud

January 22, 2010 04:00 PM

As it rapidly readies itself to count everyone in the country, the U.S. Census Bureau has tentatively begun tapping cloud computing to reduce the cost and accelerate delivery of its services to its employees and the public. Though census planning is a 10-year effort, the actual census takes place over only a few months. The Census Bureau is in the early stages of hiring and fingerprinting some 1.4 million temporary workers, establishing 500 temporary census offices, and leveraging 170,000 partners -- from Home Depot to small churches -- that will become local voices of census evangelism.

Akamai Introduces Managed Internet Service for Delivery of Virtualized Applications and Desktops

September 21, 2009 08:51 AM

Akamai IP Application Accelerator solution now enables cost-efficient, 'anywhere, anytime' access to virtual desktop infrastructure

Akamai Launches Internet News Tracking Index

August 18, 2005 03:52 PM

Akamai, a significant behind-the-scenes provider of Internet technology, said Thursday that it will begin tracking consumption of news being delivered by major news organizations.