Akamai on Wednesday introduced the Akamai Open Platform Initiative. Designed to give customers and partners the ability to more easily architect for Akamai services, the set of programs and components that comprise the Open Platform Initiative is intended to create more opportunities for community collaboration and innovation, and provide deeper visibility into and greater control of how enterprises interact with Akamai technology.
«Offering our customers and partners the right technology and the freedom to use it in compelling ways are at the foundation of the Akamai Open Platform Initiative,» explained Rick McConnell, president, Products and Development at Akamai. «The ability to use the power of the Akamai Intelligent Platform enables developers to take advantage of emerging Internet opportunities and create innovative web experiences optimized for their customers.»
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Ensuring Platform Success by Growing Ecosystems
In the past, innovation in the IT industry consisted of a few large vendors developing hardware and software products in virtual isolation. This behavior stemmed from the desire to hide trade secrets from competition and maintain a lead in the market. Few solutions dominated the IT landscape and gave customers limited options while allowing products to thrive on high profit margins. Ever since the success of Linux, the market has been moving to a new paradigm in which hardware and software platforms harness co-development supported by a larger ecosystem of developers and partners.
WebRTC Summit | Wrangling WebRTC in the Cloud: Taming the Beast
WebRTC as a technology for real-time communication is gaining a lot of traction and as we move to using WebRTC in real-world use cases, how does a cloud-based WebRTC infrastructure fit into this equation?
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Badri Rajasekar, VP of Engineering at TokBox, will dive into various client-side considerations and what it takes to support them from a cloud offering perspective such as NAT traversal, mobile support, quality of experience, signaling and analytics. He will also delve into how this all fits together in the WebRTC landscape and what it takes to develop a cloud-based WebRTC offering.
WebRTC Summit | Wrangling WebRTC in the Cloud: Taming the Beast
WebRTC as a technology for real-time communication is gaining a lot of traction and as we move to using WebRTC in real-world use cases, how does a cloud-based WebRTC infrastructure fit into this equation?
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Badri Rajasekar, VP of Engineering at TokBox, will dive into various client-side considerations and what it takes to support them from a cloud offering perspective such as NAT traversal, mobile support, quality of experience, signaling and analytics. He will also delve into how this all fits together in the WebRTC landscape and what it takes to develop a cloud-based WebRTC offering.
Oracle and Accenture take pharma R&D to the cloud
Andrew Brosnan, Senior Analyst, Health Sciences
Life sciences companies are faced with significant economic challenges that necessitate a change in their business model: the cost of developing new drugs is too high, and the current cost of healthcare is unsustainable. As a result, big pharmaceutical companies must leverage new technologies to extract greater value from their data while reducing the cost of drug development.
At this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle and Accenture outlined the R&D IT platform that they are developing to provide pharma companies with enhanced analytical capabilities while streamlining the industry’s drug development operations.
A complex environment and increasing trial costs necessitate change
The cost of clinical trials has been steadily increasing, and the thresholds for the commercialization of new drugs have been raised. Clinical trials are becoming more difficult to run and more complex in nature, particularly with the increasing application of personalized …
How to Sell the Cloud to a Reluctant Executive
There are a lot of reasons to consider cloud or SaaS software options for your business systems. But there are two things you must do when you pitch the idea to executives: cut through the jargon and address security concerns in accessible terms.
How to Sell the Cloud to a Reluctant Executive
There are a lot of reasons to consider cloud or SaaS software options for your business systems. But there are two things you must do when you pitch the idea to executives: cut through the jargon and address security concerns in accessible terms.
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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Building Big Data Solutions in the Cloud
The success of extracting people-oriented business intelligence depends upon the ability to collect every possible expression and derive the business observations from it. Usually this is done by implementing machine-learning algorithms running on large datasets using Big Data and cloud technologies. However, often the requirements for Big Data analysis are not well understood by the developers and business owners, thus creating an undesirable product. There is a need to develop the expertise and process of creating small-scale prototypes quickly and testing them to demonstrate correctness, to match with business goals.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Shrikant Pattathil, Executive Vice President at Harbinger Systems, will discuss how to practice agile process modeling using non-production rapid prototyping technologies to develop a working lightweight prototype. This prototype can be easily migrated to cloud technologies with larger datasets ready for production.
Eleven Secrets of SaaS Product Design
SaaS product management professionals should always remember that there are four P’s in marketing, one being product. Unfortunately, software companies have a bad habit of thinking about product in isolation from the rest of the marketing mix. This is a particularly costly mistake in SaaS and is the root cause of many a SaaS Don’t. Unlike other businesses, SaaS creates a real-time, always-on connection between the customer and the company through the SaaS product. Smart SaaS product managers look to establish this connection as early as possible and to leverage it throughout the entire SaaS customer lifecycle.