Akamai Technologies Global Traffic Management Cassandra Risk Assessment

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a global content delivery network, cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Akamai's Intelligent Edge Platform is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms.

Akamai's Global Traffic Management (GTM) service is a fault-tolerant solution that makes intelligent routing decisions based on real-time data center performance health and global Internet conditions to route online user requests to the most appropriate data center using an optimized Internet route for that user at that moment. Akamai uses Apache Cassandra as a distributed fault-tolerant data store within their infrastructure.

DataStax recommended RhinoSource to Akamai to perform a risk assessment of their open source Apache Cassandra implementation, evaluating how well the implementation allows Akamai’s ability to achieve its key Quality of Service (QoS) goals. RhinoSource investigated production issues and made forward-looking recommendations for cluster tuning, performance, capacity planning, operations management, security and best practices for software development.