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To: HDC who wrote (1563)	11/7/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: sws2001	Read Replies (3) of 10934

Not replacing but using NTAP and AKAM The NTAP 720 filer is positioned within the datacenter. All of a WEB site's content is stored. The content can be databases (e.g. Oracle or SQL ), image, HTML or PDF pages. NTAP allows for multi-protocol access (e.g. UNIX and NT ) A Web site would use AKAM to distribute parts of STATIC content to locations around the world (e.g typically images) The purpose of this is reduce the need to go back to the WEB site at the datacenter. The WEB content company would need less server power and less data access power of its primary site. However dynamic information must be created at the Web site each time. For example an EBAY query is dynamic or your banking transaction data is dynamic in nature. These are not good candidates for AKAM. Some banner pages and static image/gifs are good AKAM candidates. The Elvis graphic described here would not be constantly accessed from the NTAP. It most likely would be in some cache memory. The keypoint of this article is that images, which are STATIC data being served by AKAM, not content!! This is typical of many NET articles; how people who do not fully understand the technology. AKAM is not a competitor to NTAP or IIS. AKAM is a value added product. The data is stored on a NTAP; is must be served via IIS or Apache web server. So AKAM is not a replacement for storing all data or serving all data but a performance boost accessing STATIC data across the world. As I understand the article, the author will use NTAP for storage and AKAM to minimzie browser access to images. I am an IT manager of a Web search service; use NTAP 760 and long term NTAP holder

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