Title :
The evolution of Web-caching markets
Author_Institution :
IBM Res. Div., Zurich, Switzerland
fDate :
11/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Internet businesses lose billions of dollars each year because of slow and failed Web services, and new companies and coalitions have rushed to provide the worldwide content caching that can help recapture this lost revenue. Although the media has often characterized these companies as trailblazers in the e-commerce revolution, they are merely exploiting a temporary niche along the path to Internet infrastructure commoditization and distributed e-markets. The current players have a chance to succeed, but the future belongs to innovators in the distributed storage and compute online commodities markets
Keywords :
DP industry; Internet; cache storage; electronic commerce; Internet infrastructure commoditization; Web caching markets; Web objects; distributed e-markets; distributed storage; e-commerce revolution; temporary storage; Bandwidth; Companies; Computer networks; Consumer electronics; Distributed computing; Hardware; IP networks; Peer to peer computing; Sun; Telecommunications;