Akamai Chief Scientist Tom Leighton to Address Benefits of On-Demand Computing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2003 Dr. Tom Leighton, co-founder and chief scientist of Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc., a provider of services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, will be the featured speaker during a presentation hosted by Akamai on Thursday, June 19th in Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just Northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from . Dr. Leighton will lead an interactive discussion on how businesses are using On-Demand Computing See utility computing. to deploy and scale Web applications, while simultaneously reducing Web infrastructure costs and complexities. When: Thursday, June 19 12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m. Lunch will be served Where: Marriott Bethesda 5151 Pooks Hill Rd. Bethesda, MD 20814 301-897-9400 What: An interactive discussion on how businesses are using, and can benefit from, On-Demand Computing solutions For more information, or to RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. , please call 1-888-340-4252. To learn more about Akamai's on-demand solutions for Web application deployment, please visit: http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/edgecomputing.html About Akamai Akamai(R) provides services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform See platform. , Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , Akamai's industry-leading services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com. |
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