Akamai vs Google

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Akamai
Based on 117 reviews.
Google
Based on 821 reviews.
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Overview
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a content delivery network or CDN and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years their customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of this website, almost entirely invisible to the vast majority of its users.
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"
Sample Customers
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE
Akamai App and API Protector
Douglas Omaha Technology Commission, ZALORA, PrintPlanet
Akamai Enterprise Application Access
Bugcrowd, InPowered, Spirent Communications
Akamai mPulse
Nordstrom, Gatwick, DirecTV, MSN, SquareSpace, SAP, Lenovo, Hallmark, myspace, Intuit, Kentucky Derby, Toys "R" Us, Netflix, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Lowe's, Nike, REI, Apple, Sears, Verizon, Wendy's, Huawei
Akamai Edge DNS
Otto Group
Linode
Best Buy, Panasonic, Giphy, Marco Polo, World Health Organization, Font Squirrel
Akamai NetStorage
* **Amazon.com** * **Apple** * **AT&T** * **Bank of America** * **Cisco Systems** * **Coca-Cola** * **Dell** * **Ebay** * **Facebook** * **Google** * **HP** * **IBM** * **Intel** * **LinkedIn** * **Microsoft** * **Netflix** * **Oracle** * **PayPal** * **SAP** * **Siemens** * **Sony** * **Toyota** * **Visa** * **Walmart** * **World Bank** * **Yahoo!** * **Zynga**
Google Workspace
There are over five million businesses that use Google Apps for Business worldwide. Some key customers include The Roche Group, National Geographic, American Red Cross, City of Los Angeles, Flight Centre, and Konica Minolta.
Google Cloud Storage
1. Adobe 2. Airbnb 3. Amazon 4. Apple 5. AT&T 6. Baidu 7. Cisco 8. Coca-Cola 9. Dell 10. eBay 11. Facebook 12. Ford 13. Google 13. HP 14. IBM 15. Intel 16. JPMorgan Chase 17. LinkedIn 18. Lyft 19. Microsoft 20. Netflix 21. Nike 22. Oracle 23. PayPal 24. Pinterest 25. Qualcomm 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Tesla 29. Toyota 30. Twitter 31. Visa 32. Walmart 33. WeWork
Google Drive Enterprise
Journal Communications
Google Firebase
Fabulous, Pic Collage, Shazam, SkyScanner
Google Compute Engine
Allthecooks, BetterCloud, Bluecore, Cosentry, Evite, Ezakus, HTC, Infectious Media, iStreamPlanet, Mendelics, SageMathCloud, Sedex, Treeptik, Wibigoo, Wix, zulily, Zync
Google Tag Manager
Airbnb, dafiti, Novartis International AG, Magazineluiza, Rail Europe
Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver)
Uber, Batterii, Q42, Dovetail Games
Google Cloud DNS
MeilleursAgents
Google Anthos
HSBC, Target, 20th Century Fox, Twitter, American Cancer Society, PayPal, Bloomberg, Nielsen, McKesson
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Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Educational Organization
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
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