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Overview: Akamai is the leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability, and manageability.
Akamai's services and world-class customer care give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media and application delivery comprises more than 12,600 servers in more than 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide.
Did you know?
- The Akamai network handles billions of hits per day.
- Akamai management and employees formed The Akamai Foundation in September 2000 to foster excellence in math learning and proficiency for an Internet-centric world.
- Akamai's world-class customer service delivery organization, acclaimed by the Help Desk Institute and STI Knowledge, operates three globally distributed service centers, the innovative I.AM.AKAMAI customer portal, and provides 24x7 customer care for Web-enabled enterprises around the world.
- Akamai has delivered some of the biggest events in Web history, including 2000 Presidential Election coverage for CNN.com and MSNBC.com, and New Line Cinemas' The Lord of the Rings movie trailer, which prompted 6.6 million downloads in one week.
- Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
- Akamai's network is "fault-tolerant" or self-correcting in the event of failure. When individual servers, data centers or even entire backbones fail, Akamai continues to deliver content for its customers around the clock.
- Akamai has changed the Internet forever.
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Solutions offered by Akamai Technologies.
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EdgePlatform for Application Acceleration and Delivery by Akamai Technologies.
The Akamai EdgePlatform is an Application Delivery Network that accelerates delivery of applications and content over the Internet, which can lead to increased usage, adoption and improved productivity. Utilizing a global network of specialized servers connected through optimized protocols, the platform optimizes application and content delivery.
Akamai Application Performance Services for the Manufacturing Industry by Akamai Technologies.
Manufacturing web sites serve a dual role. Extranets keep suppliers and dealers productive and also provide media-rich B2C sites with personalized, engaging content and applications for brand-building and self service. To succeed, manufacturers like Audi, Toyota, and Nissan rely on Akamai.
Akamai Application Performance Services for the Travel Industry by Akamai Technologies.
Akamai's Application Performance Services improve reliability, performance and consistency of enterprise applications across the web. They have provided quick returns, increased bookings and enhanced customer experiences for leading players in the Travel Industry.
Akamai Digital Asset Solutions for the Media and Entertainment Industry by Akamai Technologies.
If you provide anytime-anywhere online media, you have to overcome irregular traffic, large file sizes, and unpredictable Internet conditions to deliver your media assets quickly and effectively. Akamai Digital Asset Solutions help companies such as CBS, Viacom, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Starz Entertainment Group overcome these challenges.
Akamai Dynamic Site Solution for the CPG Industry by Akamai Technologies.
Akamai Dynamic Site Solutions ensure high performance and reliability of dynamically-rendered, personalized Web sites within the CPG Industry. The solutions provide a optimized user experience encouraging consumers to browse and buy.
Akamai Dynamic Site Solution for the Hotel and Travel Industry by Akamai Technologies.
Akamai Dynamic Site Solutions offer the Hotel and Travel Industry a full product line for their Websites ensuring that today's new dynamically-rendered content is delivered with the highest levels of performance and reliability for even the most personalized online transactions.
Akamai Dynamic Site Solution for the Retail Industry by Akamai Technologies.
Providing a personalized user experience that encourages consumers to browse and buy requires richer content and applications that are assembled dynamically. Akamai's Dynamic Site Accelerator enables these interactive Web sites by providing performance that is up to five times faster than a Web site's original infrastructure.
Akamai Services for the High Tech Industry by Akamai Technologies.
Akamai solutions for high tech companies provide a high-quality user experience that improves the success of your online activities. Whether your goal is to increase downloading of electronic software or to drive greater adoption of your B2B portal, Akamai can deliver to your customers faster software and page download times across the globe.
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Research offered by Akamai Technologies
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Accelerating the Delivery of On-Demand Applications to Meet the Escalating Expectations of Corporate Customers by Akamai Technologies. November 2006 - The SaaS movement is fueled by a combination of rapidly changing customer preferences and evolving new technology. The purpose of this whitepaper is to examine the escalating service delivery requirements of the SaaS marketplace. It will also look at how Akamai Technologies’ unique managed application acceleration services address these challenges.
Benchmarking Strategies for Application Acceleration by Akamai Technologies. June 2006 - This free document helps you understand whether a given product, technology or service merits additional investigation for your particular needs. You'll learn where wide-are application slowdowns occur in your network, and how you can unclog the checkpoints.
Best Practices for Producing On Demand Video for the Web by Akamai Technologies. March 2007 - This paper will help you understand and select from the most popular video formats. It provides an overview of video processing and encoding practices that help create the best-looking video for your Web site. It also addresses the challenge of supporting dial-up users, as well as the differences between streaming and progressive download of video.
Boosting Online Commerce Profitability by Akamai Technologies. March 2007 - To thrive in the world of Internet retailing businesses must continually engage and enthrall their customers. Consumers have high expectations for Web site performance, and companies must provide the best possible user experience while managing an increasingly complex and costly Web infrastructure.
Determining the Return on Investment of Web Application Acceleration Managed Services -- an IDC Study by Akamai Technologies. January 2007 - Akamai pioneered the approach of offering application acceleration as a service rather than as a hardware-based solution. This IDC White Paper presents the results of an IDC study, commissioned by Akamai, to quantify the financial benefits of using Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator (WAA).
Highly Distributed Computing is Key to Quality on the HD Web by Akamai Technologies. September 2007 - This paper outlines the basic requirements for delivering high-definition (HD) video via broadband and describes how Akamai, through highly distributed computing, is uniquely able to extend the Internet’s capacity and deliver a consistent high-quality HD Web viewing experience—even as Web traffic grows exponentially.
Identifying the Right Media Format for Broadband Video Initiatives by Akamai Technologies. March 2007 - This paper provides a roadmap for choosing the optimal media format to improve the chance of broadband video success. Key considerations in choosing a media format are discussed, along with how these have been prioritized by the media industry. Data and trends regarding which formats certain media segments have decided upon are also presented.
Improving Rich Media Management Across the Enterprise by Akamai Technologies. October 2007 - Akamai Stream OS enables the NBA to get more from its media, by providing a simple automated solution for managing more than 45,000 media assets, assigning business policies, and publishing content to multiple distribution channels. Learn how you can turn your media assets into net profit with Akamai Stream OS.
Real World Performance Testing for Dynamic Web Applications by Akamai Technologies. June 2006 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. commissioned the Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of the company's Web Application Accelerator and Dynamic Site Accelerator, managed services that promise to accelerate Web-based enterprise-class content and business processes on a global scale.
Retail Website Performance - Consumer Reaction to a Poor Online Shopping Experience by Akamai Technologies. November 2006 - The success of online retailers in establishing a consistent, loyal customer base is due to many factors. Jupiter Research’s survey results offer insight into the actions and opinions of consumers when they encounter difficulties online. Site loyalty, duration of visits, and online purchases can be affected by sites that are frustrating and slow.
Successful Social Networking and User Generated Content Applications: What You Need to Know by Akamai Technologies. November 2006 - This white paper provides an overview of the dramatic shift in communication brought about by social networking and discusses how companies are already capitalizing on this revolution. The paper also explains the challenges of running social-networking sites, and describes how organizations can more easily deploy profitable social-networking sites.
Successfully Delivering Internet Television - Taking Advantage of the Digital Media Revolution by Akamai Technologies. February 2007 - This paper addresses the issues of containing infrastructure costs while ensuring high-quality delivery of content over the Internet, and providing quality and accessibility for consumers. It helps businesses formulate a plan for success to capitalize on alternative online distribution channels.
The Importance of Delivering a Great Online Video Experience by Akamai Technologies. July 11, 2007 - With the increased popularity of online video content, now is the time for publishers to experiment with online video as a means of storytelling and offering an enhanced experience with their Web sites. Jupiter Research's February 2007 survey of 2,319 online consumers found that 41 percent of broadband consumers seek video clips or TV segments.
Transform the Internet into a Business - Ready Application Delivery Platform for Enterprise SOA based SAP Deployments by Akamai Technologies. September 2007 - SAP and Akamai teamed up to take the approach of testing the real-world conditions impacting SAP enterprise SOA delivery by SAP via the Internet and testing how Akamai’s Web Application Acceleration solution enables the enterprise to overcome the Internet as a performance bottleneck by securely accelerating enterprise SOA-based SAP applications.
Web 2.0 is Here - Is Your Web Infrastructure Ready? by Akamai Technologies. February 2007 - This white paper outlines today’s B2C Web site trends and explains the challenges associated with dynamic content, whether dynamically generated or the result of personalization techniques. It also introduces the requirements for reliable, scalable, and secure delivery of dynamic content, so that enterprises can maximize their Web site’s value.
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