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Akamai must formulate a viable strategy to succeed in an industry that is volatile with thin margins. The company has a commoditized service offering and deals with customers that compete against it. It is challenged both by cloud providers that have more scale and ways to make money, and by competitors that have distinct CapEx advantages. Akamai i...

Akamai is well aware of the major content purging limitations of its platform and has been building a new system, which allows purging within a few seconds. Accordingly, Akamai’s new “Fast Purge” solution enables its customers to invalidate or delete their content from all of Akamai’s Edge servers through API and UI in “approximately 5 se...

Despite some of the positive commentary about the quality of Twitter's NFL live stream, there has been much less discussion about the user interface experience or the fact that Twitter can’t cover its licensing costs via any advertising model. What Twitter is doing with the NFL games is interesting, but it lacks engagement and is a loss leader fo...

Content owners make claims about the quality of their over-the-top content (OTT) offering without having any metrics to verify them. Some established OTT services such as Netflix and Amazon have built their own platforms and technology to measure QoS, but typical OTT providers need to use third-party providers. Although new QoS vendors are entering...

Although CDNs play a vital role in how the Web works, the volume, variety, and velocity of the log files that CDNs generate can cause issue detection and mitigation to become exceedingly difficult. To overcome this data challenge, it is necessary to first have an understanding of normal CDN patterns before identifying activities that deviate from t...

This market insight on the global tablet devices market discusses the possible reasons for the steep decline in tablet shipments and also suggests what can be done to arrest this fall. It provides market definitions, unit shipment forecasts, segmentation by region, and market share analysis of the key competitors in the market. The competitive envi...

The market insight provides unit shipment forecasts and market share analysis for the global digital still cameras and camcorders market. The digital still cameras and camcorders forecast covers unit shipment shares by both country of sale and country of manufacture. The base year is 2015 and the forecast period is 2016 to 2020. The study also prov...

Over a period of roughly 3 years, Apple has taken a large percentage of its content delivery to its in-house CDN. It is using its own CDN for iTunes, iOS and OS X updates, music streaming, and a host of other assorted Apple content. Part of Apple’s reasoning for building its own CDN was because of performance issues with iCloud. In addition, Appl...

As major content owners/distributors continue to bring more of their content delivery in-house, third-party CDN providers are being affected. In the case of Akamai, the key reason for the slowdown in traffic and revenue growth was a result of Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook moving a larger percentage of their traffic to their in-house delivery netwo...