Point2 Technologies, Inc. has joined such
technology giants as Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM in integrating
Akamai’s Edgeplatform. Edgeplatform is the largest distributed
computing network on Earth, consisting of nearly 15,000 servers in over
70 countries worldwide, and offers a level of scalability, stability,
and security that is simply unavailable anywhere else.
Akamai’s
network routinely handles up to 15% of all global web traffic, and is a
significant contributor to the stability of the World Wide Web itself.
Point2’s origin servers communicate directly with the Akamai servers
which in turn communicate with Point2 clients. Because the Akamai
servers are ‘on the edge,’ and are physically near to virtually every
computer on earth, speed is dramatically increased, scalability becomes
virtually boundless, and the strain placed on individual networks by
wildly fluctuating traffic loads is minimized.
“The
network stability, additional security, and performance gains realized
by implementing Edgeplatform are immeasurably valuable for Point2” says
Brendan King, Point2 Realty Solutions COO. “Because our web presence
will constantly be maintained on all of Akamai’s remote servers as well
as our own, our services will remain always-on, even in the event of
some major unforeseeable local interruption. Add that to performance
gains and absolute scalability, and Akamai’s service looks not only
attractive, but indispensable.”
Point2’s
relationship with Akamai will eventually implement many more of
Akamai’s features than just Edgeplatform, once again raising efficiency
and security to unparalleled levels in the interest of its customers.