We performed a comparison between Akamai and IBM Cloud Video based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Microsoft, Akamai and others in CDN."With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"We can see how much traffic can be downloaded on the portal."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"I like the user interface. There aren't too many buttons that the audience will have to fiddle with."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"Their support is very slow. If you file a support ticket, it takes a long time before it gets resolved."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"It would be better if we could be notified about specific attacks."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"When we open tickets, we have a delay in response times."
"They should improve the registration gateway. Currently, you can't do a pre-event registration that's straightforward. You have to do an API to integrate. It would be a lot easier if they had that."
Earn 20 points
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while IBM Cloud Video is ranked 29th in CDN. Akamai is rated 9.0, while IBM Cloud Video is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cloud Video writes "Great user interface and easy to implement". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Amazon CloudFront and Fastly, whereas IBM Cloud Video is most compared with .
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