Content Delivery Companies Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Migration Report
January 16, 2012
Demand for content delivery and high speed streaming have soared in recent years and content delivery companies are vying with each other to provide extra bandwidth for high quality media. The current Paragon Report focuses on this aspect and highlights the contributions of a couple of content delivery companies.
The press release states that cloud computing appears to be the answer to boosting customer appeal and enhancing the delivery of content and applications over the Internet. In this context, the report mentions Akamai (News 
– Alert) Technologies and Level 3 Communications.
Akamai Technologies, Inc., is well reputed for providing services that improve the delivery of content and applications. Toward this end, it acquired Israel’s Contendo for $268M. Contendo, which extensively uses cloud technology…
This coupled with Contendo’s recent partnership with Akamai to provide enterprises faster Internet access and cloud-based apps will serve to complement Akamai’s technology.
Paul Sagan, president and CEO of Akamai believed that the combined technologies of Contendo and Akamai would help enterprises migrate to the cloud and help them to find solutions in an ‘increasingly mobile world.’
As for Level 3 Communications (News – Alert), its advanced IP network, high speed Internet protocol services and dedicated Internet access will play an important part in the Central Valley Next Generation Broadband Infrastructure project that cost $66.6 million. Level 3 is changing the way content is delivered by bringing together a proven content delivery platform with an industry leading Internet backbone.