Akamai

September 25, 2015

NETWORKING

iOS 9 – A Growth Hacking Opportunity Awaits

The Economics of Network Downtime Infonetics Research recently released a study that claims businesses (just in North America alone) lose as much as $100 million a year due to network downtime. Let us dissect that into numbers you and I can relate to. On average, businesses suffer from 14 (CA Techn…

May 15, 2015

NETWORKING

Secrets to Ensuring Application Performance at the Branch

Ensuring application experience at the branch is a daunting task. IT must look beyond traditional WAN challenges (like bandwidth, transport type, and speed) to applications experience. As time-to-market becomes a pillar of enterprise’s competitive advantages, application experience is key to ensurin…

December 16, 2014

NETWORKING

Video & Software Updates Don’t Need To Overwhelm Your Enterprise Network

Guest post from Lorenz Jakober Video growth is overwhelming the enterprise network We have all been there. At work trying to watch the live company all-hands video, or the latest training, or perhaps even the latest YouTube video. But all we end up with are pixelated videos that take forever to star…

October 31, 2014

TECHWISETV

Smarter Routers for the Intelligent WAN

I really don’t envy the Cisco ISR team. It is really tough to be a leader and still out perform yourselves on a consistent basis.  One could argue there is nowhere to go but down.  I think is cool that TechWiseTV has been around long enough to chronicle the changes over time.  Heck, many of our favo…

July 9, 2014

NETWORKING

IWAN Wed: Say “Yes” and “Now” with Akamai Connect

Has this happened to you? The line of business comes to you one day and says they have this great new idea to train the sales teams.  “Let’s use YouTube videos”, they say.  Or the CMO comes to you and says, “digital signage will increase our revenue if we can promote this next new line of prod…

May 14, 2014

NETWORKING

IWAN Wed: Intelligent WAN @ Cisco Live!

The long awaited Cisco Live in San Francisco is only four days away.  There is a lot in store for our customers including hundreds of technical sessions, keynotes from executives and industry guests, product and solutions demos at World of Solutions and more. One of the most important topics, in my…

March 10, 2014

NETWORKING

Enabling the Business Value of Cloud Through Intelligent Infrastructure

The advent of the many clouds has now become a reality. Enterprises of all sizes and segments are embracing cloud solutions, whether private internal cloud, Virtual Private Cloud, Public Cloud, or some Hybrid. The number of workloads as well as cloud traffic  are expected to grow exponentially in th…

December 9, 2013

NETWORKING

Learning Opportunities This Week With Cisco Experts on IWAN and CMX

This week we have two opportunities for you to learn about Cisco technologies from company experts as well as our technology partners. The first webinar, How Smarter Branches Lower Costs,  is on Wednesday, December 11 at 8am Pacific and discusses how Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) along with Akamai’s…