Paper Info
Title
Beyond content delivery: applications to the edge
Abstract
CDNs have evolved beyond caching and delivery of web objects and streams. With services such as Akamai's EdgeComputing Powered by Websphere, distributed computing on a world-wide grid is now a reality for a wide range of business applications, providing subsecond response time to all users wherever they are, unprecedented levels of fault-tolerance, and massive scalability on-demand. Application resources can be provisioned in seconds, responding in real-time to changes in load on a given application. In some cases, an application can be deployed completely on the global platform without any central infrastructure. In other cases, core database and business logic remain in the enterprise data center, while the presentation layer and some database and business logic functionality can move onto the global platform. We will describe the evolution of CDNs and the challenges faced in distributing customer applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1005847.1005849
NOSSDAV
Keywords
Field
DocType
data center,fault tolerant,distributed computing,real time
Content delivery,Computer science,Computer network,Business logic,Response time,Real-time computing,Provisioning,Presentation layer,Enterprise data management,Grid,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-801-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William E. Weihl12614903.11