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Azure evangelist tackles cloud doubts
Insight newsmaker Microsoft's Mark Taylor talks about issues ranging from risk and resilience to private clouds and interoperability.
Tags: Business applications, Cloud computing, Service level management, Cloud, Akamai Technologies Inc., Database, Azure, SLA, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
The digital Olympics: beyond the TV
News Players in the online ecosystem are conspiring to get viewers to abandon their TVs for the Olympics by offering more comprehensive coverage of the event.
Tags: Video, Bandwidth, 3G (Third Generation), Starhub, Event, Mobile, TV, India, Akamai Technologies Inc., Live Streaming
Tata targets high-end network services
News Tata Comms touts slew of varied investments in Asia-Pacific, in effort to beat competition from operators and content-delivery service providers.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Data centers, network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Cooper, Singapore, content delivery, managed services
China and U.S. lead in Internet attacks
News A new study from Akamai shows that more than 30 percent of all Internet attacks originate from China and the United States.
Tags: Network security, Web sites, Data security, PC security, Security Management, India, Akamai Technologies Inc., Attack, Internet Attack, Mbps
Three APAC countries have fastest broadband
News Akamai report highlights South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong's connection speeds, and notes origins of online attacks spreading to many more countries.
Tags: Bandwidth, Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Spam and phishing, Anti Phishing Work Group, Connection Speed, Banking, Akamai Technologies Inc., Attack Traffic, malicious software
News sites stay up during Jackson memorial
News News sites manage to stay up during Michael Jackson's memorial service, which brought in record numbers of traffic to both written content and streaming video.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Twitter, CBS Corp., Site, Asia, News Site, Akamai Technologies Inc., Streaming Video, Video
Can the Internet handle big breaking news?
News Reporters Tom Krazit and Declan McCullagh debate whether the tendency of Web sites to stagger under high demand can be avoided or isn't really something to worry about.
Tags: Domain names, Mobile platforms/communications, Web services, Web servers, Crisis communications, CNN, Google Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., micropayment, Crisis communications
Adobe open sources Flash platforms
News Company on Tuesday makes two of its Flash player platforms open source, but its core technologies remain proprietary.
Tags: Business applications, Multimedia, Open source, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Media, Akamai Technologies Inc., Web Application, Microsoft .NET, Mono
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
Dell racks up Microsoft as data center customer
News After finding itself on the losing end of a number of deals, Dell creates a special unit aimed at getting its gear inside the world's largest data centers.
Tags: Data centers, Server platforms, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Environment, Server, I/O, Baidu.com Inc., Facebook
Speedy Web services?
Insight The bulk of the Web acceleration marketplace in the e-commerce space focused on two approaches: speeding up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) sessions and accelerating the delivery of static content (e.g., image files of merchandise). But as e-commerce shifted from "the" killer Web application to just one of many features of today’s Web experience, the issue of accelerating commerce sites lost a bit of its panache.
Akamai, Softbank to sell fast Web service in Japan
News Akamai Technologies Inc, whose service speeds information over the Internet, said it formed a joint venture with Japanese Internet investor Softbank Corp to sell the service in Japan.
Mirror Image invests US$4.4m in S'pore 
News US-based Mirror Image Internet Inc has invested S$8 million (US$4.4 million) to establish its Asia Pacific headquarters here.
Mirror Image invests US$4.4m in S'pore
News US-based Mirror Image Internet Inc has invested S$8 million (US$4.4 million) to establish its Asia Pacific headquarters here.
