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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What exactly are some of those decisions? Would you give us examples of some of the more complex decisions that happen at the edges? Mike Afergan: Sure, take image manipulation, adapting an image. To be clear, it’s simple from a conceptual perspective. It’s easy to understand. Doing that at scale across a number
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: There are a variety of user experiences and architecture designs that are being stored and based on what device a request is coming in from, the right one is being served. You’re saying that the decision of which of those designs is going to be served and what performance level is being done
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take the situational complexity and performance topics. Could you talk about at what point is each of these problems being solved? Who is solving what part of this diversity? Is it the Web experience owner? What part of the problem is he solving? What part of the problem is an infrastructure vendor
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: On those two trends, from where you sit at Akamai, how does that affect what you offer and what your customers are looking for from you to support those trends? Mike Afergan: There are a lot of things that come from those trends, a lot of exciting things. I’d focus on three trends
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 1)
Those who read my blog regularly will recognize the company Akamai. I have featured it in several Technology Stocks posts as well as in an interview with Willie Tejada for my Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series and an interview with Tom Leighton for Entrepreneur Journeys. Since being founded in 1998, Akamai has been a
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: The 33% that you have moved to the cloud already, what is the organizing principle of that? What have you chosen to move as the early steps? What have you chosen not to move yet? Lee Congdon: A strong partnership with Salesforce.com; we’ve been using their technology for more than five years for sales automation.
Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Willie Tejada, Senior VP And GM Of The Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai (Part 8)
Sramana Mitra: All these trends, the video collaboration trend, the online video trend, all of these are massive scalability problems. I think if five billion Internet users start doing video collaboration and video on-demand on a continuous basis, it will choke the network. So, network scalability is a significant problem that needs to be looked at
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: AppRiver, Gulf Breeze, Florida
AppRiver — featured in this blog in 2009 — like Agiliance, finds itself once again on Inc. Magazine’s 2011 500|5000 list. Over the past two years, the company, which was founded in 2002 by CEO Michael Murdoch and CIO Joel Smith, has more than doubled its 2007 revenue of $11.4 million to $27.9 million, giving AppRiver a three-year
