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A lot of corporations use Akamai, Microsoft included -- http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_li
by fname 15y ago
A lot of corporations use Akamai, Microsoft included -- http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html.
Interesting enough, the only name missing from that list? Google.
- adambyrtek 15y agoThis is not really surprising. Infrastructure is a key competitive advantage of Google, and they prefer to build their own stuff (including CDNs) instead of outsourcing it.
- muzz 15y agoYes, so the combination of Google + Akamai would be big enough to trigger anti-trust concerns, I would imagine.
- jackowayed 15y agoGiven that Google is barely in the infrastructure market (they mostly just have a ton for their own uses), I don't see how Google + Akamai would be any less competitive than Akamai on its own. I guess there could be some issues since this makes Google's competitors in other markets reliant on them, but from a "too much good infrastructure in one company" standpoint, I don't see how there would be anti-trust concerns.
- mixmax 15y agoSo why would they want to buy Akamai?
- adambyrtek 15y agoProbably to get into the CDN business. Making the web faster is one of Google's strategic goals, and they try to achieve it by many different means.
- muzz 15y agoGoogle is essentially its own CDN: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/03/18/google-boosts-peering-to-save-on-bandwidth/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/03/18/googl... Why would they want to make other sites on the web faster?
- namityadav 15y agoGoogle has always wanted to make web faster. See http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ http://code.google.com/speed/articles/ . And I'm sure you know about various Google tools (including Chrome) that try to speed up web. They rely very heavily on web, and it's absolutely important for them to speed up web for people to keep moving away from native.