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- Distributing Trial Software Digitally Helps Discreet Stay on Top With Creative Customers
- Discreet products are used extensively in films such as Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, and The Last Samurai, as well as in video post-production, games, animation, multimedia, television programming, and advertising commercials. When Discreet launched a new version of its popular software, 3ds max 6, the marketing team knew...
- Tags: Software, Akamai Technologies Inc., Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies
- Tourism New Zealand Leverages Akamai to Deliver a New Era in Travel Planning
- Several factors contributed to a dramatic rise in international visitors to New Zealand's tourism Web site, operated by the country's tourism agency, Tourism New Zealand. In particular, the growing popularity of the PureNZ.com Web site placed major stress on the current fixed infrastructure, resulting in slow page downloads for end-users....
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Web Site Development, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing
- Case studies
- Cathay Pacific Airways Increases Online Bookings and Extranet Adoption, and Saves Over $1,000,000 Annually
- Cathay Pacific Airways is an award-winning, international airline based in Hong Kong that offers scheduled passenger and cargo services to destinations around the world, and carries almost one million passengers every month. The company's consumer, agent, and cargo Web sites offer a convenient and low-cost way of communicating with over...
- Tags: Agent, Extranet, Akamai Technologies Inc., Cathay Pacific Airways, Real Estate, Business Services, Business Structures, Business Operations, Finance
- Case studies
- Unicast Serves Big Ads - Without Building Big Infrastructure
- Unicast Communications specializes in delivering large creative files over the Internet so that its customer base of Fortune 100 advertisers can run television-quality creative online. As more and more companies looked to repurpose their offline video ads and incorporate them into online efforts, Unicast's ad serving traffic increased - significantly...
- Tags: Advertisement, Ad Serving, Akamai Technologies Inc., Unicast, Unicast Communications, Business Structures, Finance
- Case studies
- A Gold Medal Performance for NBCOlympics.com
- With exclusive U.S. rights to broadcast television coverage of the 2004 Olympics, NBC decided to take advantage of increases in broadband adoption to deliver real-time, interactive, and media-rich coverage of the Olympics on the www.nbcolympics.com site. NBC wanted to build a premier Olympic Web site with multimedia integration and exclusive...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Performance, Akamai Technologies Inc., On-demand Computing, IBS, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Utility Computing, It Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, It service Management
- Case studies
- FOX Sports Scores With More Traffic, More Revenues
- FOX Sports, a subsidiary of News Corporation, was founded in 1984 to provide sports news and entertainment to U.S. audiences. In 2001, the company realized the opportunity to generate business via its Web site and created the FOX Sports Interactive Media division to focus on delivering the ultimate online sports...
- Tags: Revenue, Akamai Technologies Inc., FOX Sports, Web Site Development, Advertising & Promotion, Web Technology, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Internet, Marketing, Finance
- Case studies
- Victoria's Secret Web Site Raises the Bar on Customer Experience With Content Delivery From Akamai and IBM
- In January 1999, Victoria's Secret aired its first-ever Super Bowl commercial, announcing the live Webcast of its Spring Fashion Show. The Victoria's Secret team recognized they needed to deliver an incredible user experience with improved traffic management and faster content distribution. Victoria's Secret went searching for partners with a proven...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Victoria's Secret, Web Site, Akamai Technologies Inc., IBM Corp., Victoria's Secret Web Site, Web Technology, Outsourcing, E-business/E-Commerce, Web Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet
- Case studies
- Sony Ericsson and Akamai Launch a New Age in Mobile Communications
- In 2001, Sony Corporation and Ericsson formed Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications to deliver accessible mobile multimedia communication solutions to customers worldwide. In efforts to build the Sony Ericsson brand and become the premiere provider of mobile multimedia communication devices, the company wanted to provide an exceptional online experience to its...
- Tags: Multimedia, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Mobile, Mobile Communication, Akamai Technologies Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies
- Redcats USA Delivers Superior Online Experience for E-commerce Success
- Redcats USA formerly Brylane is America's Specialty Catalog and E-Commerce Leader, with 10 catalogs and 12 e-commerce sites representing well-known brand names such as Chadwick's of Boston, Lerner Catalog, Jessica London, and Lane Bryant Catalog. To quickly and reliably serve all the images across its sites, Redcats USA had to...
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., E-business, Redcats USA, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Case studies
- ROI Analysis Reveals That eBags Converts 15% More Buyers With Akamai Services
- From diaper bags to evening bags, money clips to computer cases, eBags carries hundreds of brands of premium and popular bags. eBags knew they needed an image-rich site with quick loading pages and reliable site performance. They also knew that while building this supreme shopping experience, they had to keep...
- Tags: ROI, Akamai Technologies Inc., ROI Analysis, eBags, Productivity, Roi/Tco, Branding, Performance Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies
- Norman Achieves Rapid Growth in Unpredictable Security Software Market
- Norwegian-based Norman ASA provides an array of security solutions, including anti-virus, anti-spam and personal firewall software for banks, Internet service providers, PC vendors and other organizations. Norman needed to improve the performance and availability of its update web site to a global audience of customers. Akamai Electronic Software Delivery Akamai...
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., Norman, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Internet, Business Services, Firewalls, Viruses And Worms, Networking
- Case studies
- Logitech Implements Akamai EdgeComputing for Java to Extend Marketing-Driven, Promotional Contest
- Expecting to drive 100 times its regular traffic level to its site for a single day in December 2002, Logitech needed an infrastructure in place that could support a new contest application while scaling to meet the expected traffic surge. Utilizing Akamai EdgeComputing for Java, Logitech was able to extend...
- Tags: Logitech, Akamai Technologies Inc., Akamai EdgeComputing, Programming Languages, Java, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- Common Internet attack ports
- Internet powerhouse Akamai Technologies has released its first "State of the Internet" report. Drawing from data gathered across its global server network, it attempts to dissect trends such as attack traffic, broadband adoption, and relevant information. As noted in its executive summary, this inaugural report is based on data...
- Tags: Internet Attack, Akamai Technologies Inc., Internet, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- A surfeit of caches
- A cache is useful in theory. By storing a temporary copy of some page or image, the servers can deliver it faster to the client computer. But if you've ever been stuck trying to debug a problem related to caches, you quickly realize that computer science types have gone overboard...
- Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Server, Portal, Akamai Technologies Inc., Portals, Web Technology, Channel Management, Servers, Internet, Marketing, Hardware, Rex Baldazo
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Akamai Net Usage Index for Retail (zip)
- This Widget enables users to monitor the world's online retail consumption from their desktop, providing real-time insight into the trends of consumers online buying habits. Features: aggregate, real-time visitors per minute for a representative set of more than 200 global retail/e-commerce sites; e-commerce traffic levels by continent over a 24-hour...
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Software downloads 2006-05-11
- Okay, l'll play the game. What's happening to TR this morning???
- I open my computer do a few things like read and answer e-mails and then call up TR. Wonder of wonders, I'm already logged on but, wait for it, I can go everywhere except into forums. that will open only so far down as "Discussions" "Questions" etc. and then the...
- Tags: Akamai Technologies Inc., sleepin'dawg
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- Limiting internet bandwidth on wireless network
- We recently installed Road Runner on the home network. Needless to say the kids spend their time doing online games and downloading musiclegally and I have noticed that when they are downloading music my pages seem to load a lot slower. Is there a wa
- Tags: networking, hardware, software, windows, gridley@..., BitTorrent, Akamai Technologies Inc., bandwidth, network, router, wireless, wireless network, Internet, QoS
- Discussion threads 2006-11-16
- Net neutrality and politics don't mix
- [Update: 12:00 AM June 9, 2006] The amount of political rhetoric coming from the Net neutrality crowd is at a fever pitch. From MoveOn.org to SaveTheInternet.com practicing their brand of scare the public to a self-interest driven "do-no-evil" Google, the consistent message were getting is this: [More scare...
- Tags: Infrastructure, Networking, Technology policy, Net Neutrality, Internet, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- How to Improve J2EE Performance and Reliability
- To support growing numbers of Web-based applications and avoid the Internet bottlenecks inherent with "silo" serving, companies are increasingly utilizing a "distributed computing" model in an on-demand fashion. By locating computing resources close to the users requesting them, performance and reliability, as well as scale, are assured. Given the proliferation...
- Tags: On-demand, Akamai Technologies Inc., Internet, Performance Management, J2Ee, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-07-15
- Go Daddy ditches open source OS then donates $10k to open source project
- Where is this leading us?The Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP LAMP environment is one of, if not the, most prevalent configurations for Web sites. As a practical matter, when it comes to actually creating an environment for your Web site, can Microsoft's push for market share really impact your decision making? Do you think...
- Tags: Go Daddy, Microsoft Corp., Linux, open source, web hosting, chad perrin, Mark W. Kaelin, hardware, Akamai Technologies Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-04-20
