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With the costs of running a business sky rocketing at the minute, and oil and gas prices going through the roof you may be looking for ways to save a bit of cash? You may also be thinking that with a lot of you employees working in a hybrid environment you want the...

You need help. Your website is slow (we have bench-marked it) and it has errors from third party apps and they also slow first-paint down. Understand immediately how any changes made to your website impacts your users' experiences. Imagine if it gave you real insight...

What can we expect to achieve from utilising a CDN (Content Delivery Network)? What features should we expect to gain from an ideal CDN?  What Are the Benefits of a CDN? CDNs carry a significant portion of the world’s Internet traffic. Akamai handles for...

Fastly, founded in 2011, is a so-called next Generation CDN, providing acceleration and video services. It was originally built addressing a DevOps audience given its technical foundation over it’ ‘Varnish’ technology and strong focus on APIs. Fastly uses web...

Akamai has lots of useful statistics to support the theory that page load time directly impacts revenue and conversion. After all, Akamai sees 40% of the world’s Internet traffic daily.Figures to consider (Akamai SOASTA April 2017) areA 100-millisecond delay in...

Akamai invented the edge 22 years ago. The edge is where users connect, where clouds, devices, and immense streams of data come together.Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realise competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power of...

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is designed to scale the web properties (also known as the origin) which is done in four different areas Performance, Optimisation, Monitoring and Automation.A traditional CDN makes web content faster for the end users. For the sites...

At ITogether we are often talking to customers about Akamai for the first time. We evangelise everything Akamai and we love them and their platform !We often get into a conversation along the lines of ‘how big’ ‘how resilient’ ‘how much traffic’ ‘what happens if’ –...

A question we come across quite frequently is ‘Why is Akamai so much better than Cloudflare ?’ - of course this question can have many elements to both the question and the answer, but if we consider a potential customer of either vendor is considering CDN services...

If you are considering an Arbor Networks (now part of NetScout) solution to protect your organisation from DDoS then you might want to read this article.Arbor Networks is a software company founded in 2000 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Arbor sells network...

Traffic on Akamai’s intelligent edge platform reached 106 Tbps week commencing 21st October 2019, beating the 100 Tbps mark for the first time in the company’s 20-year history.This is “roughly the same as downloading 3,300 two-hour HD movies every second, or...

The first thing that grabs me when I look at this graphic is simply how much bigger the leader in the CDN market is.After 21 years in the game (and inventing the game itself!) Akamai are bigger than all of the competitors they have attracted combined !Even the...

What is 3CX ?3CX is a Phone System which is a software-based VoIP for Windows and Mac that works with SIP standard based IP Phones.It has a simple to use interface and setup facility.It is used by big companies for e.g. American Express, MacDonald’s, Holiday Inn and...

ITogether is an award-winning Akamai Silver Partner with advanced specialties, and the distinction of multiple certified engineers in our team.Our engineers are recognised by Akamai as self sufficient technical experts and advocates and...

Akamai is the company that you use every day without even knowing it. Akamai’s network handles over 30% of the world’s Internet traffic on a 24hr basis around the world. Here’s some statistics 240,000 servers worldwide1700 networks3900 locations137 countriesTheir...

Very little has been written publicly about why you should NOT buy into Incapsula DDoS or WAF protection.Here at ITogether we thought it would be useful for anyone considering buying Incapsula to read an article that explains why this would be a bad idea and a false...

While ISP-based DDoS mitigation services appear to be simple and natural solutions to protecting your Internet circuits, disadvantages include insufficient scale, less security expertise and response, and the inability to protect against attacks arriving over networks...