by Lydia Leong | May 14, 2012 | Comments Off
For months, there have been an abundance of rumors that Amazon was intending to enter the dynamic site acceleration market; it was the logical next step for its CloudFront CDN. Today, Amazon released a set of features oriented towards dynamic content, described in blog posts from Amazon’s Jeff Barr and Werner Vogels. When CloudFront introduced [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, Amazon, CDN
by Lydia Leong | December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Akamai is acquiring Cotendo for a purchase price of $268 million, somewhat under the rumored $300 million that had been previously reported in the Israeli press. To judge from the stock price, the acquisition is being warmly received by investors (and for good reason). The acquisition only impacts the website delivery/acceleration portion of the CDN [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, news
by Lydia Leong | December 1, 2011 | Comments Off
Thus far, merger-watchers eyeing the rumored bidding for Cotendo seem to be asking: Why this high a valuation compared to the rest of the CDN industry? Who are the potential suitors and why? What if anything does Cotendo offer that other CDNs don’t? How do the various dynamic offerings in the market compare? Who else [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN
by Lydia Leong | August 23, 2011 | Comments Off
There’s one thing in particular that tends to make Akamai customers “sticky” — the amount the customer uses professional services. The more professional services a customer consumes from Akamai, the less likely it is they’ll ever switch CDNs. In short: The more of a pain it’s been for them to integrate with Akamai’s CDN (usually [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN
by Lydia Leong | May 25, 2011 | Comments Off
I am way behind on my news announcements, or I’d have posted on this earlier: Limelight has bought AcceloWeb. AcceloWeb is a front-end optimization software company (sometimes called Web content optimization). FEO technologies improve website / Web application performance, through optimizing the HTML/CSS/JavaScript/images on the page. I’ve blogged about this in the past, regarding Cotendo’s [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, LLNW
by Lydia Leong | May 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
Akamai and Riverbed have signed a significant partnership deal to jointly develop solutions that combine Internet acceleration with WAN optimization. The two companies will be incorporating each other’s technologies into their platforms; this is a deep partnership with significant joint engineering, and it is probably the most significant partnership that Akamai has done to date. [...]
by Lydia Leong | November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
How to tell when a CDN has arrived: Akamai sues them for patent infringement. The lawsuit that Akamai has filed against Cotendo alleges the violation of three patents. The most recent of the patents, 7,693,959, is dated April 2010, but it’s a continuation of several previous applications — its age is nicely demonstrated by things [...]
by Lydia Leong | November 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Dan Rayburn’s blg post about the Akamai/Netflix relationship seems to have set off something of a firestorm, and I’ve been deluged by inquiries from Gartner Invest clients about it. I do not want to add fuel to the fire by speculating on anything, and I have access to confidential information that prevents me from stating [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN
by Lydia Leong | November 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Those of you who are Gartner clients know that in the last year, my colleague Joe Skorupa and I have become excited about the emergence of software-based application acceleration via page optimization approaches, as exemplified by vendors like Aptimize and Strangeloop Networks. (Clients: See Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2010.) This approach to acceleration enhances [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, Google
by Lydia Leong | April 27, 2009 | Comments Off
In CDN news this past weekend, a judge has overturned the jury verdict in the Akamai vs. Limelight patent infringement case. Akamai has said it intends to appeal. The judge cited Muniauction v. Thomson Corp. as the precedent for a judgement of law, which basically says that if you have a method claim in a [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, LLNW
