I’m at IBM’s Impact conference and will be able to hit a few sessions. One session I’m in is by Akamai about caching of content. They use routing, transport, and application optimization to make their network optimized around the world. What’s interesting is that they also are joining the cloud computing model and their existing optimizations of their network, may just be able to make applications run fairly fast on their network. This is interesting because I’m working with a number of clients who are running business partner portals and one of the big issues is latency. It’s not just about the content though. Many more applications are hitting the internet and users are demanding faster performance.
It’s interesting that what made Akamai good with content caching has also given them an edge with tuning the performance of dynamic applications. 60,000 different data centers and optimized protocols will let you take care of both High Availability and performance of the network itself.
It’s interesting enough that I think I’ll hit them up on the show floor and dive a little deeper.