General Electric is moving 9,000 applications to the cloud over the next three years and cutting back on the data center count from 30 to single digits. Disney has 500 projects in the cloud including customer facing applications, development, QA,
Since the introduction of AWS Lambda in 2014, serverless computing has emerged as a way to decrease the cost and time needed for development on cloud services. Serverless computing allows developers to write code that is triggered by events and
Three years ago, when we first started, it took us a few months to figure out what would become the next big market for CDNs. After researching and publishing research on various business models, we figured that Edge Security would
Larry Ellison used his recent keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco as an opportunity to fire a shot across Amazon’s bow. He cited benchmark test results showing that Oracle’s DBaas performed 105 times faster for analytics workloads
The last few days have been really interesting watching Amazon get all this love from the media, investors and practically the whole world. The latest one to fall in love is Mr. Morgan Stanley himself, smitten by stunning beauty of
Google is in the wireless business, Amazon in the semiconductor business, and Akamai in the Cyber Security business. What is the difference between the three? Google and Amazon have ventured outside of their comfort zone, investing into new sectors of
When Amazon came out with CloudFront, many in CDN industry were nervous, including Akamai. It was the unknown that we feared, because CloudFront brought a whole new low-cost structure into the picture. The impact was immediate, and pricing for CDN
The cloud price wars continue between Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Recently, Google dropped their prices by a whopping 10% from $.07/hour to $.063/hour for the n1-standard-1 US configuration. Amazon and Microsoft will follow suit. In two weeks, one of the
Today, the likelihood of IBM acquiring Akamai has increased from 10% to 30%, in my opinion. IBM has been an incredibly busy-bee the last two months, thanks to Bezos & Company. In February 2013, IBM lost a $600M CIA Contract
Akamai, the largest CDN on the planet, never envisioned a bookstore encroaching on its turf. Then again, neither did HP, IBM, EMC, Oracle or Dell. Amazon dominates the markets for cloud computing and cloud storage. It’s trying to do the
