Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) provides cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce.
Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai’s global platform aims to transform the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate.
Akamai has deployed a pervasive, highly distributed cloud optimisation platform with nearly 100,000 servers located in more than 650 cities, in 72 countries and within many of the key networks that make up the internet.
With more than 2,100 employees, annual revenue in 2010 was $1,023.6 million, up 19 percent from the previous year. Follow postings related to Akamai Technologies on tech4tea.com.
Akamai’s product portfolio includes:
Digital Asset Solutions – to manage, store and deliver exceptional digital media experiences across a wide range of platforms/devices around the world. These include Akaimai HD Network, Akamai Media Delivery and Electronic Software Delivery.
Dynamic Site Solutions – to spped up rich interactive content and accelerate all customer-driven transactions. These include Dynamic Site Accelerator and Dynamic Site Accelerator Enterprise.
Application Performance Solutions – enables the public Internet to be the platform for accelerating any critical enterprise application to anyone, anytime, anywhere. 
These include Web Application Accelerator and IP Application Accelerator.
Advertising Decision Solutions – to enable more relevant online advertising, using Predictive Segments.
[…] Akamai has released its Q1 State of the Internet report for 2011. It is a leading provider of cloud optimisation services. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Internet Platform, which carries between 15-30 percent of the world’s Web traffic, the report provides insight into key global Internet statistics such as the world’s fastest and slowest regions for connection speed, the most frequent origins of attack traffic, and the highest-performing geographies for mobile connectivity, as well as resulting trends over time. […]
[…] Akamai Technologies Hong Kong Limited, a leading provider of cloud optimization services, will be providing its Dynamic Site Delivery solutions to 6waves, a leading international publisher and developer of gaming applications. […]
[…] Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of cloud optimisation services, and Riverbed Technology, an IT performance company, will be working together to design solutions to overcome the application performance bottlenecks facing enterprises that leverage public cloud services. […]
[…] Akamai has announced that it will provide a real-time data visualization of IPv6 Web traffic served from its global platform on World IPv6 Day on 8 June 2011. The visualization will show the pattern of traffic served during the 24-hour period. […]
[…] Akamai has released its Q2 State of the Internet report for 2011. It is a leading provider of cloud optimisation services. […]
[…] Akamai has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Cotendo, a company that offers an integrated suite of Web and mobile acceleration services. […]
[…] Akamai has acquired Blaze Software Inc, a provider of frontend optimization (FEO) technology. This will complement Akamai’s site acceleration solutions with technology designed to optimize the speed at which a web page is rendered, regardless of end user device. Akamai announced today that it has acquired Blaze. […]
[…] The findings were in the Fourth Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report released by Akamai Technologies. […]