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Who is Akamai? Akamai® is the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. At the core of the Company's solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com and follow @Akamai on Twitter. | Jump Links |
Executive Officers
Paul Sagan, President & Chief Executive Officer
Mike Afergan, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Site Division
Robert Blumofe, Senior Vice President, Akamai Platform Division
Debra Canner, Senior Vice President of Human Resources
Melanie Haratunian, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary
Robert Hughes, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, Services & Marketing
Kumud Kalia, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Tom Leighton, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
Rick M. McConnell, Executive Vice President, Products and Development
Chris Schoettle, Executive Vice President of Business Transformation
J.D. Sherman, Chief Financial Officer
Willie M. Tejada, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Cloud Division
Bill Wheaton, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Media Division
Robert Wood, Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer
Corporate Headquarters
8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
617 444 3000
Fax: 617 444 3001
Web site: www.akamai.com
Year Incorporated
August 1998
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is Publicly Traded: (NASDAQ: AKAM)
Revenue
2010 annual revenue of $1.02 billion, up 19 percent year-over-year
Current Employees
2,300+
Network Deployment
Akamai has the most pervasive, highly-distributed cloud optimization platform with over 95,000 servers in 71 countries within nearly 1,900 networks.
Product Portfolio
DIGITAL ASSET SOLUTIONS
To enable profitable online businesses and superior media experiences for our customers by providing solutions to manage, store and deliver exceptional digital media experiences to consumers across a wide range of platforms/devices around the world.
Akamai HD Network
Provides media businesses with an HD experience that rivals television on a broadcast audience scale. This TV-like experience is managed from a single network for all major formats and encoding rates, eliminating the complexity of bringing new content online.
Akamai Media Delivery
Helps media providers deliver media assets quickly and effectively. Provides security, control, syndication and monetization of assets; and provides business insight through detailed analytics and reporting tools.
Electronic Software Delivery
Delivers any type of software over the Internet effectively and reliably.
DYNAMIC SITE SOLUTIONS
To speed up rich interactive content and accelerate all consumer-driven transactions.
Dynamic Site Accelerator
Ensures high performance and reliability of dynamically-rendered, personalized Web sites
Dynamic Site Accelerator Enterprise
Handles the most complex Web sites - increasing scale, reach, and performance rapidly without added infrastructure
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS
Akamai enables the public Internet to be the platform for accelerating any critical enterprise application to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Web Application Accelerator
Improves performance and reliability of Web-based applications
IP Application Accelerator
Provides optimized architecture for delivering all classes of IP-based applications
ADVERTISING DECISION SOLUTIONS
To enable more relevant online advertising.
Predictive Segments
Using predictive modeling based on shopping data, predictive segments - part of Akamai's Advertising Decision Solutions (ADS) line - helps customers reach in-market online consumers with display advertising in real time and at scale
Did You Know?
Akamai is Trusted:
- One out of every three Global 500® companies (List compiled by Fortune Magazine)
- The top 30 media & entertainment companies
- All 20 top global eCommerce sites
- 92 of the top 100 online U.S. retailers (Source: Internet Retailer Magazine)
- All branches of the U.S. military
- More than 150 of the world's leading news portals
- All of the top Internet portals
- 8 of the top 10 U.S. banks (Source: The Banker)
- 7 of the top 10 world banks (Source: The Banker)
- 8 of the top 10 U.S. discount brokers (Source: SmartMoney)
- 8 of the top 10 U.S asset managers (Source: Institutional Investor)
- 10 of the top 10 P&C insurance carriers (Source: A.M. Best)
- 9 of the top 10 largest newspapers
- 8 of top 10 online publishers
- 9 out of 10 top social media sites
- 3 of the top 5 semiconductor companies
- 13 of the top 15 largest auto manufacturers
- 9 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies
- 6 of the top 7 computer manufacturers
- All of the top anti-virus companies
- 4 of the top 5 online auction companies
- All major U.S. sports leagues
Akamai is Proven:
- Akamai delivers between 15-30% of all Web traffic
- Akamai delivers daily Web traffic reaching more than 5 Terabits per second
- Akamai delivers hundreds of billions of daily Internet interactions
- Akamai helps securely enable more than $200 billion in annual e-commerce for its online retail customers
- Cathay Pacific Airways increased online bookings and extranet adoption, and saved more than $1,000,000 annually through Akamai's Web Application Acceleration service
- The top online music stores have sold billions of songs… and counting… delivered via the Akamai platform
Akamai is Innovative:
- Akamai has the most pervasive cloud optimization platform - 95,000 servers in 71 countries within nearly 1,900 networks.
- 85% of the world's Internet users are within a single "network hop" of an Akamai server
- Akamai delivers IBM WebSphere at the edge – the industry's first solution enabling enterprises to consume WebSphere on demand
- Akamai has led the effort to develop open initiatives, such as Edge Side Includes (www.esi.org).
- Akamai has dozens of issued patents, and over 60 pending
- Akamai can work with any customer's Web environment, no matter how sophisticated.
| 1-800-Flowers | Logitech |
| Adobe | Longchamp |
| AdvancedMD Software, Inc. | L'Oréal |
| AirAsia | Marks & Spencer |
| All Nippon Airways (ANA) | MRO Software |
| Apple Computer | MTV Networks |
| AUDI AG |
MySpace |
| BBC Technology | Netflix |
| Best Buy | Nintendo |
| BMW Japan | NPR |
| Cabela's |
Pacific Sunwear |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | The Princeton Review, Inc. |
| Cathay Pacific Airline | Qantas Airways |
| Caterpillar | QVC |
| Clear Channel Online Music & Radio | Red Hat Inc. |
| Cognos | Rediff.com |
| David's Bridal | Reebok International Ltd. |
| Department of Defense | Research In Motion (RIM) |
| Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd | Ross Simons |
| The Dow Chemical Company | Saatchi & Saatchi |
| DYMO Corporation | The Seattle Times |
| eBags | The Sharper Image |
| Europages | Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. |
| Federal Emergency Management Agency | Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications |
| FedEx Corp. | Starz Entertainment Group |
| Finish Line | Terra Lycos |
| Food and Drug Administration | Thomson Financial |
| Fujitsu | Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch |
| FUJI TV | Toyota Motor Sales |
| General Motors | Travelocity.com |
| Harley-Davidson, Inc. | TrendMicro |
| Hitachi | Turner Sports |
| IBM Corp. | Urban Outfitters |
| International Hotels Group | Victoria's Secret |
| iYogi | XM Satellite Radio |
| J.C. Penney Company, Inc. | Yahoo! |
| Jet Airways | The Yomiuri Shimbun |
| Lands' End Inc. |
Corporate Accolades
2010 BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK 50
Akamai is #32 on the annual ranking that highlights the 50 top-performing stocks over the past five years.
2010 BUSINESSWEEK WORLDWIDE TECHNOLOGY 100
Akamai is #83 of the best performing technology companies globally (based on a weighted ranking among companies with a minimum market capitalization of $1 billion, revenues of at least $500 million, and no more than a 5 percent decline in revenues from 2008 to 2009 [calculated in local currency]).
FORBES 2009 LIST OF "25 FASTEST-GROWING TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IN AMERICA"
At the beginning of 2009, Akamai was named to this prestigious list. Companies are measured on revenues for the past 5 years, EPS growth, and a long-term consensus profit forecast of at least 10 percent, annualized.
BUSINESS 2.0 RANKS AKAMAI #1 AMONG THE "100 FASTEST-GROWING TECH COMPANIES OF 2007"
Business 2.0 states: "How big is online video and music? Big enough to catapult Akamai to the top spot. Internet traffic is surging, and companies like Apple and MTV Networks rely on the content delivery company's technology to get the digital goods to their customers."
In the same listing, Akamai was #2 in the category of Stock Returns during 2006.
Corporate & Industry PR Contacts:
Jeff Young
Senior Director, Corporate Communications
+1 (617) 444-3913
Email: jyoung@akamai.com
Helen Yang (Tse)
Public Relations Manager,
Commerce,
+1 (858) 332-3973
Email: hyang@akamai.com
Jennifer Donovan
Industry Public Relations,
+1 (650) 627-5395
Email: jdonovan@akamai.com
Rob Morton,
Senior Manager, Corporate Communications
+1 (617) 444-3641
Email: rmorton@akamai.com
International PR Contacts:
Karine Gourdon-Keller
Industry Public Relations
(+49) 89 9400-6312
premea@akamai.comVincent Leong
Senior PR Manager,
Asia Pacific
(+65) 6593-8708
prapac@akamai.com