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- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn?
- Limelight Networks may have won a medal for its role behind the scenes to keep NBCOlympics.com humming, but the company is still dwarfed by its largest rival Akamai. The big question: Does Limelight have enough headroom to gain meaningful share from Akamai? Jason Perlow detailed how content...
- Tags: Patent, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Jason, Company, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the InternetWe agree about content providers...But in my fantasy world you would not necessarily need a DVR you could pay extra for a download and you could get a stream anywhere with net access.It didn't melt but I think it got hot. ntntRE:...
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, Corporate communications, digital video recorder, Olympic Games, Limelight Networks, video, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-17
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the 2008 Microsoft Technology Summit, where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for feedback...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Network, Internet Service Provider, Video, Akamai Technologies Inc., Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Corporate Communications, Data Centers, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Next Question: A Whole Lot of Traffic Shaping Going On, With Olympics Video?
- Next Question: A Whole Lot of Traffic Shaping Going On, With Olympics Video?Traffic Shaping is not the reasonTom:I suggest you review the material that Limelight Networks has put out regarding the Olympics streaming infrastructure.The reason why the Net has not melted is because the content is not on the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Data centers, INTERNET, Storage, Traffic Shaping, Olympics Video, Limelight Networks
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Follow the money
- Nick Carr asks who is making the big money in the Web 2.0 era of user-generated (or user-submitted if you are Google) content. Certainly not the users, and the Web sites monetizing the content aren't overflowing with riches. Try infrastructure companies like Limelight Networks, which provides content delivery network services...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Limelight Networks, YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
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- Microsoft is 5th most spam-friendly ISP
- Spammers are abusing Microsoft's online services at such an alarming rate that a non-profit spam fighting group now lists Microsoft as the world's 5th most spam-friendly ISP Internet Service Provider. The latest update of Spamhaus.org's list of the world's worst spam networks shows Microsoft at #5 because...
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- 10 answers to your questions about botnets
- Michael Kassner recently asked TechRepublic members to submit questions about botnets, promising to forward them to the experts at Arbor Networks. Dr. Jose Nazario volunteered to provide the following informative answers.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Tags: Arbor Networks, Question, Michael Kassner, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2008-11-21
- Video Is Not The Future of the Internet. It's the Present.
- Auto companies may be going out of business. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is shrinking dramatically, by the day. Consumer confidence is at a post-war low. But Internet traffic is unabated. Notably, it's led by consumers. And video. "We are living in unprecedented times,''...
- Tags: P2P, Traffic, Video, Consumer Traffic, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Diigo for education
- I posted several bookmarks via Diigo on Wednesday. Although I had planned to use delicious, I find the interface to be really kludgy, so I set about looking for another social bookmarking site. Although plenty of teachers in my district post lists of links on their blogs or...
- Tags: Education, Bookmark, Social Bookmarking, Teacher, Diigo, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm
- First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Commercial vendor of spyware under legal fire
- Just like every decent marketer out there, vendors of commercial malware tools are very good at positioning their tools. However, their pitches often contradict with themselves in a way that what's promoted as a Remote Administration Tool, has in fact built-in antivirus software evading capabilities, rootkit functionality and tutorials on...
- Tags: Malware, FTC, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!
- Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...
- Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- OS earns highest-ever gov't security rating. Does that make it "most secure?"
- I have to admit that I had never before heard of a certification called EAL6+ High Robustness until the folks at Green Hills Software reached out to tell me that they were about to get it for their operating system, formally called INTEGRITY 178B. EAL6+ High...
- Tags: Security, Certification, Operating System, EAL, Quality, Operating Systems, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
- Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Boingo to provide WiFi service on Washington State ferries
- Boingo Wireless provides WiFi services all over the world and I have used them on the past in Spain and London. They have been busy adding more wireless networks and today announced that they will be providing the services for the Washington State ferry system. About 1/4 of the employees...
- Tags: Ferry, Boingo Networks, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Conversation with Replicate Technologies
- Rich Miller, CEO, and Oren Teich, VP Product, both of Replicate Technologies spent a while providing an introduction to the company and an explanation of what they're doing. It was great catching up with both of them. Rich was the CTO of Univa, a company focused on bringing high performance...
- Tags: Oren, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who's buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Industry, SOA, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- 1,000-device personal networks in 2017?
- According to ICT Results in 'The Network of Everything,' wireless experts estimate that our personal networks will include about a thousand devices in 2017, including dozens of sensors checking our health and our home. This is why European researchers have launched in 2006 a networking project called 'MAGNET Beyond.' The...
- Tags: Researcher, Network, Bluetooth, Networking, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille, Device, Sensor
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
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