Is the Internet Entering a New Phrase? Er, Phase?
June 29, 2012
Akamai CEO Paul Sagan has declared that the ability to instantly deliver online is now make-or-break for businesses, ZDNet reports in “Akamai CEO: We’re Entering ‘Instant Internet’ Phase.” The executive shared his views at the recent GigaOm Structure 2012. The article reports:
“‘We’re about to enter a phase where we talk about the instant Internet,’ said Sagan, explaining we started with being extremely patient (on dial-up connectivity) with successive improvements over time.
“If you want to be competitive, Sagan warned, basically you must deliver on this concept or your business doesn’t have a chance.
“‘It creates big thresholds of challenge for us to deliver that experience,’ Sagan acknowledged. ‘We are promising our customers that we will deliver any content anywhere, anytime.’
“Sagan added security is the other catch here as ‘the bad guys are moving in.'”
All true, and important for companies to keep in mind. However, do these developments represent a whole new phase in the life of the Internet? I think not. Becoming faster and more popular is growth, not a shift.
Akamai‘s cloud platform helps clients build their online business presence while emphasizing security. The company’s data management technology is rooted in a challenge issued among MIT professors in 1995. The company grew from solutions to this challenge, and launched in 1999. Akamai is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has offices worldwide.
Cynthia Murrell, June XX, 2012
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