Akamai to Offer Scale Eight's Unique Internet Storage Infrastructure Service to Support Content Delivery Services
MediaStore is a fully managed Internet storage infrastructure service based on advanced parallel systems technology that combines hundreds of processors with thousands of disk drives. MediaStore scales to hundreds of terabytes of intelligent storage capacity, serving hundreds of millions of global Internet users. MediaStore allows customers to quickly and economically deploy terabytes of rich media files.
Akamai will use its thousands of content delivery servers located around the globe to access Scale EightSM Storage Centers as origin servers for large audio and video files. "With our customers' growing requirements for storage of rich media content, in addition to efficient and reliable content delivery services, Akamai is in a unique position to provide an end-to-end solution built upon a series of interlocking services," said Paul Sagan, president and COO, Akamai. "The advantages of Scale Eight's new technology allow us to economically add Internet-connected storage and to offer new services quickly to our over 2,100 customers."
"Our service, which sits at the core of the network, was designed from the ground up to interface with edge technologies," said Josh Coates, founder and acting CEO, Scale Eight. "This is a natural match of infrastructure services that will drive the proliferation of audio and video on the Internet." Coates added that the deal also allows Scale Eight to leverage the success of Akamai's global sales force, providing Akamai's customers with a one-stop shop for streaming media infrastructure.
Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services, together with its recently-introduced Digital Parcel Service, improve Web site speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich Web content, streaming media, and digital downloads from Akamai's globally distributed network of servers located close to Internet end users. Akamai's core technology analyzes real-time Internet conditions to deliver all forms of content and streaming media via the optimal Akamai server at the edges of the Internet, reaching end users in the fastest and most reliable way.
About Scale Eight
Using patent-pending architecture and software technology, Scale Eight has built a global storage system to manage thousands of terabytes of rich digital media. The company has closed $31.5 million in venture capital funding to date from Oak Investment Partners, InterWest Partners, CenterPoint Ventures, and a number of private investors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.s8.com or call 415.896.0788.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media and applications, serving over 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks.
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
Scale Eight is a trademark of Scale Eight, Inc.
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| Dave Donohue Scale Eight, Inc. 415-348-6864 ddonohue@s8.com |
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Agreement enables Akamai to provide rich media storage platform for its industry-leading content delivery services
Scale Eight's parallel systems storage technology gains momentum in marketplace
MediaStore is a fully managed Internet storage infrastructure service based on advanced parallel systems technology that combines hundreds of processors with thousands of disk drives. MediaStore scales to hundreds of terabytes of intelligent storage capacity, serving hundreds of millions of global Internet users. MediaStore allows customers to quickly and economically deploy terabytes of rich media files.
Akamai will use its thousands of content delivery servers located around the globe to access Scale EightSM Storage Centers as origin servers for large audio and video files. "With our customers' growing requirements for storage of rich media content, in addition to efficient and reliable content delivery services, Akamai is in a unique position to provide an end-to-end solution built upon a series of interlocking services," said Paul Sagan, president and COO, Akamai. "The advantages of Scale Eight's new technology allow us to economically add Internet-connected storage and to offer new services quickly to our over 2,100 customers."
"Our service, which sits at the core of the network, was designed from the ground up to interface with edge technologies," said Josh Coates, founder and acting CEO, Scale Eight. "This is a natural match of infrastructure services that will drive the proliferation of audio and video on the Internet." Coates added that the deal also allows Scale Eight to leverage the success of Akamai's global sales force, providing Akamai's customers with a one-stop shop for streaming media infrastructure.
Akamai's FreeFlow and FreeFlow Streaming services, together with its recently-introduced Digital Parcel Service, improve Web site speed, performance, and reliability by delivering rich Web content, streaming media, and digital downloads from Akamai's globally distributed network of servers located close to Internet end users. Akamai's core technology analyzes real-time Internet conditions to deliver all forms of content and streaming media via the optimal Akamai server at the edges of the Internet, reaching end users in the fastest and most reliable way.
About Scale Eight
Using patent-pending architecture and software technology, Scale Eight has built a global storage system to manage thousands of terabytes of rich digital media. The company has closed $31.5 million in venture capital funding to date from Oak Investment Partners, InterWest Partners, CenterPoint Ventures, and a number of private investors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, visit www.s8.com or call 415.896.0788.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media and applications, serving over 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks.
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The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
Scale Eight is a trademark of Scale Eight, Inc.
