Akamai Unveils Enhancements to Its Web Application Accelerator Solution

Akamai Unveils Enhancements to Its Web Application Accelerator Solution

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, announced today a series of enhancements to its managed services offering for accelerating Web-based enterprise applications.

New features of the Akamai Web Application Accelerator solution include a new service level agreement assuring network availability, enhanced pre-fetching capabilities, strategic global deployments, as well as the addition of real-time application performance reporting. Existing customers will automatically and seamlessly receive all these benefits without any software or hardware upgrades, or at any additional cost, a clear advantage of Akamai’s managed service over hardware alternatives.

“The Internet cannot support the performance demands of today’s business applications,” said Tom Leighton, chief scientist at Akamai. “As enterprise applications increase in value, performance and availability, as well as the accompanying insight and reporting to track and measure performance, becomes ever more critical. Faster and more reliable applications correlate to greater utilization and adoption, which in turn results in more revenue for e-commerce sites, reduced dependency on physical call centers, and greater efficiency through improved online employee, partner and supplier productivity.”

For new customers, Akamai also announced today the availability of pre-defined integrations for the acceleration of SAP, Oracle and IBM WebSphere Portal applications. These pre-built integrations provide business-to-business customers with even faster return on investment.

Continues Leighton, “Years of integration experience in accelerating our customers’ mission-critical applications, combined with our recent acquisition of Netli, positions Akamai to help enable businesses to more quickly derive value from their Web-based applications. Enterprises choose Akamai to not only improve application performance and availability, but to also minimize hardware build-out and maintenance that can delay return on investment.”

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