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Akamai Helps Adify Serve Ads to Europe in Less Than One Second, Deliver Its Portal 60% Faster, and Save Over $600,000 Annually
White Papers The company deployed Akamai Dynamic Site Accelerator and Web Application Accelerator for their solution. Founded in 2005 by online advertising pioneers from Flycast Communications - one of the original online ad networks - Adify has developed a...
[January 21, 2009, 0:00]
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 Enables Multicast Media Technologies to Increase Stream Pulls and Site Traffic by 20% and Customer Acquisition Efforts by 30%
White Papers Multicast seamlessly migrated to the Akamai Platform Migrating millions of publishing points, or streams, and live events being viewed all over the world is no small feat and the company's business model depended on a flawless execution.
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Akamai seeks to bring HDTV to the web
News Akamai on Tuesday unveiled a network for high-definition video designed to deliver content via Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight and Apple's iPhone. The company, which delivers video and applications via a 50,000 server network that moves...
[September 29, 2009, 14:49]
Akamai Helps Leading Real-Estate Company Ensure 90% Adoption Rate of On-Demand Video Content, While Increasing Agent Count by 27%
White Papers Keller Williams University deployed Akamai Media Delivery for their solution. Launched in 2002, the Keller Williams University Web site originally delivered course materials. The company later added live, instructor-led training and other content...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Akamai Helps Association of Surfing Professionals Increase Digital-Media Distribution by 15X, Entice New Sponsors and Advertisers, and Revolutionize the Sport of Surfing
White Papers ASP deployed Akamai Stream OS for their solution By leveraging the Internet as the distribution mechanism and Stream OS as the rich-media management solution, with just six crew members they can broadcast 30 contests from some of the most remote...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Akamai Stream OS Helps NBA Quickly and Efficiently Deliver Digital-Media Assets to Fans Worldwide
White Papers The NBA chose Akamai Stream OS because it's the only option that combines an enterprise-class rich-media management application with the unmatched reach and reliability of Akamai's global delivery platform.
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
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 Helps MSN Deliver More Than 65 Million Video Streams Around the World for Record-Breaking Live Earth Event
White Papers MSN deployed Akamai Media Delivery for their solution. Their long-standing relationship with Akamai not only gives them confidence that they'll deliver a great customer experience, but is critical to successfully delivering an event of this scale.
[January 9, 2009, 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]
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 Delivers Over 6 Gbps of Live Adobe Flash Video Streaming to 23,000 Simultaneous Viewers for Stickam
White Papers The company deployed Akamai Media Delivery which has enabled Stickam to support other major events, so it was an easy decision to engage them to support the KLOS event. Off late, Los Angeles-based radio station KLOS and The Mark & Brian Radio...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Victoria's Secret Web Site Raises the Bar on Customer Experience With Content Delivery From Akamai and IBM
White Papers Their choice was IBM for managed Web hosting and Akamai Technologies, Inc.the leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. In January 1999, Victoria's Secret aired its first-ever Super Bowl commercial...
[June 15, 2005, 0:00]
