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Akamai
QuoraQuora Extends Ion Across Application Delivery
Quora, an information technology organization in the United States, uses Ion from Akamai to support application delivery for network and app owners.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because application traffic has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in application delivery sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Ion is the governed place network and app owners use for application delivery |
Story
Inside Quora, application delivery used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in information technology groups working out of the United States. Network and app owners needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Quora uses Ion from Akamai as the working layer for application traffic. Akamai operates a large edge platform for content delivery, application security, and microsegmentation. The practical change is simple: application delivery has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Quora gets from Akamai is a durable place to run application delivery and a way for network and app owners to see the same application traffic at the same time.
