What is Driving the Explosion in Online Media?
Mike Afergan '05 Chief Technology Officer, Akamai Technologies
Mon Jan 29, 04:30-06:30pm, 10-105, Bush Room
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Live games from your favorite sports league, music and movie stores, and of course social networking sites – online media is becoming an increasingly prevalent aspect of all of our lives.
In this talk, Akamai Technologies’ Chief Technology Officer, Mike Afergan '05, will discuss the who, the why, and the how behind the exciting online media trends that we experience on a daily basis. Akamai delivers the content and applications for 29 of the top 30 media companies and carries 10-20% of online web traffic on its distributed computing platform of over 20,000 servers in 2,500 locations. The talk will examine the technology enabling these applications and Akamai’s approach to operating its distributed computing platform.
A Q&A session and reception will follow the talk.
Free registration below.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=9097&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Casey, W59-212, x2-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Alumni Association
Latest update: 12-Dec-2006
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