...AKAMAI CASE STUDY Victoria’s Secret Web Site Raises the Bar on Customer Experience with Content Delivery from Akamai and IBM Akamai Delivers Record Traffic, Improved Performance, and $1,000,000 in Infrastructure Savings “It’s one of those great situations where everybody wins. Akamai enables VictoriasSecret.com to efficiently distribute content for our global e-commerce site while reducing the load on our infrastructure. This provides customers a fast, seamless user experience.” — Chris Evans, Webmaster, VictoriasSecret.com The Challenge The Unpredictability of Marketing and the Online Channel In January 1999, Victoria’s Secret aired its first-ever Super Bowl commercial, announcing the live Webcast of its Spring Fashion Show. The site was flooded with millions of hits within the first few minutes after the spot ran. Just a few days later, the Live Webcast drew a recordbreaking worldwide 1.5 million visitors. This incredible drawing power posed technical challenges for VictoriasSecret.com and many customers were turned away due to the Web site’s inability to support the traffic bursts. Immediately after the 1999 Spring show, VictoriasSecret.com executives began preparing for an even bigger event – the 2000 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Webcast live from Cannes, France. The Victoria’s Secret team recognized they needed to deliver an incredible user experience with improved traffic management and faster content distribution. “After the tremendous response we received...
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...also where they work, how much they work, or with whom they interact face to face or electronically. The Internet is an integral part of our everyday lives. Because of the distributed nature of the Internet, there is no single point of measurement for total Internet traffic. Internet traffic data from public peering points can give an indication of Internet volume and growth, but these figures exclude traffic that remains within a single service provider's network as well as traffic that cross private peering points. AKAMAI Technologies is currently a content delivery network industry leader. AKAMAI is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global internet content and application delivery. However, over the past five years the industry has begun to shift, resulting in more competitors entering the market and additional demand for new and improved services. This paper discusses how the company made it through difficult instances. AKAMAI as a Business, a Commercial Service and a Network Provider The father of the Web foresaw the congestion of network, and he challenged colleagues at MIT to invent a fundamentally new and better way to deliver Internet content. Exposing such an academic problem would ultimately result in a service that is revolutionizing the Internet. Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin, developed a set of breakthrough algorithms for intelligently routing and replicating content over a large network of distributed servers – without relying n centralized...
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...ORGANIZATIONS, AND STRATEGY NBA: Competing on Global Delivery With Akamai OS Streaming CASE 1 VIDEO CASE Systems SUMMARY The NBA uses Akamai’s global streaming video service to reach customers and strategic partners in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America with high quality video streams of NBA rich media content and programs. URL http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/testimonials/nba.html NOTE The Akamai video is a high-quality video that requires a broadband connection of greater than 5 Mbps. The video plays best at connection speeds of greater than 15 Mbps (cable or FIOS ISP speeds). If you have trouble playing it on a Mozilla browser (Firefox), switch to Internet Explorer. Also, if you let it play through once, the second playback will be smoother because some of the content is cached on local servers and your computer. Alternatively, find a campus or corporate network which has the requisite bandwidth. CASE The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the leading professional basketball league in the United States and Canada with 30 teams. The NBA is one of four North American professional sports leagues. The other leagues are the Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. While focused on the North America, the continued Chapter 3, Case 1 NBA: Competing on Global Delivery With Akamai OS Streaming 2 NBA has a large international following and is televised...
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...STRATEGY NBA: Competing on Global Delivery With Akamai OS Streaming VIDEO CASE Systems TAGS SUMMARY Firm strategy; IT strategy; value chain; network based strategies; strategic ecosystems; strategic partners. The NBA uses Akamai’s global streaming video service to reach customers and strategic partners in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America with high quality video streams of NBA rich media content and programs. http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/testimonials/nba.html The Akamai video is a high quality video that requires a broadband connection of greater than 5 MBPS. The video plays best at connection speeds of greater than 15 MBPS (Cable or FIOS ISP speeds). If you have trouble playing it on a Mozilla browser (Firefox), switch to Internet Explorer. Also, if you let it play through once, the second playback will be smoother because some of the content is cached on local servers and your computer. Alternatively, find a campus or corporate network which has the requisite bandwidth. URL NOTE CASE “The National Basketball Association (NBA) is North America’s premier professional men’s basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada. It is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing Body (NGB) for basketball continued Chapter 3 Case 1 NBa: CompetiNg oN gloBal Delivery With akamai os streamiNg 2 in the United States. The NBA...
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...Ahmed Ouamer Class: E-commerce and Web Design MG 448 Professor: Marcus Conclaves Case study 3: Akamai Technologies BU fall semester 2012 Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. U.S. Akamai's network is one of the world's largest distributed-computing platforms. The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin (then a graduate student at MIT) and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Akamai is a Hawaiian word meaning smart or intelligent with connotations of insightful, wise or skillful. 1) Akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its customer`s web content much faster and closer to end user, so a user in New York city for instance will be served LL Bean pages from new york metro area Akamai server and vice versa. 2) Yes I would sign up for Akamai`s service because it has more than 73000 servers and provide a good service. There many other alternatives like blue coat, lime light and mirror image internet. 3) Akamai also offers a product line called advertising decision solution, which provides companies with intelligence generated by the internet`s most accurate and comprehensive knowledge base of internet network activity. Advertiser can deliver ads based on country, region and city .marketing and information service will benefit a lot from the Akamai service. 4) Major business do not distribute their video through p2p networks because it takes a...
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...Computer Based Learning & Shaw University IS535 –Managerial Applications of Information Technology Abstract On September 22, 2011 I set out to explore the effects of full scale Computer Based Learning within Shaw University. My agenda was clear, my outcome was predictable. On October 15, 2011 I concluded my research. Little did I know, Computer Based Learning would become more than just a technological tool used by the Shaw U. It would become the way of the future and most likely the life blood of the university. Table of Contents Definition 2 Background of Company 3-4 Current Business Issues 5-6 Proposed Solution 7 Recommendations 8 References 9 Definition Many people hear the term computer based learning and assume that it’s a method of college students taking classes at home. Fortunately for those of us that use it, and industry vendors that provide computer based learning, it’s not quite that simple. Computer based learning, sometimes abbreviated to CBL, refers to the use of computers as a key component of the educational environment. The term more broadly refers to a structured environment in which computers are used for teaching purposes. CBL originally derived from computer based training, known as CBT. Computer based learning first emerged in the 1980s. During the 1990s a group of schools were identified as computer based learning institutions. These schools used constructivist and cognitive learning plans. The two environments...
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...University of Florida Block Tuition Fact Sheet Definition of Block Tuition: UF defines full time as an undergraduate student enrolled for 12 or more credit hours during a semester in the academic year. In 2009-2010, the average academic load of full time undergraduates was 14.1 credits at UF. In order to graduate from a standard 120 credit hour degree program in eight semesters, a student needs to complete an average of 15 credits per semester. This is considered a standard academic load as recognized by the President’s Honor Roll and represents 4-5 courses per semester. Beginning in the Fall 2012 semester, full time undergraduate students enrolled in statefunded academic programs will be billed for tuition and fees at the rate of 15 credits for Fall and Spring Semester. The fees included in the Block Tuition are the Student Financial Aid fee, Capital Improvement Trust Fund fee, Building fee, Health fee, Athletic fee, Activity and Service fee, Transportation Access fee, and Technology fee. In addition, non-residents are charged the following: Non-Resident Student Financial Aid Fee. Other fees that may apply to individual courses will be billed to the student on either a per-credit-hour basis or per-course basis, as is our current practice, such as Materials and Supplies fees (per-course), Distance Education fees (per-credit-hour), and Equipment Use fees (per-credit-hour). Benefits of Block Tuition: Block Tuition will serve as an incentive to raise the academic load...
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...Why an MBA The MBA is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. It is a degree designed to give you the ability to develop your career to its fullest potential, at an accelerated pace. What will you get out of an MBA? Aside from a powerful life experience, the MBA degree should supply three main value propositions: Skills, Networks, and Brand. Skills These include the "hard skills" of economics, finance, marketing, operations, management, and accounting, as well as the "soft skills " of leadership, teamwork, ethics, and communication that are so critical for effective management. MBA students acquire these skills inside and outside the classroom. Since MBA programs attract people from very diverse industries and cultures, a program should be able to leverage these differences and translate them into learning opportunities. Networks An MBA degree program offers access to a network of MBA students, alumni, faculty, and business and community leaders. This network can be very useful when beginning a job search, developing a career path, building business relationships in your current career, or pursuing expertise outside your current field. For example, entrepreneurs need access to capital, business partners, vendors, and clients. Arts-related businesses need access to funding and strategic management in order to position themselves to be relevant in the marketplace. Global businesses need access to local business cultures as they expand their enterprises to new territories...
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...“Factors Affecting the Academic Performance of Students” Paulo Angelo Dela Rosa Mary Joy Cantilla James Cañete Ansarie Datua Bonnie Fe Bangero Beverly Acana Introduction Education in its broadest meaning is any process by which an individual gains knowledge or insight or develops attitudes or skills. It is an experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to another generation. It is generally believed that the basis for any true development must commence with the development of human resources. When we come to think of students, they are the ones who learn ideas to become more responsible and productive someday. Examples of the factors affecting the academic performance of students are the environmental, social/ family, teachers, friend relationships, and socio-economic factors. Almost all of the factors are a variable of academic performance. However, the researchers would like to investigate the possible relationship of factors affecting to the academic achievement of under graduate students of Notre Dame of Tacurong College. “Significance of the Study” Paulo Angelo Dela Rosa Mary Joy Cantilla James Cañete Ansarie Datua Bonnie Fe Bangero Beverly Acana 1. This study would provide relevant information to the school...
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...There are lot off things that students have to go through college in order to graduate. There several obstacles that students face during the school year, which lead to dropping out of College. To prevent college dropouts, colleges can play a major role to provide them with financial aid, flexible schedules, and academic support. One of the obstacle is finical aid. I am using community college as an example. The majority of students who attend either fall under the category of poor to middle class, or they are international students. Beside this fact they come from different financial backgrounds these students are bright and eager to study and want to secure their future. Families which can only provide enough so the family can live puts a lot off responsibility on the students. It is hard for students to stay in collage since they have to help provide for their family. Giving out different types off aid such as FAFSA, TAP and/or loans provide opportunities and help take the load off of them. A few years back ,in order to get any type off financial help, colleges looked at attendance and students grades. Now, getting into college only counts for 2.5 GPA or higher. Factoring in all the extra money that students can save also prevent college dropouts. Students who are dedicated to education and want to finish their school on time, would like college to have flexible scheduling. It would be Great opportunity for students and provide optimism so they can continue with their...
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...alcohol by college students has always been an issue for university campuses, but the problem has become more and more frequent and has grown in familiarity with every passing generation. In past years, the problem has not only multiplied in frequency, but has also grown in danger. Now students are abusing not only recreational drugs like Marijuana and Cocaine, but also prescription drugs like Ritalin and others like it such as Adderall. "As many as 20 percent of college students have used Ritalin or Adderall to study, write papers, and take exams..." (Jacobs 2). Medications like Ritalin are used to provide energy and concentration when a person cannot achieve them through regular means. Students take medication like Ritalin to help them deal with loss of sleep so they can stay up all night to cram and still do well in class. Students are now using similar medications like Adderall that are released over long periods of time so they can keep an energy high throughout an entire day instead of just one or two class periods. On some campuses, if you’re not using Ritalin or Adderall, you are just increasing your risk to fall behind. As one Columbia student said, “If you don’t take them, you’ll be at a disadvantage to everyone else” (Jacobs 3). This previous statement is unfortunately all too true, these types of prescription medications are so popular and commonplace that students attending certain universities believe that “now it’s almost cool to take them” (Jacobs...
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...Factors Affecting Study Habits FACTORS AFFECTING THE STUDY HABITS OF THE 1ST YEAR ACT STUDENT A Research Presented to The Faculty of the Language Department National College of Science and Technology In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the subject in Communication Arts II DIONISIO C. NARRIDO JR. March 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researcher would like to acknowledge with sincere appreciation and deepest gratitude those special people who help to finish this study. The Almighty God, who gives strength, talent, and wisdom and source of life. For without Him, the researcher is useless. To Ms. Vanessa Montenegro, for her patience, understanding and encouragement and whose expertise and knowledge were unselfishly shared. The researcher truly appreciates all the time and assistance that she gave to the researcher. To Mr. Romeo Delfin Jr. who gave the critical comments and valuable suggestions and assistance in the development of this study. To researcher’s beloved guardians, for the love, understanding and support they gave to the researcher. They serve as the researcher’s inspiration. Thank you! CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Research on the correlation between study habit and students academic achievement has for long received attention from scholars and educational agencies. For instance, the national Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 1994 conducted a study to find out the relationship between study habits and academic performance...
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...Admission Checklist for Piedmont Technical College Nursing and Health Science To Do □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ Determine your major by reviewing the programs we offer online or in the college catalog. Admissions Counselors are available to answer your questions or schedule a campus visit for you. We know you’ve chosen the right college. Let us help you choose the right major. o Still undecided? We have a Career Counselor that can help you make a decision. Schedule an appointment today by calling (864) 941-8356. Submit an online application. Complete a FAFSA. o This is not required unless you plan to seek financial aid, i.e. PELL Grant, Lottery Tuition Assistance, or student loan. o Complete this application early. Other items may be requested in addition to the application. Deadlines and priority dates are in place to guide you through this process. o Students eligible for LIFE Scholarship must complete the form. o See additional information online. Submit your high school transcript or GED to the Admissions Office. Submit college transcripts for all colleges you’ve attended to the Student Records Office. Complete the mandatory Information Session required for your major. o The session schedules are online for your convenience. o Transition Nursing and Health Science Transfer programs have their own specified sessions. See additional information online. Schedule your Placement Test. o All new students must complete placement testing unless waived by Admissions...
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...Guns on College Campus Should guns be allowed on college campus? Kenton L. McGowen Abstract This paper will determine whether guns have a place on college, and school campuses. The conclusion that the paper reaches is that students who have guns will be tempted to use them, especially at universities and colleges that are full of drug use, stress, and anxiety. The mixture of guns into a formula like that is simply not conducive to a safe environment. This paper will take evidence from experts, as well as state rulings to show the two sides of gun control in regards to school campuses in order to answer the question: Should guns be allowed on college campuses? The constitution of the United States guarantees our right to bear arms in order to defend ourselves, but where does the line fall where it is ok and not okay to carry weapons? The debate has shifted from restaurants, to stores, and now to schools. It is recently that the question has come up, should college campus students be allowed to have guns? The question is a safety issue and mostly centers around a need for the preservation of life on these campuses, and whether or not the guns are absolutely necessary to have. It has been spurred on by the recent slew of school shootings that have hit areas of the country, most notably Virginia Tech in 2006. There are valid argumentative points to both sides, however. As previously mentioned, the constitution of the United States guarantees...
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