Akamai and Quocirca Identify ‘4-Second’ Performance Threshold For … - SourceWire (press release)- BuildingWebsiteNews

The findings also show that European-based companies are becoming increasingly reliant on the public Internet as a cost-effective way to extend the reach of mission-critical, Web-based enterprise applications such as portals, content management, supply chain management, customer relationship management and sales force automation to geographically dispersed end users. Yet, since the Internet was not designed for use as a business platform, it does not efficiently meet user demands for reliable, fast access to business applications. Improved performance and reliability of Web-based applications correlates to increased adoption, higher productivity and user satisfaction for greater branch office collaboration and supply chain efficiency. Whichever solution companies opt for to address these issues, resolving the reliability and performance of web-based applications is certainly one of the top IT priorities for many European businesses as they strive to deliver a web-based model for their business processes and applications. As a company that offers solutions to address the latency and packet loss problems across the middle mile of the Internet, we believe that only by delivering applications and content in a managed and efficient way across the Internet can application performance be properly addressed. The edge servers utilize the Akamai Protocol to provide global LAN like performance and availability to Web applications delivered over the Internet, enabling enterprises to centralize their infrastructure yet not compromise performance and availability of their applications whether their delivery requirements are coast-to-coast or global. read more

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