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."
Boston Herald
April 7, 2005
Cambridge co. puts satellite into PCS
"Consumers can listen to XM Satellite Radio and watch Major League Baseball games on their computers via the Internet, thanks to Cambridge-based Akamai Technologies Inc."
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."
SD Times
January 1, 2004
Akamai Takes Testing to the Edge
"Testing applications to see if they will stand up to peak demand often stretches the limits of a small company's capacity. Akamai Technologies Inc. believes it has a solution to the problem by making a subset of its on-demand EdgeComputing network available for pilot projects."
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
Science News
April 6, 2002
Guessing Secrets : Applying mathematics to the efficient delivery of Internet content
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
Enterprise Systems
Mar 4, 2002
Akamai Pushes the InfoEdge
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
InternetWeek
Dec 11, 2001
Akamai Bulks Up Network Platform
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
