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Akamai Moves Into Application Hosting
News Rather than running Web applications on internal servers, businesses can contract with Akamai or IBM to have Akamai's worldwide network of servers host the software. Akamai currently hosts Web content on its servers, speeding page downloads for its...
[May 2, 2003, 8:33]
Akamai To Purchase Nine Systems
News Akamai Technologies has signed an agreement to buy streaming-media tools developer Nine Systems in a deal valued at nearly $160m, the companies said on Monday. Under the deal, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Akamai will pay roughly $7m in cash and...
[November 21, 2006, 8:52]
Akamai, Chartered Semi IPOs Take Off
News Inktomi had $25.3m in revenue in the first half of its fiscal year, which ends this month, while Akamai had just $404,000 in revenue, and a net loss of $9.7m in the six months ended 30 June. IPO Akamai rocketed up 458 percent to 145 3/16 -- a gain...
[November 1, 1999, 11:41]
Akamai Streaming - When Performance Matters
White Papers Download this informative white paper to learn about Akamai's streaming performance measurement methodology and the results of four streaming media performance experiments. Often referred to as streaming media, Web audio and video are effective...
[August 6, 2007, 0:00]
Aberdeen Group Spotlight: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
White Papers Akamai continues to dominate the CDN service market. As an outsourced alternative to LAN-to-WAN/DMZ aggregated solutions for scalability, Akamai should be on every customer's short list. Its mature product lines, such as EdgeSuite and SiteWise...
[June 15, 2005, 0:00]
Akamai Teams With WebSphere To Offer On-Demand Edge Platform
White Papers IBM and Akamai have developed a new deployment model for J2EE Web applications. The Akamai Edge-Computing powered by WebSphere service allows application components to migrate to the edge. By extending the WebSphere programming platform to run on...
[June 15, 2005, 0:00]
The Day Ahead: Akamai Could Cache In On The Election Hubbub
News At a recent investment conference, Akamai chief financial officer Tim Weller said the company's primary job is moving the content closer to the user based on what information is most popular. That company, Akamai, is getting quite a marketing pitch...
[November 9, 2000, 12:13]
News Burst: Akamai Rakes In $12m From Apple, Cisco
News Akamai Technologies, an Internet content delivery company, said today that it has received investments from both Apple Computer and Cisco Systems. Apple said in July it would work with Akamai to integrate its QuickTime player into Akamai's service.
[August 18, 1999, 15:34]
Getting Started With On-Demand Computing: Akamai(r) EdgeComputing(sm) Powered By WebSphere(r)
White Papers Download this white paper to learn more about how the combination of Akamai EdgeComputing and WebSphere enables enterprises to get started with on-demand computing. Traditional rigid IT infrastructures can prevent companies from implementing...
[November 18, 2003, 23:00]
Akamai Pulls Al-Jazeera Web Support
News Akamai Technologies, which provided Web server services to the Arabic news network, has abruptly cancelled its contract after working only briefly with the organisation. Akamai has over 13,000 servers worldwide that store data on behalf of clients.
[April 4, 2003, 15:49]
Akamai Enables Greater Application Responsiveness With Utility-Like Solution Powered By WebSphere Software
White Papers Akamai wanted to improve market share by enabling e-commerce enterprises to quickly respond to market demands with improved Internet application performance while lowering costs. To accomplish its goals, Akamai required a common platform for...
[March 21, 2007, 23:00]
Guilty Plea From Akamai Hacker
News John Bombard, the Florida man who launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against caching company Akamai Technologies in June 2004, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer without...
[December 11, 2006, 15:03]
Florida Man Charged In Botnet Attack On Akamai
News A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against servers run by Akamai Technologies. He then used this network of hijacked computers, known as a botnet, to send a massive amount of traffic to the domain...
[October 25, 2006, 16:40]
BMW Of North America Relies On Akamai To Stream The Next Chapter Of "The Hire" Internet Films
White Papers In choosing an infrastructure provider to deliver the next chapter of The Hire, both as on-demand streaming video and digitized download movie files, the Akamai EdgeSuite service met BMW's needs for an efficient streaming delivery solution that...
[June 15, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft Invests $15m In Akamai
News Microsoft agreed to invest $15m (£9.3m) in Akamai Technologies, adding another tech giant to the list of firms that have backed the fast-growing Internet start-up. The deal, which gives Microsoft about a 1 percent take in Akamai, values the one...
[September 28, 1999, 10:24]
Fujitsu Consolidates Global Web Sites, Reaches Customers 14X Faster With Akamai
White Papers To support its worldwide consolidation project, Fujitsu chose Akamai EdgeSuite - a service designed specifically to overcome the obstacles that typically plague globally-distributed e-business efforts.
[June 15, 2005, 0:00]
P2P And Akamai Tech Combine To Expand Web
News Akamai, which speeds Net downloads by storing Web page content inside networks physically close to computer users, has sparked a whole new category of infrastructure services, for example. One of the latest remodelling ideas comes from start-up...
[February 15, 2001, 9:31]
IBM And Akamai Expand On-demand Deal
News IBM and Akamai Technologies have expanded an existing deal to let companies run business applications on Akamai's hosted Web network, as part of IBM's vision for utility -- or on-demand -- computing. The two companies are expected to announce on...
[December 11, 2003, 11:35]
Oracle And Akamai Cache In On Faster Browsing
News Oracle and Akamai Technologies have partnered to create a technology they hope will become a new Internet standard for speeding up Web browsing. The technology from Oracle and Akamai, for example, will allow ESPN.com to cache the company logo.
[April 30, 2001, 12:10]
ROI Analysis Reveals That EBags Converts 15% More Buyers With Akamai Services
White Papers They also knew that while building this supreme shopping experience, they had to keep close watch on their customer acquisition costs.eBags originally chose Akamai's services in 1999 when, after thorough testing, they found that Akamai could lower...
[June 15, 2005, 0:00]
