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Company byte: CA Technologies

Sunday, July 10th, 2011

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud.

CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company.CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies’ products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility.

The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems.

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6waves selects Akamai to enhance experience for social games

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Akamai makes it possible for 6waves to provide gamers with a fast, reliable and high quality experience with its stable of popular social games that include Ravenwood Fair, Mystery Manor, Mall World, and Resort World.

6waves, developer of social games such as Ravenwood Fair have chosen Akamai to power up gaming experience.

6waves, developer of social games such as Ravenwood Fair have chosen Akamai to power up gaming experience.

“With the rapid growth of game developers and many popular game titles, the social gaming industry is becoming increasingly competitive. Having the best technology is crucial to maintaining a competitive edge,” said Rex Ng, Chief Executive Officer of 6waves.

Akamai Technologies Hong Kong Limited, a leading provider of cloud optimization services, will be providing its Dynamic Site Delivery solutions to 6waves, a leading international publisher and developer of gaming applications.

6waves will be able to enhance the delivery of its social media games and applications to social networking platforms, including Facebook and Yabage in Japan. Akamai supports 6waves in the delivery of some of the most popular social games including Ravenwood Fair, Mystery Manor, Mall World, and Resort World, which attract 15.9 million monthly active users alone.

By using Akamai, 6waves can improve the user experience by reducing the game load time and ensuring a high level of performance, regardless of where the user is located.

Since deploying Akamai’s Dynamic Site solutions, 6waves has improved the overall user experience with a 15 to 45 per cent improvement in page load times and an 85 per cent improvement in large (over 15MB) file download times.

“The success of 6waves’ business is dependent on the quality and speed at which it delivers its social games to the end-user. The consumer’s experience is critical – if it takes too long to download a game, users won’t come back,” said Betty Lin, Regional Manager, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Akamai Technologies, Hong Kong Limited.

In addition, Akamai’s global platform has given 6waves the ability to scale quickly and enter new markets, without the need to deploy any new hardware or software.

6waves’ business model provides distribution and monetization solutions for developers by delivering high quality social games to its global network of 50 million monthly active players. Currently 35 per cent of 6waves users are in Asia, 30 per cent in the United States, 25 per cent in Europe and the remaining 10 per cent spread across the rest of the World.

Akamai’s global platform consists of over 90,000 servers, residing in approximately 1,000 networks, and delivers 15-30 per cent of all Web traffic daily. Akamai’s extensive reach and local availability allows its platform to automatically choose the fastest and most reliable data pathways to ensure that download speeds are optimized for the end-user.

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Akamai helps visualize World IPv6 Day

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Akamai has announced that it will provide a real-time data visualization of IPv6 Web traffic served from its global platform on World IPv6 Day on 8 June 2011. The visualization will show the pattern of traffic served during the 24-hour period.

Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online.Hundreds of websites and Internet service providers around the world are joining Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, and Limelight Networks as participants in World IPv6 Day for the first global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6, being organized by the Internet Society.

During World IPv6 Day on 8 June 2011, more than 225 participating organizations from every part of the globe will enable IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours. With IPv4 addresses running out this year, the industry must act quickly to accelerate full IPv6 adoption or risk increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere.

World IPv6 Day participants are coming together to help motivate organizations across the industry—Internet service providers, hardware manufacturers, operating system vendors and other web companies—to prepare their services for the transition.

“We see this test flight as an important step towards ensuring the global Internet can continue to grow and evolve so that it can connect billions of new users and devices,” said Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer for the Internet Society.One of the goals of World IPv6 Day is to expose potential issues under controlled conditions and address them as soon as possible. Given the diversity of technology that powers the Internet, the global nature of the trial is crucial to identify unforeseen problems.

The vast majority of users should be able to access services as usual, but in rare cases, misconfigured or misbehaving network equipment, particularly in home networks, may impair access to participating websites during the trial.
“We’ve been working to make Google services publicly accessible over IPv6 since 2008, because we believe it’s critical to the long-term prosperity of the open Internet,” said Erik Kline, IPv6 Software Engineer at Google.
Current estimates are that 99.95% of users will experience no problems connecting to web services on IPv6 Day, and participating organizations will be working together with operating system manufacturers, home router vendors and ISPs to minimize the number of users affected.

The Internet Society is supporting World IPv6 Day as part of its efforts to accelerate IPv6 deployment. IPv6, the successor to the protocol currently used on the Internet, was designed in the late 1990s but has not seen deployment on a global scale. With IPv4 address space running out, the industry cannot afford to wait much longer.

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Akamai and Riverbed accelerate cloud applications

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Akamai and Riverbed unite their respective strengths in Internet optimisation and WAN optimisation to accelerate applications over hybrid cloud networks. The joint offering is expected to be available early in 2012.

Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online.Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of cloud optimisation services, and Riverbed Technology, an IT performance company, will be working together to design solutions to overcome the application performance bottlenecks facing enterprises that leverage public cloud services.

“Enterprises are increasingly deploying a mix of both in-house and cloud-based applications,” said Joe Skorupa, research vice president, data center transformation, at Gartner. “As this shift to hybrid networks occurs, ensuring application performance and end-user productivity is critical, creating a need to integrate access to corporate applications, as well as SaaS, in a single pervasive framework.”Today’s enterprises are increasingly adopting public cloud computing services to avoid costly infrastructure build out, and to bring efficiency to business models such as software as a service (SaaS).

As a result, business applications in the cloud, having once resided within the corporate network, are being accessed over an often unpredictable public Internet. New solutions are required to overcome the performance, availability, scalability and security issues introduced by this hybrid network environment.

Both companies will develop a joint application acceleration solution for hybrid cloud networks that leverages a combination of Internet optimisation and wide area network (WAN) optimisation. The planned solution would be designed to accelerate cloud-based applications.

“Accelerating software as a service across a hybrid cloud environment helps businesses increase application adoption. We believe that greater adoption means improved business results, operating and infrastructure savings, and user productivity,” said Eric Wolford, executive vice president of Marketing and Business Development, Riverbed.In creating a joint offering, Akamai and Riverbed intend to focus on technology integration designed to solve the new application performance challenges introduced by hybrid cloud networks. Akamai Internet optimisation software would be integrated within Riverbed Steelhead appliances with the goal of extending Internet optimisations into enterprise networks, thereby extending Akamai’s edge from close proximity to the data center to directly within the enterprise.

In addition, Riverbed WAN optimisation software would be integrated within Akamai edge servers with the goal of extending WAN optimisation into the public cloud, thereby extending Riverbed’s edge from the data center to close proximity to cloud data centers.

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