Akamai CDN vs. IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network

Akamai CDN

Akamai CDN

70 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network

IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai CDN	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers Akamai Connected Cloud, a content delivery network (CDN) with a variety of services used to guarantee application, API, and media delivery.	N/A
IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM now supplies a CDN via IBM Cloud, via their partnership with Akamai, the IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network.	N/A

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Akamai CDN

IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network

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Akamai CDN	IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
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Community Pulse
	Akamai CDN	IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Considered Both Products	Akamai CDN Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN pioneer in the CDN with stellar reputation Enterprise-grade solutions Incentivized Helpful? PRABHAT MISHRA Senior Devops Engineer Chose Akamai CDN Akami CDN was far better than Amazon CDN, I don't see much security aspect on Amazon Cloudfront Due to which we moved to Akami. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN I don't have any direct experience with any of the other CDNs, so it's hard to say. Like any solution out there, each service will have its pros and cons. Some will fit your business needs more than others. Akamai is amongst the best and meets our business needs. Incentivized Helpful? Vaibhav Choksi Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce Chose Akamai CDN Akamai is a leader in CDN domain with adaptive media delivery and download delivery and it helps work by reducing the distance between your website and your target audience. It also provides 24X7 support services. Incentivized Helpful? Phillip Holder Consultant - Senior Business System Analyst Chose Akamai CDN I am just getting into AWS at work and it will be difficult to supplant the incumbent Akamai solution as there is simply nothing wrong with it - from my point of view. I suspect we will be looking at integrating Akamai/AWS solutions in the future as the effort and or business … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN Akamai offers sophisticated security and defense layers in addition to its content delivery network. Its focus on security is well known and beats offerings from AWS and Azure to punches. It redefined the cloud security market by extending its core offering. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Chose Akamai CDN We've used -- and considered -- a whole number of CDN offerings. The good news is that almost all of the CDN products on the market are terrific, and will pay for themselves via increased customer satisfaction and lower monthly hosting bills. For some cases, we're still more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN I have not evaluated or used any direct competitors for Akamai, so it's hard to say how it compares. All I know is that Akamai is very powerful and has now become an integral part of our existing set-up. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Rooney Developer Chose Akamai CDN I haven't had much experience with other CDNs and to be honest I haven't heard of many more other than Akamai which just goes to show which one is the most trusted and proves to be the best. There are others out there, such as Cloudflare, that claim to provide a similar service … Incentivized Helpful? Schyler Manning Staff Software Engineer Chose Akamai CDN CloudFlare and CloudFront are good for small sites where budgetary costs are the primary concern but Akamai Ion provides a new level of quality and performance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Akamai CDN CloudFlare is much easier to use. It is much cheaper and from our experience, it works so much better. The support staff at CloudFlare has always been helpful and will get on the phone when we need help. Also, CloudFlare helped us get set up on their platform in about an hour … Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network No answer on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Akamai CDN	IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Amazon CloudFront Score 7.0 out of 10	Amazon CloudFront Score 7.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Akamai CDN	IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai CDN	IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai is a superior premium services offering if that's what you need from a CDN. For more typical use cases, we're often more often than not implementing MaxCDN, or integrated CDNs from cloud providers (e.g. CloudFront, Azure CDN, etc). If you find that Akamai's offerings are really what you need, and you are okay paying the premium, the services themselves are great. There's a reason they're used by major enterprises of all sizes, and used for hosting video content from the NFL, etc. Incentivized Joshua Dickson Director of Engineering Read full review	The IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network is well suited for web applications that have a distributed worldwide audience. Modern web sites load a lot of assets, such as javascript and css, that can be sped up significantly with it. Incentivized John Reeve Co-founder, Lead developer, Lead designer Read full review
Pros	Caching is one of the greatest benefits that Akamai allows for, saving time, money and experiencing the user experience. Knowing they provide DDOS and other attack protection gives you peace of mind. How finely you can tune all of the different settings available to you, from blocking IPs, cache settings, headers, redirects and even handling error statuses . Incentivized Adam Rooney Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Akamai platforms does not come with an intuitive UI to configure and it requires training for set up. Akami is mostly costly and will be proven very expensive for small organization that are not scaled. Akami activation takes a longer time for a lot of testing with multiple scenarios especially with edge servers scenarios. Incentivized Vaibhav Choksi Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Akamai offers sophisticated security and defense layers in addition to its content delivery network. Its focus on security is well known and beats offerings from AWS and Azure to punches. It redefined the cloud security market by extending its core offering. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Positive - Akamai vastly reduced the number of content delivery servers needed here, saving money, hardware and management overheads. Negative - I don't think it's a "cheap" option, but also, you get what you pay for and for such a powerful product you don't expect it to be free. Positive - some of the support we have had has been really good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It has reduced load on our servers so we can reallocate server resources to our web app IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network has sped up response times for our app and made customers happier Incentivized John Reeve Co-founder, Lead developer, Lead designer Read full review
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