Akamai Quarterly Newsletter | Q4 2011

Akamai EDGE 2011 was the largest gathering of Akamai customers, business partners and technology leaders — EVER.

Keynote presentations focused on the challenges, visions and best practices for innovating in a hyperconnected world, and we were proud to feature presentations from leading companies. ASOS.com, Cisco, EMC Corp, Ericsson, Facebook, Harley-Davidson, Hertz, IBM, News Corporation, Quanta Computers and Rackspace Hosting all shared valuable insights with often overflowing audiences.

The topics were as varied as the challenges we face, but each demonstrated that doing business online—and doing it well—is accelerating in importance.

Over three days, attendees gained valuable insight from not only the keynote speakers, but from other Akamai customers and Akamai experts. Industry and technical tracks, along with a pre–conference "Akamai University" workshop proved very informative to attendees as well. Also featured was a preview of the upcoming new Akamai customer portal—a product created largely with the help of direct customer feedback.

Akamai executives also shared their vision for their own role in the hyperconnected world: to deliver any experience, to any device, anywhere. And to push innovation "Faster Forward" both internally, and with customers.

There was so much activity it was easy to miss some of it. Presentations, on-demand videos, and other content from the conference can be found in our presentation archives.

This year's conference saw a significant increase in attendees from global enterprises and cross-vertical organizations; demonstrating a clear, seismic shift in how organizations across all industries are spreading their information and intelligence online. In part, it's recognition that we no longer "go online," rather, we are always online and increasingly, nearly every part of any business features an online component. Akamai joins today's business innovators in the shared goal of delivering any experience to any device, anywhere. Below is a breakdown of attendees from this years conference. Major industry groups were varied and well represented; attendees were able to share knowledge not only vertically, but horizontally as well.

Presentations contained so much valuable material; we received numerous requests for copies, videos and further in-depth materials. So we created an on-demand library featuring videos and presentations and the files have been posted here. Whether you attended EDGE or not, we encourage you to peruse the materials as well as share them with friends and colleagues. Be sure to revisit from time to time, as we'll be posting additional materials as well.

Conference attendees had the opportunity to meet face to face with Akamai experts to gain first hand insight into Akamai solutions. Discussions covered the most frequently asked questions on a range of topics including personalized site assessments. Attendees discovered firsthand how to:

Stream Video to Any Connected Device with a simplified live and on-demand overview of the workflow required to reach audiences who are using today's most popular connected devices.

Assess Web Site Performance in Real-Time using Akamai's Web Monitoring tools to identify performance bottlenecks.

Evaluate Site Security from Web Attackers with a deep investigation of the security of their Web sites; how frequently they’re attacked and what can be done to protect them.

Validate User Identity in the Cloud using Akamai's Identity Management Application, originally developed for the Akamai Intelligent Platform by the Akamai Public Sector team.

Identify Web Site's Reach, determining where your site traffic is coming from, and evaluating preparations to scale as your site becomes more popular.

To learn more about how Akamai can help solve these or any other technology issues, visit our Knowledge Base, an online resource to address the most frequently asked technical questions from Akamai users.

Please note, to access the above links you will need your Akamai system administrator login details

Throughout the conference, attendees could visit The Customer Experience Kiosk to get an up close and personal demonstration of the upcoming, fully-redesigned EdgeControl Portal. The design overhaul is inspired by over 12 months of feedback from customers. The EdgeControl portal now features more intuitive and flexible reporting, a cleaner navigational layout and most importantly, more user-provisioned control. You can view preliminary designs here and continue to provide input on our feedback page. Please note, to access the above links you will need your Akamai system administrator login details.