Making the Edge Come Alive

In April 2019, Netflix viewers streamed 164 million hours of on-demand content per day. Fast forward a year. In April 2020, Twitch streamed 55 million hours per day. The vast majority of that was live.
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Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives to Support Your Cloud Journey

61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year.
93% have a multi-cloud strategy.1
This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and your costs.
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You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports … the list goes on and on in our ever more connected lives. From direct user interaction on … Continue reading You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

Computing at the Edge

Welcome to the Akamai October 2020 Update – a week of product updates, new features, and innovations. We’ll be highlighting a different area of our portfolio each day this week. In today’s post, we look at our enhanced edge computing capabilities and how they help developers more effectively and rapidly improve customer experiences on the Akamai platform. Continue reading Computing at the Edge

You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

Locality matters for most things in life: weather, health care, shopping, product reviews, dinner reservations, social networking, data privacy, news, sports … the list goes on and on in our ever more connected lives. From direct user interaction on your flagship website or app to IoT device data collection and transformation, where your target audience is and where they are going is essential to providing the experience they need, want, and deserve. This experience needs to honor the privacy of the user, ensure the integrity and safe handling of personal data, and provide an accurate localized view of your key content — all while being highly performant, available, and secure. Continue reading You Are Here: Giving Your Users the Local Experience They Deserve

Akamai: Supporting Development at the Edge

The pressures on application and web development teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences have never been greater than they are at this time. With consumer expectations growing, the ability of developers to deliver fresh, leading-edge digital experiences confidently and at high velocity is at a premium. Continue reading Akamai: Supporting Development at the Edge