Essays on Akamai

The most important reason that pushes Akamai Technologies to disperse its servers geographically is infrastructural issued. The system of Akamai’s products works in the next way: after receiving the request from the user about any file (video\images\music\etc.) system pass this request to the nearest Akamai’s server, where a copy of web-site that is needed is situated. So there is no need to pass the whole way from the user’s computer to the server of web-site (it could be even in the opposite part of the world!), but only to the nearest Akamai’s ...

For most consumer goods, effective marketing and distribution channels are suitable mechanisms to obtain profitability. The pathways are expected to change just as the markets evolve. That was the situation that faced Jones Soda Company following the increased demand for the beverages in new markets. An enterprise must ensure that it makes its products available to consumers to facilitate solid growth. Many firms get stuck in the same patterns of distribution for decades such that they fail to tap the full potential of the markets. This essay attempts to understand why Jones Soda opted to change its marketing strategy ...

Introduction

Bash or Shellshock Bash Bug is a seriously dangerous vulnerability is present in a majority of distributions of Apple’s Mac OS X, Linux and UNIX. Stephane Chazelas was the discoverer of the Bash bug (Mimoso, 2014).

Type of Flaw/Condition within the Operating Systems

Bash Bug is a flaw that makes it possible for a system attacker or invader to remotely put together a variable and a malicious executable. The invoking of Bash then executes the damage. In other words, this security flaw allows the creation of environment variables consisting of malevolent code before the Bash shell is called by the system (Mimoso, 2014). It is a super simple vulnerability that can ...

Executive Summary

This is a case of Akamai Technologies, a company that is concerned with making improvements in the current internet technologies and infrastructures. The main problem in the case was the fact that the current internet infrastructures offer limited services to a lot of bandwidth hungry users and so there are fears that in about the next succeeding years, the bandwidth demand may well surpass the bandwidth supply, which would definitely be a bad thing especially for heavy users and businessmen that are dependent on the internet for e-commerce purposes. Possible solutions include improving the capacity of the internet infrastructures from time to time— ...

Akamai Technologies needs to expand disperse its servers to various geographical regions in order to cater for the rapidly growing market demand for the internet. The congestion of the users of the internet is due to the increasing number of the people who have access to the internet compared to the rate at which the internet is expanding in capacity. The rate of users of the internet is highly increasing compared to the rate at which the internet is expanding its capacity. The main contributor to this effect is the rapid advancements in technology for instance, easy access to ...

Institutional

Differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 Paradigms Web 2.0 is a program with many advantages. It enjoys collective intelligence; it has a beta and long tail. The essence of the software as a service and is rich in client performance. The web designs of the two versions differ. Whereas web 1.0 has double click, mp3.com, screen scraping, page views and personal websites features the web2.0 has features like Google Ad sense, Wikipedia, wikis, syndication, tagging, blogging and napster features. The web 2.0 posses’ gravitational core while web 1.oo posses’ hard boundary. This is a very distinct difference between the two ...