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Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
Akamai is a well-established brand name with a great product. It meets and many time exceeds the needs for global content delivery and security management layer at the edge. Fine grain security tuning seems cumbersome as the definition of the app keeps changing. It also requires an investment of time for the setup which doesn't necessarily make sense for smaller scale scenarios. Some products offered by AWS, Azure or the Google Cloud can be more tightly integrated with cloud provider offerings thus easier to configure.

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Engineer in Engineering
Retail Company, 10,001+ employeesBlueCat Address Manager
It can act as a reasonable DNS and DHCP solution if money allows you chose to have a dedicated (virtual) appliance.

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Director in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesPros
Akamai
- Content offloading - once rules are set up within Akamai you don't need to even think about how many images or large JavaScript or CSS files (for example) are being served from your own estate, Akamai takes care of it all via rules that are quick, easy and flexible.
- Page caching - for pages that don't change very often Akamai allows you to set up rules, quickly and easily, to serve up your page content for you, which takes even more load away from your origin servers.
- Quick rollback - the Akamai system allows easy testing of rules and changes via a staging system, and also offers a quick rollback option, which is perfect for the rare occasions when something has been set up incorrectly.

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Manager in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 5001-10,000 employeesBlueCat Address Manager
- IP management
- DNS server
- TFTP

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Director in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesCons
Akamai
- The interface in their control centre could be a bit more user-friendly with some of the settings in places that you wouldn't expect them to be. The search offsets this problem to an extent but it's still sometimes slower than you'd like to find what you are looking for.
Developer
M and M DirectRetail, 501-1000 employees
BlueCat Address Manager
- GUI interface could use some touch-ups. For example, saving a configuration is not the easiest thing to do.
- Hypervisor compatibility (currently doesn't support Nutanix AHV).
- Not too many KBs publicly available.

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Director in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
Akamai
Akamai 8.5
Based on 4 answers
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.

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Employee in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employeesBlueCat Address Manager
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
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 likely to suggest CloudFlare (which has a free tier) or an integrated offering from a cloud provider, like Cloudfront.
Director of Engineering
NorthOutComputer Software, 51-200 employees
BlueCat Address Manager
For all it's worth, it's a Linux based appliance and does offer a high availability design. It does offer IP address management and can scan your network through ICMP and SNMP. It does support role-based access controls for admins.

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Director in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesReturn on Investment
Akamai
- Akamai RoI improved over a period of times since it comes with heavy costs, however global deliveries in over 100 counties and global web platforms usage helps improve RoI
- With the complex UI challenges, ROI could be impacted negatively when you have to invest in operations and time.
Senior Product Manger, Digital Commerce
Dell TechnologiesComputer Hardware, 51-200 employees
BlueCat Address Manager
- CONS: Not up to speed with market-leading virtualization technologies such as Nutanix.
- PROS: Reliable solution.
- PROS: The design can be confusing for the folks used to Infoblox as it utilized 1 controller called Bluecat Address Manager and the actual DNS/DHCP servers named BDDS.

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Director in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employeesPricing Details
Akamai
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
BlueCat Address Manager
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No