New Service Spans More Than 700 Cities and
Over 4,300 Points of Presence on World's Most Distributed Cloud
Platform
CAMBRIDGE,
Mass., Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing
company that powers and protects business online, today announced a
Managed Container Service designed for companies that want to
deliver better experiences by running workloads closer to users,
devices, and sources of data. Significantly advancing Akamai's
cloud computing strategy, the new service is enabled across the
700-plus cities where Akamai servers are located, with more than
4,300 points of presence. Akamai is currently testing Managed
Container Service with customer applications in over 100
cities.
"Our new Managed Container Service leverages the
entirety of Akamai's global presence, which means customers can
take advantage of Akamai's 700-plus cities to run and scale their
workloads," said Adam Karon, Akamai
COO and GM, Cloud Technology Group. "As with other services on
Akamai Cloud, businesses can maintain predictable costs as their
applications scale. This is a critical capability as we strive to
become a key platform in enterprise multicloud environments."
Akamai's Managed Container Service enables
businesses to run data-intensive workloads closer to end-users. The
solution can take advantage of Akamai's full-stack cloud computing
infrastructure, including GPUs and VPUs, object storage, managed
database service, and the full complement of network services. This
is important for business critical workloads that serve high
volumes of concurrent users while enabling predictable performance.
Managed Container Service bundles a customer's application code
together with the related configuration files, libraries, and other
dependencies the app requires to run.
"Today's modern applications require high
performance, low latency, and scalability," said Dave McCarthy, Research VP, IDC. "The Akamai
Managed Container Service, part of the Akamai Cloud, underscores
Akamai's commitment to providing enterprises with highly responsive
infrastructure for delivering a consistent user experience whether
their applications run in a central cloud region or across Akamai's
4,300 globally distributed cloud and edge locations."
About Akamai
Akamai is the
cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects
business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior
threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in
depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere.
Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance
and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global
enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading
reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business
with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act
This press release contains statements
that are not statements of historical fact and constitute
forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor
provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995, including, but not limited to, statements about the potential
benefits of the Managed Container Service to Akamai and its
customers. Each of the forward-looking statements is subject to
change as a result of various important factors, many of which are
beyond the company's control, including, but not limited to:
Akamai's services and capabilities failing to meet expectations,
including due to defects, security breaches, delays in performance
or other similar problems; changes in market conditions and
receptivity to our products and services; our ability to develop
and release new products and services and successful enhancements,
features and modifications to our existing products and services
effects of competition, including pricing pressure and changing
business models; impact of macroeconomic trends, including economic
uncertainty, turmoil in the financial services industry, the
effects of inflation, rising and fluctuating interest rates,
foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, securities market
volatility and monetary supply fluctuations; continuing supply
chain and logistics costs, constraints, changes or disruptions;
defects or disruptions in Akamai's products or IT systems,
including cyber-attacks, data breaches or malware; changes to
economic, political and regulatory conditions in the United States or internationally; and
other factors that are discussed in the company's most recent
Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent quarterly reports on Form
10-Q and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. All information provided in this press release is as of
the date of this press release, and Akamai does not undertake any
obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as
required under applicable law.
Contacts
Akamai Media Relations
akamaipr@akamai.com
Akamai Investor Relations
invrel@akamai.com
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