Akamai vs Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Akamai
Based on 117 reviews.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Based on 1612 reviews.
Overview
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a content delivery network or CDN and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years their customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of this website, almost entirely invisible to the vast majority of its users.
The Hewlett-Packard Company is an American global information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It develops and provides a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by William "Bill" Redington Hewlett and David "Dave" Packard starting with a line of electronic test equipment. HP was the world's leading PC manufacturer from 2007 to Q2 2013, after which Lenovo remained ranked ahead of HP. It specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also has services and consulting business around its products and partner products.
Sample Customers
Akamai
* **Amazon** * **Apple** * **AT&T** * **Bank of America** * **Capital One** * **Cisco** * **Coca-Cola** * **Delta Air Lines** * **Disney** * **Ebay** * **Facebook** * **Google** * **Home Depot** * **HP** * **IBM** * **Intel** * **JPMorgan Chase** * **LinkedIn** * **McDonald's** * **Microsoft** * **Netflix** * **Nike** * **Oracle** * **PayPal** * **Pinterest** * **Qualcomm** * **Rakuten** * **SAP** * **Spotify** * **Tesla** * **Toyota** * **Visa** * **Walmart** * **WeWork**
Linode
Best Buy, Panasonic, Giphy, Marco Polo, World Health Organization, Font Squirrel
Akamai NetStorage
* **Amazon.com** * **Apple** * **AT&T** * **Bank of America** * **Cisco Systems** * **Coca-Cola** * **Dell** * **Ebay** * **Facebook** * **Google** * **HP** * **IBM** * **Intel** * **LinkedIn** * **Microsoft** * **Netflix** * **Oracle** * **PayPal** * **SAP** * **Siemens** * **Sony** * **Toyota** * **Visa** * **Walmart** * **World Bank** * **Yahoo!** * **Zynga**
HPE Managed Security Services
Sentry Metrics
HPE Cloud Object Storage
China Merchants Bank, Hexaware, Snagajob
Popular Solutions
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Educational Organization
37%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Government
5%
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