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Akamai Expands Channel Partners Program by Adding over 25 Leading Firms
In partnering with Akamai, Web developers, application vendors, and Internet consultants, who build creative and technical solutions for leading companies worldwide, will leverage Akamai's Internet content delivery services as a means for enhancing their own eBusiness offerings. As a result, the integration of Akamai's technology ultimately benefits the content provider whose Web site will be delivered more quickly and with more engaging, dynamic content.
"We are excited to have partnered with many of today's leading Web development companies whose creative, cutting-edge products and services are shaping how successful Web sites are built and operated," said Earl Galleher, vice president of sales and distribution for Akamai. "The Akamai Alliance Partner program is fostering the development of very successful and captivating Web sites by integrating Web software and applications solutions with Akamai's global network for delivering multimedia Internet content."
Akamai's Alliance Partner program targets companies who help content providers effectively utilize the Web for their business needs. Partners include Web developers, who use Akamai's high-performance Internet content delivery services to enhance their own service offering; application vendors, who build an interface between their software products and Akamai services; and systems integrators who recommend Akamai as a solution for improving Web performance.
The Alliance Partner program has attracted Web development partners and applications vendors who are among the top companies within their target markets. Joining Akamai's current Alliance Partners, including previously announced Agency.com, Fort Point Partners and Vignette Corporation, are the following new partners:
"We are very enthusiastic about partnering with Akamai on their innovative Internet technology," said David Rosenbloom, chief technology officer, Rare Medium Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, specializing in Internet solutions, of Rare Medium Group Inc. "As the Web rapidly moves forward into richer media deliverables, we will be able to offer our clients optimized performance by leveraging the unique distributed architecture provided by Akamai's FreeFlow service."
"Akamai's technology is elegant in design, and yet simple to implement. Within a few days we had a large e-commerce site running 27% faster," said Paul Wanuga, chief technology officer at Transaction Information Systems.
"Akamai is helping to build the infrastructure of the Internet to enable efficient and effective connections, communications, content, and commerce to occur," said Mike M. Carter, vice president of corporate marketing, US Interactive. "US Interactive welcomes the opportunity to be working with Akamai in extending their technology and building eBusiness solutions that last."
Akamai Alliance Program partners are supported by a dedicated team of Akamai professionals including account managers, technical and integration consultants, and a 24 x 7 customer support team. Akamai also provides each partner with support for co-marketing, joint-selling and technical consulting.
About Akamai's services
Akamai's FreeFlowSM service is built upon patent-pending technology that speeds up Web site performance and improves reliability by delivering Internet content and applications from Akamai's global network of servers located close to Internet end users. FreeFlow provides Web site owners with faster downloads, peak crowd protection, and easy implementation with existing Web servers or site design. Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service increases the speed and reliability of streamed content. FreeFlow Streaming has the broadest support of any content delivery service for today's leading streaming formats, and supports applications including live events, continuous broadcasts and archived content for audio, video, and other multimedia.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akamai provides a global Internet content and application delivery service to leading Web properties requiring highly reliable, high performance web sites to meet their business goals. Currently, Akamai has 1475 servers deployed in 24 countries across 55 different telecommunications networks. Akamai's FreeFlow service ranked first in Network World's "The Best" issue for "category breaking" products. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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Web developers and applications vendors such as Giant Step, MMA, Rare Medium Inc., TIS, TVisions, US Interactive, and vivid studios to leverage Akamai's content delivery services
CAMBRIDGE, MA, November 23, 1999 -- Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), which provides a global, high performance service for the delivery of Internet content and applications, today announced partnerships with over 25 leading Web developers and applications vendors who have joined Akamai's Alliance Partner program. Alliance partners such as Giant Step, MMA, Rare Medium Inc., Transaction Information Systems (TIS), TVisions, US Interactive, and vivid studios are part of a growing list of companies who have teamed with Akamai to deliver a better Internet.In partnering with Akamai, Web developers, application vendors, and Internet consultants, who build creative and technical solutions for leading companies worldwide, will leverage Akamai's Internet content delivery services as a means for enhancing their own eBusiness offerings. As a result, the integration of Akamai's technology ultimately benefits the content provider whose Web site will be delivered more quickly and with more engaging, dynamic content.
"We are excited to have partnered with many of today's leading Web development companies whose creative, cutting-edge products and services are shaping how successful Web sites are built and operated," said Earl Galleher, vice president of sales and distribution for Akamai. "The Akamai Alliance Partner program is fostering the development of very successful and captivating Web sites by integrating Web software and applications solutions with Akamai's global network for delivering multimedia Internet content."
Akamai's Alliance Partner program targets companies who help content providers effectively utilize the Web for their business needs. Partners include Web developers, who use Akamai's high-performance Internet content delivery services to enhance their own service offering; application vendors, who build an interface between their software products and Akamai services; and systems integrators who recommend Akamai as a solution for improving Web performance.
The Alliance Partner program has attracted Web development partners and applications vendors who are among the top companies within their target markets. Joining Akamai's current Alliance Partners, including previously announced Agency.com, Fort Point Partners and Vignette Corporation, are the following new partners:
| AudioCast.net Click Active Media DES Dynamind Fry Multimedia, Inc. Giant Step Granitar Systems Guidance Solutions Hollyer & Schwartz Judd’s Online Micro Modeling Associates (MMA) PITARU, Inc. Preview Systems, Inc. |
R/GA Interactive Rare Medium Inc. Snickelways Interactive T3 Media The Screen House Transaction Information Systems, Inc. TVisions 12 Point Rule US Interactive vivid studios WebLinc Zooropa |
"We are very enthusiastic about partnering with Akamai on their innovative Internet technology," said David Rosenbloom, chief technology officer, Rare Medium Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, specializing in Internet solutions, of Rare Medium Group Inc. "As the Web rapidly moves forward into richer media deliverables, we will be able to offer our clients optimized performance by leveraging the unique distributed architecture provided by Akamai's FreeFlow service."
"Akamai's technology is elegant in design, and yet simple to implement. Within a few days we had a large e-commerce site running 27% faster," said Paul Wanuga, chief technology officer at Transaction Information Systems.
"Akamai is helping to build the infrastructure of the Internet to enable efficient and effective connections, communications, content, and commerce to occur," said Mike M. Carter, vice president of corporate marketing, US Interactive. "US Interactive welcomes the opportunity to be working with Akamai in extending their technology and building eBusiness solutions that last."
Akamai Alliance Program partners are supported by a dedicated team of Akamai professionals including account managers, technical and integration consultants, and a 24 x 7 customer support team. Akamai also provides each partner with support for co-marketing, joint-selling and technical consulting.
About Akamai's services
Akamai's FreeFlowSM service is built upon patent-pending technology that speeds up Web site performance and improves reliability by delivering Internet content and applications from Akamai's global network of servers located close to Internet end users. FreeFlow provides Web site owners with faster downloads, peak crowd protection, and easy implementation with existing Web servers or site design. Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service increases the speed and reliability of streamed content. FreeFlow Streaming has the broadest support of any content delivery service for today's leading streaming formats, and supports applications including live events, continuous broadcasts and archived content for audio, video, and other multimedia.
About Akamai
Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Akamai provides a global Internet content and application delivery service to leading Web properties requiring highly reliable, high performance web sites to meet their business goals. Currently, Akamai has 1475 servers deployed in 24 countries across 55 different telecommunications networks. Akamai's FreeFlow service ranked first in Network World's "The Best" issue for "category breaking" products. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
