CEVision.org
January 6, 2012
Cloud playing bigger role in digital entertainment
“There’s an explosion of endpoints, all of these new devices that are creating new opportunities and challenges on how you get media, software and sites to all these devices securely.”
IT Business Edge
Monday, November 28, 2011
Looking Beyond Cyber Monday
According to statistics compiled by Akamai, the days between Dec. 13 and Dec. 17 still generally generate more online traffic volume.
CNN Money
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Cyber Monday outlook: big deals, record sales
Lelah Manz, chief strategist of commerce at Akamai (AKAM), cited the rise of tablet computers in the last year as a major game-changer in e-commerce.
The Boston Globe
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Online retailers brace for Black Friday rush
With Internet shopping expected to reach a record of nearly $60 billion this holiday season, a cluster of Boston-area companies, from Akamai Technologies Inc. to Sapient Corp., are working behind the scenes to make sure retail websites can handle the sudden surge of traffic.
Cloud Computing Journal
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Achieving the Most from Your Cloud Computing Strategy
An exclusive Q&A with Willie Tejada, Senior VP, Enterprise Cloud at Akamai
SearchEnterpriseWAN
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Deploying Akamai's Web application acceleration on a private WAN
SKF has been using Akamai Technology's Intelligent Internet Platform inside its firewall to speed up internal Web applications for nearly eight years, according to Richard Olivecrona, SKF's director of new ventures.
FierceTelecom
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Partnering for Internet success: Bobby Blumofe on Akamai's unique approach
It's been an interesting decade for Akamai, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company that has had a hand in the growth of the Internet's capability in handling media and downloads. Bobby Blumofe, senior vice president and general manager of Akamai's Network Division, has been there since the company's beginning in 1999, when he led the performance team and was one of the Akamai network's chief architects.
Internet Retailer
Thursday, September 15, 2011
An online arms race rages between attackers and defenders
It's a challenge for any web retailer to keep up with the attack methods, because they are continually evolving. While many web site operators know about distributed denial of service attacks in which criminals take control of many consumers' computers and flood web sites with traffic, it's not only the volume of traffic that can take down web sites, says Michael Cucchi, director of product marketing at Akamai Technologies Inc., a content delivery network that earlier this year introduced Akamai DDoS Defender, a service designed to protect web sites from distributed denial of service assaults.
Boston Globe
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Akamai: Traffic to media websites surged on earthquake news
Traffic to news websites serviced by Akamai Technologies Inc. surged 25 percent above normal levels shortly after media outlets began issuing reports that an earthquake centered in Virginia had shaken the Eastern Seaboard, Cambridge-based Akamai said today.
BBC News
Monday, August 22, 2011
Libya starts to reconnect to net
Libya's internet connections appear to be slowly coming back online after a six-month blackout.
CSO
Monday, August 8, 2011
Lessons in security leadership: Andy Ellis
The 2011 CSO Compass Award winners discuss prioritizing investments, learning lessons the hard way, and much more
Chain Store Age
Friday, June 24, 2011
Is Your Site Fast Enough to Be Noticed?
Google, others factor site speed into search rankings
U.S Census Bureau
Friday, June 21, 2011
Census Bureau Recognized by Computerworld For Customer Service Innovation
The U.S. Census Bureau last night was named one of the top five 2011 Laureates for Business Responsiveness by International Data Group's (IDG) Computerworld Honors Program.
CIO
Friday, June 06, 2011
Qantas flies with Akamai for website performance
In the competitive airline industry, website availability and performance are vital
CNBC
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Defending Against Cyber Attacks
The cyberattack that took down Sony's online network is a reminder of the dangers the world network systems are facing. Eamon Javers of CNBC, is in Akamai's Command Center in Cambridge.
CNET
Friday, April 29, 2011
Royal wedding a top destination for Web users
According to global CDN provider Akamai, "early data" has revealed that the number of concurrent users streaming the royal wedding around the Web outstripped the highest peak of concurrent users who watched the World Cup last year.
Associated Press
Friday, April 29, 2011
Live streamed royal wedding reigns on the Web
Akamai Technologies Inc., which delivers about 20 percent of the world's Internet traffic, said that global page views for the roughly 100 news portals for which it delivers content peaked at nearly 5.4 million a minute Friday morning.
CyberMedia India Online (CIOL)
Friday, April 08, 2011
CIOL Video Interview with Akamai's Co-founder and Chief Scientist,
Tom Leighton
Tom Leighton, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Akamai Technologies, talks about his journey from MIT to Akamai, his outlook for India
CyberMedia India Online (CIOL)
Friday, April 08, 2011
Why enterprises need multi-layered defense architecture
Here, we look at the Key challenges faced by customers in the area of cloud computing
Business Insider
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Internet Is Running Out Of Space -- Here's Why That Matters
The Internet is running out of unique addresses, and big Internet companies like Akamai, Google, and Facebook want businesses to pay attention.
The reason: if businesses continue to ignore the problem, the innovation that has defined the Internet industry for the past 15 years could come to an end.
BizIT
Monday, March 21, 2011
Tackling the challenges of the Net
It's a funny thing - for all the Internet's leaps in progress over the past decade, its challenges and objectives have remained the same, said Akamai Technologies co-founder Tom Leighton.
ZDNet Asia
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Akamai: Neverending end to 'world wide wait'
In 1998, Tom Leighton partnered with graduate student Daniel Lewin to start a company which vision was to end the "world wide wait." Akamai has since grown to become a billion-dollar company and one that is gunning to touch US$5 billion in revenue by the close of the decade. Yet the company has remained true to its original vision and is, in a way, "still at the beginning", said Leighton.
Silicon Angle
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Akamai Launches Cloud Tool for Speedy Game Downloads
Akamai, a cloud optimization service, has launched a new solution for game publishers called Electronic Software Delivery for Gaming. It's a specialized solution that leverages Akamai's existing network to enhance an end user's game download experience, with an increased download completion rate. In other words, Akamai's helping games download faster. Akamai's new delivery system is comprised of the Akamai Download Manager, Akamai Download Analytics and HTTP delivery, combining to create a unified solution targeting the rapidly expanding game niche.
ZDNet UK
Friday, February 18, 2011
Akamai details pervasive cloud defenses
"Akamai's highly distributed, multi-network platform makes it possible for enterprises to combat today's internet threats in a unique, innovative way that no centralised solution can offer," Bruno Hourdel, Akamai's product line director for International, said in a statement. "Hackers are increasingly targeting companies and websites with more sophisticated and coordinated attacks."
BankInfoSecurity.com
Friday, February 18, 2011
Information Security Management Group (iSMG) Interviews Akamai at RSA 2011
Video of Akamai's Senior Product Marketing Manager Michael Cucchi being
interviewed by Tom Field, Editorial Director at International Security
Management Group (iSMG) from the floor of the annual RSA Conference
Bloomberg Businessweek
February 10, 2011
Empire-Building at Akamai
Akamai Technologies has been a rumored takeover target 21 times since 2005, more than any other company, according to Bloomberg data. Chief Executive Officer Paul Sagan insists nobody there is paying attention
Fortune
January 23, 2011
The world's fastest Internet access—who's got it?
New research ranks the countries with the fastest Internet connections, and all
50 U.S. states too.
ZDNet" Blog
January 13, 2011
Rackspace and Akamai to speed transfer of cloud files
Rackspace Hosting and Akamai have announced a strategic relationship to boost
the transfer speed of files stored in Rackspace's cloud files service to
consumers worldwide.
MITX "What's Next" Blog
January 10, 2011
Predicting the Biggest Trends and Innovations for 2011
Guest post by Mike Afergan, CTO & SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions at
Akamai
The Boston Globe
December 20, 2010
Playing Defense on the Net
Business feature story illustrates Akamai's ability to respond to DDoS on
behalf of its customers
USA Today
December 10, 2010
Big retailers repel attacks similar to WikiLeaks-related denial of service
capers
Akamai disclosed to Technology Live that it
blocked a wave of co-ordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
that were intricately designed to block Web traffic from reaching five major
Internet retailers for several days.
AdExchanger
November 22, 2010
Akamai CTO Mike Afergan Says Data Showing Shopping Behaviors Earlier
In Q4 Than Ever
Mike Afergan, CTO & SVP of Advertising Decision Solutions at Akamai
recently spoke to AdExchanger.com about his company's Online Shopping Data
Visualization tool and recent insights.
Associated Press
November 02, 2010
Internet, mobile at forefront of election coverage
Internet, mobile no longer merely a supplement to TV-newspaper coverage of election
GigaOm
October 19, 2010
Akamai State of the Internet: Mobile Web's Explosive Growth
In 1999, it was the rapid growth of wired web services that was the top story. Fast-forward to today, and it's the massive and seemingly unstoppable growth of the mobile Internet that's all the rage. The demand for mobile Internet (and its subset, mobile web) is upending all expectations and predictions. Between Apple and Google, about 500,000 new portable Internet devices are getting connected to the Internet.
The Boston Globe
October 14, 2010
Taking a different measure
Akamai Technologies is keeping a careful eye on its greenhouse emissions.
CSO Online
September 27, 2010
Akamai releases 'game changing' cloud-based payment service
In what the company CSO calls a cloud-computing game changer, Akamai Technologies has released its Edge Tokenization electronic payment security
service.
Internet Retailer
July 8, 2010
Akamai strives to burst through with faster mobile sites
With its acquisition of Velocitude, a company that specializes in transforming web content to render properly on mobile devices, Akamai Technologies Inc. is out to make it easier to process m-commerce burst sessions, such as finding a store's location in less than 30 seconds.
Forbes
July 1, 2010
Akamai: Funneling Bits, Foiling Hackers
High-speed data network Akamai is the Internet's fast lane. Now it also wants to be its highway patrol.
GigaOM
June 24, 2010
Akamai "Doing Terabit Events" (Thanks, World Cup)
What do banks, soccer fans and smartphones have in common? They're all part of what's shaping Akamai Technologies' business, according to CEO Paul Sagan, who joined Om for a fireside chat today at Structure 2010. Sagan explained that Akamai, which delivers some 20 percent of global Internet traffic, is working with a growing number of financial services firms, it's delivering massive amounts of traffic for World Cup matches in HD and it's "trying to do website transformation on the fly" to improve the interface on mobile phones.
Information Week
May 5, 2010
Akamai, IBM Speed Web App Delivery
The "Akamai Ready" initiative, a multi-phase collaboration between Akamai and IBM announced at the IBM IMPACT 2010 conference in Las Vegas, aims to provide IBM WebSphere customers with an easier path to deployment and higher levels of functionality on the Akamai network.
The Daily Journal
April 26, 2010
Global company to expand locally
Akamai Technologies, Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., currently employs about 250 people in San Mateo and is set to hire another 50 to 70 people locally by the end of the year. Akamai is a leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online and earned $859.8 million last year. The company employs more than 1,800 people globally.
Information Week
March 16, 2010
Netflix Taps Akamai For Video Distribution
Akamai observed that most of its servers are located less than 100 miles from end users, enabling Netflix to bring its content close to the edge of the Internet. "This delivery approach improves the performance and reliability of HD files," Akamai said in a release. It further described its technique as resulting in "an uninterrupted, smooth playback viewing experience."
Zacks
March 16, 2010
Netflix Picks Akamai for Streaming
Netflix chose Akamai's global distribution platform for its highly scalable performance and storage capacity to ensure uninterrupted streaming of hundreds of thousands of movies and TV episodes during peak times. We believe that the High Definition (HD) quality video over the Internet should help drive bandwidth requirements through 2010, driving demand for Akamai's services. This increase is expected based on the fact that overall online video revenue will grow as the number of U.S. online video viewers continues to expand.
The Boston Globe
March 16, 2010
Netflix taps Akamai
"By the end of 2009, almost half of the 12.3 million Netflix members had instantly watched a movie or TV episode on either a computer or TV via a Netflix ready device. Netflix projects that number will grow dramatically this year and in the years to come. Netflix chose Akamai's global distribution platform for its highly scalable performance and storage capacity to ensure uninterrupted streaming of hundreds of thousands of movies and TV episodes during peak times."
Home Media Magazine
March 16, 2010
Netflix Selects Akamai for Streaming
"We chose Akamai as our primary content delivery network because we need a strong partner to deliver movies instantly and to be able to meet our ever-increasing demand," said Andrew Rendich with Netflix, in a statement.
Network Computing
December, 2009
Akamai Reveals Web Acceleration Innovations
Decades old Internet routing and transport protocols were created for text and are inefficient at handling packets of voice, video, and graphics content, especially at today's transmission rates. Choked pipes and the rapid increase in traffic further degrade performance. Add to that the risks introduced by network outages due to severed communications links. All this can cause a lot of frustration for customers who are trying to access business services and content over the Internet. At an event titled 'Edge Distribution and the Trends shaping the Future of the Internet' organized by Network Computing for Akamai Technologies, Internet specialists revealed some innovative approaches round these challenges.
GigaOM
September 21, 2009
Akamai Expands Into Virtual Desktop Delivery
Akamai has developed a managed service for optimizing the delivery of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) over WANs.
Internet Retailer
September 15, 2009
The new page-loading threshold: 2 seconds
The study, conducted on behalf of Akamai Technologies Inc., a provider of technology that helps web sites serve up content more quickly and reliably, also found that 40% of consumers will wait no more than three seconds for a web page to render before they abandon a site.
The Drum
August 26, 2009
Configurator created for Jaguar Land Rover
With Akamai, Jaguar Land Rover will be able to offer superior site performance on a global scale, while minimising the resources required at their data center. This ends up being the best of both worlds for their end users and operations teams.
Network Computing
July 2009
The Cloud Computing Framework
Dr Tom Leighton, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Akamai Technologies provides a framework that gives structure to the different offerings in the cloud computing space.
Barron's
July 2009
Akamai Feeds Need for Speed
The former dot-com darling survived the Internet bubble and has become a crucial part of the online ecosystem.
Internet Retailer
May 2009
Personalization can enhance the online shopping experience
Personalization is becoming an increasingly important consideration when redesigning an e-commerce site. Many online retailers are providing a more personalized shopping experience by cordoning off strategic areas of a home page or product page for product recommendations or changing the landscape of a page based on where a shopper lives.
Network World
March 2009
Accelerating the cloud: Akamai, OpSource partner
Akamai Technologies is teaming up with OpSource, which provides managed hosting services to software makers that want to outsource their Web infrastructure and application management. The joint agreement adds Akamai's tools for optimizing application delivery to the mix, so that OpSource customers can accelerate their cloud-based applications. "By using our joint solutions, SaaS ISVs can focus on what they do best, which is developing software," Rubinson says. "They don't have to worry about their infrastructure, and they don't have to worry about how their offering is being delivered in the cloud."
Beet TV
February 2009
Akamai CTO: Adaptive Streaming from Adobe and Microsoft Will be Big in 2009
Akamai, the global distributor of Internet content and applications, is working closely on adaptive streaming with both Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe is making its own move into adaptive streaming, which it calls "dynamic" streaming. Microsoft is expanding its use of adaptive streaming in its Silverlight rich media web plug-in. Adaptive & dynamic streaming allows high quality streaming video to play properly over Internet connections of ranging connection speeds.
Xconomy
January 2009
Obama Inauguration Breaks Streaming-Media Records
This afternoon, we can report that record-breaking audiences accessed these streams, at least as far as Cambridge, MA-based networking leader Akamai was able to measure. At the height of Internet traffic at approximately 12:15 p.m. Eastern time (during Obama's inauguration speech), more than 7 million simultaneous data streams were being delivered over Akamai's network, according to the company. Most of these streams carried live video, with total traffic peaking at a vertiginous 2 terabits per second. That makes today Akamai's busiest day ever-and by extension, probably one of the highest-volume days in the history of the Internet, since Akamai handles about one-fifth of all Internet traffic globally, giving the company a representative view of network activity worldwide.
Deccan Herald
January 17, 2009
Akamai sees potential in India
Akamai Technologies, web application acceleration and performance management services provider, in a bid to tap the Indian market has revamped its go-to-market strategy. Akamai, which has been following direct go-tomarket strategy to tap customers in India, is now planning to go indirect through partners to double its customer base this year.
British Computer Society (BCS)
December 2008
Transforming the Internet
Overcoming the root causes of slow and unpredictable web-based application response times is a business-critical challenge for today's IT manager. Poor performance leads to low adoption rates, ineffective business processes, high abandonment rates and poor user satisfaction. Malcom Rowe examines why application performance solutions address the root causes of 'middle mile' bottlenecks to transform the internet into a high-performance and reliable application delivery platform.
Broadcasting & Cable
November 24, 2008
Web Sports Enters HD Arena
Another limitation is consumer broadband speeds, though they are steadily improving, according to data from leading content-delivery network Akamai, which delivers Web streams for ESPN360.com, NFL.com, NBA.com and MLB.com. Akamai's internal tracking shows that 26% of U.S. broadband connections today are faster than 5 Mbps, and 64% are faster than 2 Mbps. "We're at the tipping point where the majority of people are over the two-meg threshold," says Tim Napoleon, Akamai's chief strategist for digital media, who expects to see more and more HD streaming for sports. "A lot of broadcasters have a complete HD workflow now, and it's very easy to take that and repurpose it to HD for the Web."
Internet News
November 17, 2008
Narrowband on the Decline in the U.S.
According to Akamai's third-quarter State of the Internet study, narrowband penetration numbers are down as higher connectivity speeds continue to proliferate across the U.S. and globally. The company, which maintains a content delivery infrastructure with edge servers throughout the world -- giving it a good look at how and how often users connected to the Internet -- found that in the U.S., penetration for connections of 256 kilobits per second (Kbps) or slower declined 29 percent during the quarter. As a result, U.S. narrowband penetration dropped to 5.8 percent.
Beet TV
November 6, 2008
Akamai Debuts New Ad Solutions Service
Akamai Technologies has landed IAC and Hearst as the first clients for Insight for Publishers, the first product in its new Advertising Decision Solutions line, the company announced Monday. The offering, bolstered by data from the recently acquired acerno, will help advertisers target attractive audience segments.
CNET
November 5, 2008
Election Spurs Record Traffic to News Sites
Intense interest in the outcome of the U.S. presidential election helped drive record traffic to news sites, according to Akamai Technologies. At 8 p.m. PST, just as word was coming that Barack Obama had won the election, Akamai's Net Usage Index showed more than 8.5 million worldwide visitors per minute to the company's aggregate set of news sites. Not all of the traffic, of course, may have been specifically to election coverage, but the relative audience size in the index does correlate strongly to particular events.
Beet TV
October 28, 2008
Microsoft Teams up with Akamai for High-Def Video Solution
Microsoft and Akamai Technologies will release a beta version of a high-definition video solution for PCs in early 2009, the companies announced today. Both companies are introducing new streaming technologies to make the new service possible. More details will be discussed later this morning when Microsoft Director of Media and Advertising Evangelism Eric Schmidt speaks at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable today (Oct 28) in New York. The program begins at 9 a.m. EDT and ends at noon. Microsoft will adapt video quality to server connection speeds with its Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming technology, making it possible for the video to start instantly without buffering. Akamai AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight, which will be available in beta to select customers in early 2009, will build upon that technology.
Akamai & JC Whitney in STORES
September 01, 2008
Speed Sells: Faster Page Loads Drive Increasing Revenues for JC Whitney
Through solutions from Internet technology giant Akamai, auto parts marketer JC
Whitney & Co. discovered that adding a little bit of speed to a website can result in lots
of additional revenue. It has boosted page-load speeds by 50 percent, leading to a 10
percent increase in conversion rates.
JC Whitney implemented Akamai's solutions just before the 2007 holiday season and
was able to get up and running in a few days. It saw page-load times drop even as it
rang up record-breaking holiday sales on site traffic that increased 40 percent.
Next Generation
June 30, 2008
Kuma Goes Global with IBM, Akamai Deal
New York-based Kuma Games is a small company, but a new partnership with IBM and
content delivery firm Akamai may help the 40-person studio operate like a larger global corporation."We decided that we needed to be a global company, but we're not a big group," Kuma CEO Keith Halper told Next-Gen. "We have lots of games, but we are still
relatively small in terms of the number of people that work here." Kuma is perhaps best known for Kuma\War its free, upto-the-minute episodic games that are based on world
conflicts. It also has released games in conjunction with the History Channel and Spike
TV.
InformationWeek
May 31, 2008
Web Video: Make It YourTube
Akamai, one of the original CDNs, is one; nearly every time you talk about alleviating Internet bandwidth bottlenecks, its name arises. What Akamai has managed to do by being early and outlasting others is to put servers in thousands of POPs around the world, where it caches oft-accessed video content closer to the viewer. Some of Akamai's many competitors claim this approach will hurt it in the long run. Maintaining expensive infrastructure in so many POPs will hardly scale, the argument goes. But Akamai continues to provide a compelling array of services, including its recently announced partnerships with transcoding companies like Telestream, Origin Digital, and Multicast Media Technologies, which will give video publishers a one-stop shop for video delivery.
GigaOM
May 29, 2008
Report: State of Broadband, According to Akamai
Akamai Technologies' new State of the Internet report, released today and likely every quarter has some interesting findings about the state of the broadband around the world. Through our globally deployed server network and by virtue of the billions of requests for Web content that we service on a daily basis, Akamai has a unique level of visibility into the connection speeds of those systems issuing the requests, and as such, of broadband adoption around the globe. Akamai data shows that South Korea is the leader in delivering what the Massachusetts-based CDN provider calls, high broadband. It means connections that connect to Akamai's at speeds exceeding 5 Megabits per second. Nearly 64% of South Korean connections qualify as high broadband.
The Boston Globe
May 29, 2008
Akamai issues new Internet report
Akamai, a Cambridge company that provides services designed to accelerate and improve the delivery of content and applications over the Internet, today announced the release of its inaugural "State of the Internet Report," with plans to issue new reports quarterly. Beginning with the January to March 2008 time period, Akamai said its reports will include data on the origins of attack traffic, network outages, and de-peering events, as well as a look at broadband connectivity by geography; Akamai will also use the reports to document trends seen in this data over time.
USA Today
May 29, 2008
Delaware fastest state
More people per capita are using high-speed Internet access in Delaware than in any other state, says a report out today from Akamai. The Cambridge, Mass. company makes computer servers and other equipment that helps power the Internet behind the scenes. During the first three months of the year, about 60% of Delaware residents who used the Internet -- and whose Net connections passed through Akamai's vast network -- had fast connections of greater than 5 Mbps.
Fortune
May 12, 2008
Meeting the Net's Need for Speed
A decade ago Akamai (AKAM, $31) was not much more than a handful of scientists at
MIT trying to come up with an approach that would rid the Internet of congestion. The
only glitch was that in 1998 there wasn't any congestion on the Internet. Today, of
course, it all makes sense. The Internet is getting jammed as more people conduct their
business, find information, or simply get entertained online. The Akamai team's foresight
and the solutions they have concocted are now a business that booked $636 million in
sales in 2007, with a profit just north of $100 million. The company, based in Cambridge,
Mass., was No. 48 on our 2007 list of fastest-growing companies and is projected to
break $1 billion in revenue in 2009 Not bad for an outfit that solved a problem nobody
knew we had.
InformationWeek
March 19, 2008
Madness On Demand: Future Of TV
MLB streams hundreds of baseball games, sometimes as many as 15 at a time, so it has the infrastructure in place to handle MMOD which has, at most, four games going at a time at its peak. MLB takes feeds from the broadcast center to its office via a dedicated circuit, encodes it, inserts ads, then hands it all off to Akamai which provides content delivery services. CBSSports and Akamai plan capacity scenarios for months. Fernandes pointed out that the biggest challenge here is that you only have one chance to get it right, whereas other applications (like fantasy football) can work out the kinks over time. CBS Sports has to model and predict the behavior of hundreds of thousands of users. Fernandes said that utilization is kept at about 75% but during peak times it can get as high as 90% or 95%, where strict throttling is absolutely necessary.
Xconomy
January 30, 2008
Akamai Helps Patriots Gear Up for Super Bowl
For Cambridge, MA-based Akamai, the Super Bowl has already started. Among the customers of the networking and content-distribution giant are both the NFL and the undefeated New England Patriots—and the Patriots' official website has been overflowing this week with press-conference video and other material from Phoenix, AZ, where the team arrived on January 27 and is now preparing to do battle with the New York Giants in this Sunday's game. Making sure that content streams out to site visitors smoothly, whether they're watching from Topeka or Tanzania, is Akamai's job.
USA TODAY
November 26, 2007
Cyber Monday really clicks with consumers
Online shoppers snapped up bargains, and Web retailers found reason to cheer Monday as traffic to many of the largest shopping websites soared 37% over last year's so-called Cyber Monday, says Akamai Technologies, which helps online retailers handle large crowds. The National Retail Federation says cybermonday.com, a website it set up for store promotions, had three times as much traffic the Monday after Thanksgiving as it did last year.
Boston Business Journal
November 26, 2007
Cyber Monday shoppers set Web record
Shoppers took their purses to the web in record numbers, as "Cyber Monday" web traffic peaked at almost 3 million hits per minute, according to research from Akamai Technologies Inc. The Akamai Net Usage Index for Retail reports a 37 percent spike in North American Web traffic to retail customer sites at 2 p.m. on the first Monday after Thanksgiving, compared to the same time in 2006.
Beet.TV
October 26, 2007
Akamai to Launch HD Portal
A new era of high definition online video will begin on Monday when Akamai launches a showcase portal for videos from customers including the BBC, NBA, MTV and others. The term HD has been bantered about quite a lot in the context of Web video. But by our understanding, "true" high def means full-sized, 720p, 1080i and 1080p. As far as I know, these files have not been distributed via stream or downloads.
Information Week
October 19, 2007
SAP Speeds Up NetWeaver For Services Over The Internet
The company revisits Internet speedup technology for its new Enterprise Services Community Networking Lab via a partnership with Akamai. In 2006, SAP experimented internally with an Internet speedup technology for enterprise applications from Netli. Then Netli was acquired last February for $177 million by Akamai Technologies. Now, SAP is teaming up with Akamai to apply Akamai's acceleration service to its customers' SAP applications when they're implemented to perform as services.
Network World
October 11, 2007
Akamai brings application acceleration to the data center
New service optimizes any IP-based application, not just those that are Web browser-based
Interest in application acceleration technologies is heating up -- and fast. In the last newsletter I mentioned briefly a new Gartner report that predicts end-user spending on application acceleration equipment will grow by nearly 40% in 2008, reaching $3.3 billion.
Network World
October 8, 2007
Akamai unveils IP application accelerator
Akamai announced today that it is expanding its Web application acceleration services to include any IP-based application, including VoIP. Akamai, a content delivery network service provider based in Cambridge, Mass., has been delivering Web application acceleration services since 2005. However, the company's new IP Application Accelerator is its first product that covers every enterprise application delivered over IP. Neil Cohen, product line manager at Akamai, says the new service will allow companies to speed up all of their IP applications, reduce their operating expenditures and boost productivity.
The Online Reporter
September 1, 2007
Akamai to Enable Web for DVD and HD Video
Akamai made two announcements this week. One is that in general it intends to optimize its content delivery
network to support the delivery of DVD and HD-quality video. Akamai
is the largest content delivery network with over 25,000 servers installed in ISPs in 750 cities in 70 countries. It describes its service as delivering from the "edge" of the Net, as close to the
consumer as it can get.
Wired Blog
August 29, 2007
Akamai Eyes Web Video's High-Def Future
Akamai's content distribution network (CDN) is built to handle large, bandwidth-intensive video files. In addition to VC-1 and MPEG-4 video standards, the network can also support High-def content played back at 720p, 1080i and even 1080p. We're talking about video files that exceed 2 gigabytes in size.
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2007
Akamai: The Connective Tissue
The company already handles billions of web interactions. And its technology could become important to the video game industry. As has been well publicized, in-game advertisements are big business and are continuing to soar. Some expect it to become a $1 billion dollar business by 2011. One very large component of that is the ability to serve ads online, dynamically.
Standard & Poor's
July 9, 2007
Akamai to Join S&P 500
Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASD:AKAM) will replace Biomet Inc. (NASD:BMET) in the S&P 500 after the close of trading on Wednesday, July 11. Biomet is being acquired by a private equity consortium in a tender offer scheduled to expire on or about that date, pending final approvals.
Network World
July 5, 2007
Diagnosing the health of the Internet
Real-time maps showing the "health" of the Internet, including its speed, traffic numbers and the rate of attacks, are now freely available to the public from Akamai, which operates a distributed computing platform that handles much of the world's Web traffic.
Wall Street Journal
June 20, 2007
Marketers Seek a Banner-Blindness Cure
With live streaming video, for instance, marketers must plan the event, record it into a TV format, beam it up to a satellite, download it, encode it in a digital format and broadcast it live over the Internet. "There are teams of people devoted to this, from the lights-camera-action to the digital coding, to the behind-the-scenes capacity planning," says Suzanne Johnson, senior product marketing manager for digital media at Cambridge, Mass.-based technology company Akamai, which helped GE broadcast its live video ad on the Web.
San Francisco Business Times
June 15, 2007
Akamai sees big growth, competition
Akamai runs the plumbing -- the data centers, servers and services -- that keeps Internet traffic flowing. The 8-year-old public company is based in Cambridge, Mass., but much of its fastest-growth is coming from bandwidth-hungry digital entertainment and media firms in the Bay Area such as Yahoo and CNET. For Apple, it runs all the storage, music downloads and content delivery for the popular iTunes store.
The Boston Business Journal
June 01, 2007
Akamai surges as tech titan
Akamai, once a flashy startup, has quietly become one of the biggest tech companies in the state. It posted revenue of $429 million in 2006 and is closing in on its goal of hitting $1 billion in the next few years. Revenue surged 53 percent to $139 million in the first quarter, while profits soared 73 percent to $50 million.
Beet TV
May 15, 2007
Akamai Makes Big Move Into Live Streaming Flash Video
Earlier today, Akamai announced a new initiative to offer live video support for Flash video playback. The giant content distribution network (CDN) company said the new initiative supports On2 Technologies VP6 Codec used in Adobe's latest Flash Player. This is another indication of the imminent proliferation of live streaming Flash video.
Forbes Magazine
April 06, 2007
Video Prophet
Paul Sagan has ridden hard over the wildest extremes of the Internet economy. In 1999 he stumbled into a $700 million fortune--on paper--by joining a brilliantly conceived startup called Akamai, which provided superfast digital delivery services to dozens of new Web sites. Then Sagan watched as the dot-com boom blew up. Akamai's Web site customers went bust, and Akamai plunged toward bankruptcy. Shareholders filed ten lawsuits, alleging a stock swindle. And then came the worst blow of all: Daniel Lewin, the brilliant young founder at the heart of the company, was killed by terrorists. Akamai (from the Hawaiian word for "clever") seemed destined to become another casualty of the dot-com calamity. But six years later it has made an audacious comeback.
InfoWorld Magazine
March 19, 2007
Your Web site's secret weapon
Kenexa's experience reveals the new face of the CDN (content delivery network). During the dot-com boom, CDN providers such as Akamai harnessed their huge network overlay infrastructure to cache and deliver static Web pages to millions of consumers. On today's Web, however, static pages are more the exception than the rule, so CDNs have added compression, traffic shaping, intelligent routing, and network optimization to accelerate everything from software downloads to video streaming, corporate Web applications, b-to-b transactions, and two-way Web 2.0 interactions. "The term 'content delivery network' is really outdated," says Kieran Taylor, Akamai's director of marketing. "Our vision is around accelerating all business online."
BusinessWeek
September 15, 2006
Traffic Cops Of The Net
For weeks, techies were abuzz with speculation about Apple's (AAPL ) plans to move into movies. And at a Sept. 12 announcement, CEO Steven P. Jobs didn't disappoint, telling a packed audience of journalists in San Francisco that Apple will begin by offering downloads of Walt Disney Co. films. But for many investors, an equally intriguing story has been the company that will make sure all those billions of video bytes don't bring Apple's iTunes Web site to a grinding halt.
Sales & Marketing Management Magazine
September 1, 2006
Survival Instinct
In the corner of an outdoor office courtyard next to a grassy knoll grows an unassuming sapling that easily blends in with the other trees surrounding it. But upon closer inspection, this tree is different; at its roots lays a plaque that reads: "In memory of our founder, leader and friend, Danny Lewin, May 14, 1970 to September 11, 2001."
nypost.com
June 4, 2006
Having Survived Bubble, Moment Arrives for 'Net Vid Firm
Soccer fans that can't watch the World Cup on television, beginning this Friday, will no doubt be flocking to the Internet to catch up on the action via streaming and on-demand video. While the fans, no doubt, will be rooting for many different country's teams, a vast majority of them will have the games delivered to them by just one team: Akamai Technologies.
eWeek.com
April 24, 2006
Super Services = Superhighway
Opinion: Internet companies like Akamai have evolved beyond mere content-delivery services into full-fledged business partners who can make sure your content gets there on time.
When people used to call the Internet an information superhighway, they emphasized its openness to all and its ability to connect anything to anything. Many who used the expression had an agenda of ensuring universal info-highway access, and this has been largely accomplished in developed nations like the United States.
Mass High Tech
March 27, 2006
Big Blue exec is 'already an evangelist' at Akamai
Don't be fooled by the grassy hula-girl lamp in J.D. Sherman's office at Akamai Technologies Inc. Sherman started a serious new job last week.
After a 15-year stretch at Big Blue, Sherman is now the chief financial officer of the storied Cambridge-based, MIT-borne Internet content delivery company. In November 2005, 40-year-old Sherman was hired as a CFO-elect until outgoing CFO Robert Cobuzzi, 64, retired this month.
USA Today
February 7, 2006
USA Today: Super Bowl ad watchers make a run for Web"
Super Bowl XL is history, but the ad game is an overtime with the battle for attention online. Just five years ago, the great hope of most Super Bowl advertisers was to have their brand names remembered a day after the game. Now, a growing number are measuring Super Bowl ad success by the number of day-after hits on their websites - and the number of times their commercials are watched or downloaded via computers, iPods or cellphones.
E-Commerce Times
January 31, 2006
E-Commerce Times: Executive Q&A with Tom Leighton, "E-Businesses Face Critical Challenges"
Enterprises today have a number of key questions when it comes to setting up and maintaining an online presence. Some of these concerns include critical Web-related security problems; scalability; and being aware of new online challenges expected in 2006.
Billboard
January 28, 2006
Billboard Magazine - CEO Q&A
"The digital entertainment industry has been kind to Internet network-services provider Akamai. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company operates a "distributed network" of more than 16,000 servers worldwide that it uses to more effectively route Internet traffic to and from its clients' Web sites."
AlwaysOn
January, 2006
The AlwaysOn Power List
"AlwaysOn publishes four top lists a year; one for each print blogozine we publish. In the Spring issue, we'll unveil the OnHollywood 100, representing the top digital technology companies in entertainment, media, and advertising. Our Summer issue features the Open Media 100, which identifies the power bloggers, social networkers, toolsmiths, and investors leading the open-media revolution. In the Fall, we publish the AO100—a list of the planet's most innovative private companies across all technology sectors. In this issue, we proudly introduce the first annual"
Business 2.0
June 15, 2005
A Star Is Reborn
"Akamai (AKAM) CEO Paul Sagan is -- once again -- ready to speak confidently about the future. An Emmy Award-winning television producer turned high-tech exec, he's putting the finishing touches on his company's arduous turnaround: In the first quarter, Akamai's profits climbed 386 percent to $14.1 million; revenue grew 24 percent to $60.1 million. Both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are loyal clients. Yet even now, the memory of the ordeal Akamai endured in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks remains so vivid that Sagan chokes back tears as he recalls the experience. "You'll have to excuse me," he apologizes. "It's still hard, even after all these years."
Industry Week
June 1, 2005
On Demand Computing -- IT On Tap?
"That's the question manufacturers may be asking as they kick the virtual tires of a relatively new concept called utility computing. The idea is that, similar to the way it obtains water, natural gas or electricity, a company would simply turn a switch and be able to access whatever computing power and software it wanted and pay only for what it uses."
IEEE Security & Privacy
May 2005
Holistic Security
"Tom Leighton, a founder and chief scientist at Akamai Technologies, as well as professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, grapples with troubling Internet security issues daily. Keeping Akamai customers safe from denial-of-service attacks, for example, gives Leighton an unusual and thorough view of the state of US cybersecurity."
eWeek
May 3, 2005
Akamai Unveils Web Application Accelerator
"Akamai has created a managed service aimed at speeding up Web-based enterprise applications. The company's Web Application Accelerator can be used for a variety of applications, Akamai Technologies Inc. noted, including customer-facing portals, collaboration platforms, e-learning environments and business-to-business commerce applications. Although other application acceleration technologies exist in the market, Akamai is banking on the attractiveness of the managed-service angle, which requires less reconfiguration of applications than an on-site product might require."
Network World
May 2, 2005
Akamai Accelerating Web-based Apps
"Akamai Technologies this week is expected to launch a service that promises to improve the performance of Web-based applications for business customers. The content delivery network (CDN) service provider intends to announce its Application Accelerator Service. The service is designed to improve the availability of Web applications, as well as make it easier to geographically disperse these applications around the world."
InfoWorld
May 2, 2005
Akamai Service Speeds Apps
"Akamai Technologies this week will roll out a new managed service designed to bump up the performance and scalability of Web applications. The Web Application Accelerator service allows enterprises to extend Web applications such as collaboration, portals, and SCM to the Akamai platform. The service taps Akamai's network of servers in combination with several technologies including dynamic mapping of requests to the most optimal servers, end-to-end route optimization, and flexible caching, which enables caching of dynamic content. The platform also includes SSL support, access-control integration, and connection-optimization via compression, content pre-fetching, as well as transport-protocol optimization."
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2005
Satellite Radio Streams On
"First it was satellite radio providers XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: XMSR) and Sirius Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) carving up the major car manufacturers to make their system the exclusive model upgrade or factory installation. Then the battle carried over to portable receivers to make the components available at home as well as in the car. Now the battle of the brands is moving online -- and Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) is making sure that XM comes through loud and clear."
The Boston Globe
April 3, 2005
Surviving as backbone for the Net: Paul Sagan, chief executive, Akamai Technologies Inc.
"Paul Sagan, 46, president of Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge since 1999, took over Friday as its chief executive. Akamai, whose vast network of Web servers delivers Internet content for other companies, said on March 16 that it would acquire a competitor, Speedera Networks Inc., for $130 million. Sagan, a former broadcast journalist and three-time Emmy Award winner, spoke with Globe reporter Robert Weisman at Akamai's offices."
CNET News.com
February 22, 2005
Flash on demand from Akamai, Macromedia
"Akamai Technologies and Macromedia on Tuesday announced a media-streaming technique designed to let users more quickly view online graphic and video content."
Internet Retailer
February 9, 2005
Akamai sees 275% increase in traffic to web sites of 22 Super Bowl TV ads
"Few things can drive a traffic surge to a web site like national TV exposure on a scale of the Super Bowl's. In anticipation of major spikes to their web sites as the result of advertising that ran during the Super Bowl broadcast, 22 companies including Volvo and FedEx used the services of content delivery accelerator Akamai Technologies to keep page downloads, availability and applications up to standard, the company reports."
Washington Post
September 30, 2004
Akamai Strives For a Safer, Speedier Net
"It was dark and eerily quiet here Monday in the network command center of Akamai Technologies Inc., an unusual company whose mission of easing Internet traffic jams gives it a clear view of what's happening on the Internet."
Internet Retailer
August, 2004
How web services, on-demand environment speed retailing and marketing deployments
"Succeeding at retail today means multi-channel sales. The priority of doing business online more efficiently, more productively, and more creatively than the competition has never been higher."
CIO Magazine
August 1, 2004
The Executive's Guide to Utility Computing
"Pay-as-you-go computing means a lot of things to a lot of people. Use our pass-along guide to explain to your CEO what it is—and is not."
Computerworld
July 15, 2004
How to Improve J2EE Performance and Reliability
"As more companies utilize the Internet in their business, Web applications have come into widespread use. These Web applications are typically delivered via tools such as load balancers, HTTP Web servers, caching servers, messaging systems, transaction-processing monitors, application servers and databases."
Washington Technology
June 7, 2004
Tech Success: Accenture, Akamai make IRS.gov less taxing
"Content delivery network eases site's load, boosts security "
CIO Insight
June, 2004
Strategic Technology: Utility Computing - Back to the Future
"Distinguishing utility computing from the same old outsourcing, hosted applications and services deals isn't easy. But it's time to start making the effort."
eWeek
April 26, 2004
Formula for Success: Survivor Akamai Shows It's All About the Services
"More sales per second at a lower cost. Now that's an idea that would warm the heart of even the most cold-hearted bean counter ."
Federal Computer Week
March 16, 2004
2004 Federal 100 Winners - Keith Johnson
"Talk about weathering a storm. Keith Johnson was instrumental in keeping information flowing to the public when Hurricane Isabel hit the East Coast in September 2003."
Internet Retailer
February 11, 2004
Reebok.com's "Terry Tate, office linebacker" strikes again
"Athletic shoe manufacturer Reebok has streamed its commercials on Reebok.com before, but last year's Super Bowl TV ad, the first to be so tightly integrated into its marketing efforts, drove millions to its site. Building on that, Reebok has been able this year to drive similar traffic to Reebok.com in the same timeframe--without having to run a spot during the Super Bowl, says Marc Fireman, director of interactive marketing."
RIS News
January, 2004
Running with Spikes
"Nike.com has over twenty Nike brand sites; brand marketing sites that are heavily experiential. Nike's director of consumer direct IT Tony Bacos cites ATG (Art Technology Group), EDS and Akamai as the "big three" technologies behind Nike's online operational success."
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2003
Surf's Up for Akamai
"After two gnarly years, Akamai is once again attracting investors. Of course, we've taken this ride before. Either we're catching the next wave or headed for another wipeout. Tim Beyers thinks it just might be time to take a ride."
CNET News.com
December 10, 2003
IBM, Akamai shake on hosting deal
"IBM and Akamai Technologies have expanded an existing deal to let companies run business applications on Akamai's hosted Web network, part of IBM's vision for utility--or on-demand--computing."
Info World
December 11, 2003
IBM, Akamai boost J2EE app development
"IBM Corp. and Akamai Technologies Inc. have developed software that makes it easier for users of Akamai's computing platform to deploy Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Web applications that are written using IBM's WebSphere software."
internetnews.com
December 11, 2003
IBM, Akamai Delve Deeper Into On-Demand
"Looking to advance their on demand computing strategies, IBM and Akamai Technologies on Thursday released the EdgeComputing Toolkit for Websphere Studio."
Network Computing
November 25, 2003
Akamai's Got Your Network
"Akamai Technologies is getting into the management game. The company is letting enterprise network managers tap into its content-delivery network so they can gauge how their applications are performing across the Internet."
InfoWorld
November 10, 2003
Akamai builds on-demand strategy
"Adding a missing piece to the on-demand computing puzzle, Akamai Technologies this week will unwrap a set of tools and services for managing applications and content across the Internet."
Internet Retailer
October, 2003
Consumers want a richer experience—and retailers better be ready to deliver
"In online retail speak, gone is the 8-second wait-time rule — the length of time Internet shoppers of three years ago were willing to wait for web page downloads before abandoning a site. Today's online buyers expect sub-second response time, and they're getting it."
Internet Retailer
July 25, 2003
How the new Macys.com got heavier graphics, but speedier page delivery
"With redesigned pages that emphasize larger images with a new zoom feature for viewing fine details, Macys.com is focusing on the speed at which shoppers can download its web pages. 'We're making a major investment in a coding effort to assure the speed of our site,' president Kent Anderson tells InternetRetailer.com. He adds that he expects the increased speed to boost sales."
Network World
July 21, 2003
TV stations dial in app service
"Internet Broadcasting Systems, which operates Web sites for television news stations around the country, has used Akamai Technologies' content delivery network for years to speed the delivery of static and dynamic content and to reduce the load on its origin servers. It also has pushed out streaming video and video on demand to the CDN."
Wired Magazine
June 10, 2003
Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes.
"'Gah!' Owen Maresh almost choked when the Priority 1 alert popped up on his panel of screens just after midnight on Saturday, January 25. Sitting inside Akamai's Network Operations Control Center, the command room for 15,000 high-speed servers stationed around the globe, he had a God's-eye view of the Internet, monitoring its health in real time. His job was to watch for trouble spots and keep Akamai's servers - and the sites of its clients like Ticketmaster and MSNBC - open for business. This was big trouble."
internetnews.com
June 6, 2003
Q&A: Akamai Chairman and CEO George Conrades
"Akamai burst on the national IT scene in 1999 with an eye-popping IPO and technology that addressed a growing problem -- slow download times."
Network World
May 13, 2003
Akamai helps make IBM edgier
"Content delivery specialist Akamai Technologies has been talking about running applications and Web services at the edge of the Internet for some time. In fact, the executives at Akamai say they have viewed their content delivery network as a perfect platform for distributed computing right from the start."
CNET
May 1, 2003
Akamai, IBM promise zippy Web services
"Akamai and IBM plan to unveil a service Thursday that they say will speed the delivery of Web-based business applications."
eWeek
May 1, 2003
IBM Beefs Up "On Demand" Offerings
"IBM Corp. Thursday announced a set of software offerings to bolster the company's e-business on-demand strategy. Much of the new functionality will revolve around IBM's WebSphere application server, including the expansion of an agreement with Akamai Technologies Inc., Cambridge, Mass., to accelerate the 'on demand' nature of IBM's offering by speeding up response time to business opportunities and providing fast access to Web applications from global locations."
Mass High Tech
September 26, 2002
Akamai's Conrades appointed to President's advisory committee
Network World
August 19, 2002
MTV gets "Edgier" with Akamai Service
Washington Technology
August 12, 2002
Akamai Shakes Up USGS Web Site
"Internet Broadcasting Systems, which operates Web sites for television news stations around the country, has used Akamai Technologies' content delivery network for years to speed the delivery of static and dynamic content and to reduce the load on its origin servers. It also has pushed out streaming video and video on demand to the CDN."
CIO Magazine
June 15, 2002
E-Business: Payoffs and Partnerships
Some Businesses Save Big Headaches and Dollars By Outsourcing E-Biz Infrastructure and Services
Network World Web Acceleration Newsletter
May 22, 2002
Akamai keeps taking it to the edge
InfoWorld.com
May 8, 2002
Akamai, IBM team up for edge computing
InternetWeek.com
May 1, 2002
Toyota Hires Akamai And IBM For Hosting, Content Delivery
Network World Fusion News
April 8, 2002
Ad firm sold on Akamai as net accelerator
eWeek
April 1, 2002
Internet Insight: ESI Does It
Mass High Tech
Mar 26, 2002
Akamai helps FBI break down bottleneck doors with EdgeSuite deal
Boston Business Journal
Mar 26, 2002
FBI rolls out Akamai technology
Government Computer News
Mar 4, 2002
Load Balancing
Federal Computer Week
Mar 4, 2002
A call for reinforcements: CDC responds to surge in Web traffic with more servers, outside help
CFO.com
Feb 1, 2002
Should It Stay or Should It Go?
InternetNews.com
Jan 14, 2002
Digex Offers Akamai Content Solution
Network World
Jan 14, 2002
Akamai Looks to Boost Intranet Delivery Speed
Government Computer News
Jan 7, 2002
Security Takes a Pragmatic Turn
Computer Reseller News
Dec 10, 2001
Akamai Adds Security, Failover Options For Content Caching Service
Network World
Dec 10, 2001
Akamai availability-protection service keeps eyes glued to Victoria's Secret site
