Akamai News & Articles

Brightcove provides the Web muscle for thousands of video content sites and recently launched its own app builder. With these two boom areas under its belt, what better time to go to the stock market?

Akamai (news, site) offers integrated cloud solutions, efficiency and improved revenue streams for customers via its new NetAlliance Partner Program.

The rise in demand for mobile applications and web applications can put a strain on data centers and bandwidth. To address the need to improve performance in cloud computing, IBM (news, site) and Akamai (news, site) have developed the WebSphere Application Accelerator, which will improve performance of web and cloud applications through distributed computing.

Cotendo, a site acceleration and content delivery network (CDN), announced the general availability of a cloud-based CDN, Cloudlet. The CDN provides better support for targeted and personalized content, a necessity for Web 2.0 style sites.

What do you get when a major cloud hosting service and a cloud optimization service team up? This partnership can probably be considered a match made in cloud heaven.

Electronic payment processors usually require several layers of security and authentication methods, and access to centralized servers. A shift to a cloud-based system can help improve transaction times and reduce the risk of exposing sensitive user data to theft or loss. With Akamai's (news, site) planned cloud-based e-payment service, token-based payments can reduce the security risk and improve performance of online payments, and will help reduce the cost of security compliance for businesses.

The Asia Pacific region is considered to be a ripe market for IT investments, particularly bolstered by the booming BPO industries in countries like China, India and the Philippines. Because of these trends, the market for cloud services and mobility is expected to expand dramatically in 2011.

Each quarter, Akamai (news, site) publishes a “State of the Internet” report. The rundown includes data gathered across Akamai’s global server network about attack traffic and broadband adoption, as well as where each country ranks in speed.

Q3’s verdict: United States, we’re not even in the top 10 (insert sad emoticon here).

Looks like a couple of companies are in cahoots to get video delivered straight to your mobile network, among other media.

That is, Akamai Technologies, Inc. and KIT digital, Inc. have combined forces in a strategic agreement. The agreement will allow KIT to package and resell Akamai solutions with its KIT VX Video Management Platform. Moreover, the agreement allows the companies to jointly market the KIT VX Video Management Platform to key Akamai enterprise customers.

It was just last month, when KickApps kicked off a video deal with Akamai.

Today, the on-demand social media and online video and widget applications provider announced that it has made it “extremely easy” for web publishers to add video advertising to their editorial and user-generated videos using the KickApps Widget and Video Player Studio.

KickApps and Akamai are teaming up to take on video publishing. KickApps brings the ability to create and manage custom video players with excellent social features. Akamai comes in with the ability to easily automate digital distribution systems while providing enterprise-level video distribution. Put them both together, and what results is an app-kicking combination!

What do you do after signing big agreements with the likes of UK-based Guinness World Records and Endemol UK? Why you open an office in Europe to service those major clients and a few more. At least that’s what social media platform provider KickApps is doing.

The delivery of content is becoming almost as important as the content itself. That’s why Clickability, a software as a service content management provider and Akamai, a global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, have announced a spiffy new partnership which aims to provide an integrated solution that will improve the speed, reliability and performance of the web sites of their shared customers in the media industry.

Almost everyone remembers The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, in which Mickey Mouse uses the complex wizarding powers of another to foible a bit but ultimately launch himself into film history. Now Modavox customers can do almost the same thing with Webcast Wizard, a one-stop software that enables clients to publish audio, video and multimedia presentations over the Internet with all the features of a spit-and-polish professional webcast.