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Visualize Visitor Prioritization in Real Time with mPulse
COVID-19 is changing our behavior as we try to avoid person-to-person contact. For example, according to the Google Mobility Report, September 2020 shows an average 23% drop in retail and recreation activity ...
Timers, Metrics, and Dimensions: What’s New in mPulse in 2020
The October 2020 release marks the culmination of a large number of updates to mPulse, Akamai's real user monitoring (RUM) solution: ...
Thirty-four years in IT – The Application That Almost Broke Me (Part 9)
The last half of 2011 was for me an my team a really, really tough time.As I hinted to in this post, by August 2011 we were buried in Oracle 11 & ...
Thirty-four years in IT – Swimming with the Itanic (Part 8)
For historical reasons, we were a strong VMS shop. Before they imploded, Digital Equipment treated EDU's very kindly, offering extremely good pricing on software in exchange for hardware adoption. In essence, a ...
The Benefits of SD-WAN for Branch Office Connectivity
A wide-area network, or WAN, is necessary for any company that is seeking to expand or has resources separated by distance. It allows separate branches to communicate with each other and the ...
Which Countries Store The Most Photos? | Avast
Twenty years ago, people mostly took photos that were carefully timed and staged. Today, with gigabytes of storage on our phones, we snap continuously and without worry. Since they cost nothing and ...
How Many Of The Photos That We Store Are Bad? | Avast
With large amounts of storage available on our modern smartphones, most of us have gotten into the habit of unconsciously snapping photo after photo, not giving a second thought to what that ...
Why your legacy CDN doesn’t meet the needs of your modern website
Years ago, when Internet Explorer was king and most people browsed the web via a wired desktop device, content delivery networks (CDNs) helped businesses accelerate content delivery by overcoming middle mile latency ...
Why web experiences need to balance speed and security
Odds are your web app or website will be the first impression of your business. 88 percent of people conduct online research before engaging with a company. Furthermore, three out of four ...
Avast Cleanup Premium End of Support for XP | Avast
In October 2001, Microsoft released one of the longest-running operating systems in history (as well as the now infamous “Bliss” wallpaper above) to the world: Windows XP. In April 2014, Microsoft stopped ...
