Akamai vs Infoblox

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Akamai
Based on 117 reviews.
Infoblox
Based on 49 reviews.
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.
Infoblox is a technology company in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois, by Stuart Bailey, who was at the time a technical lead for the Laboratory for Advanced Computing/National Center for Data Mining at the University of Illinois. In 2010, Infoblox acquired network automation vendor Netcordia to complement its core network services products with technologies for network task automation.
Sample Customers
Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise
MCNC, Educational Testing Service
Akamai Edge DNS
Otto Group
Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense
Council Rock School District, EagleView, Schneider Electric, Baptist Memorial Health Care, American University
Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection
Colruyt Group, Council Rock School District, Danone, GlaxoSmithKline, The Hershey Company 
Infoblox DDI
Adobe, Aflac, UCSD, Airbus, Amgen, Apple
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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