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Akamai Helps McAfee.com Support Flash Crowds from ILOVEYOU Virus
McAfee.com uses FreeFlow for the delivery of over 50% of its online virus protection applications and its rich web content. FreeFlow has been instrumental in protecting McAfee.com from the flash crowds it has been receiving since Thursday as a result of the ILOVEYOU virus. During the first 24 hours after the virus struck, McAfee.com began receiving massive amounts of traffic from visitors who were in search of protection. With the FreeFlow service in place, McAfee.com supported a record-breaking 4.6 million hits to its Web site. McAfee.com's virus signature files, which contain protection from the virus, were also heavily accessed on Thursday. FreeFlow enabled McAfee.com to quickly and reliably deliver more than 500,000 downloads of virus protection software files that first day.
"Akamai was a critical component for McAfee.com during the chaotic days of the ILOVEYOU virus," said Doug Cavit, vice president of information technology, McAfee.com. "The powerful combination of Akamai's service with our highly scalable architecture allowed us to handle with ease the unprecedented spikes in traffic that amounted to more than five times the normal average. Our users are thrilled with the reliable service and support they've gotten from McAfee.com throughout this ordeal. What can I say? We love Akamai."
"Dealing with this virus has been a successful joint effort on the part of both Akamai and McAfee.com," said Earl Galleher, vice president, worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "This is just one of the many examples where Akamai's peak crowd protection paid off immensely. We are happy to have helped McAfee.com ensure that its end users were able to access their site, irregardless of the traffic demand, and download virus protection quickly and reliably."
In addition to the performance increases that FreeFlow brought to McAfee.com, the company saw great value in Akamai's Traffic Analyzer tool. "On Thursday evening, Akamai's Traffic Analyzer tool provided us with detailed, useful information from the events of the day, enabling us to determine from which of our files the highest percentage of traffic was coming. As a result, we were able to plan for the changes in capacity and bandwidth necessary for the remaining days in which the virus was still present, allowing us to continue to bring our customers top-notch service," Cavit added.
About McAfee.com
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, McAfee.com Corporation is a leading global Application Service Provider (ASP) redefining how software is developed, delivered and experienced by end users. The company delivers software benefits through an Internet browser, eliminating the need to install, configure and manage the technology on a local PC or network. McAfee.com hosts software applications on its vast technology infrastructure and provides applications to end users online through its web site www.mcafee.com. McAfee.com regularly has more than 350,000 unique visitors each day and has signed up more than 350,000 paid subscribers to date. For more information, contact McAfee.com at 1-408-572-1500 or on the Internet at http://www.mcafee.com.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services, serving over 1000 customers. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 3,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 150 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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| Jeff Young Akamai Technologies 617-250-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
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| Shawn Wolfe McAfee.com 408-572-1561 swolfe@mcafee.com |
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During peak days of virus strike, Akamai serves whopping 500% increase in traffic for McAfee.com
CAMBRIDGE, MA and SANTA CLARA, CA - May 8, 2000 -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of interactive Internet content, streaming media, and Internet applications, and McAfee.com (NASDAQ:MCAF), the world's leading consumer application service provider of PC security and management services, today announced that together, their services helped resolve issues resulting from the ILOVEYOU virus that began invading millions of email systems last Thursday. Through the use of Akamai's FreeFlowSM service, McAfee.com handled record-breaking traffic to its site, which includes critical information, updates and downloadable protection files, for the ILOVEYOU virus.McAfee.com uses FreeFlow for the delivery of over 50% of its online virus protection applications and its rich web content. FreeFlow has been instrumental in protecting McAfee.com from the flash crowds it has been receiving since Thursday as a result of the ILOVEYOU virus. During the first 24 hours after the virus struck, McAfee.com began receiving massive amounts of traffic from visitors who were in search of protection. With the FreeFlow service in place, McAfee.com supported a record-breaking 4.6 million hits to its Web site. McAfee.com's virus signature files, which contain protection from the virus, were also heavily accessed on Thursday. FreeFlow enabled McAfee.com to quickly and reliably deliver more than 500,000 downloads of virus protection software files that first day.
"Akamai was a critical component for McAfee.com during the chaotic days of the ILOVEYOU virus," said Doug Cavit, vice president of information technology, McAfee.com. "The powerful combination of Akamai's service with our highly scalable architecture allowed us to handle with ease the unprecedented spikes in traffic that amounted to more than five times the normal average. Our users are thrilled with the reliable service and support they've gotten from McAfee.com throughout this ordeal. What can I say? We love Akamai."
"Dealing with this virus has been a successful joint effort on the part of both Akamai and McAfee.com," said Earl Galleher, vice president, worldwide sales and support, Akamai. "This is just one of the many examples where Akamai's peak crowd protection paid off immensely. We are happy to have helped McAfee.com ensure that its end users were able to access their site, irregardless of the traffic demand, and download virus protection quickly and reliably."
In addition to the performance increases that FreeFlow brought to McAfee.com, the company saw great value in Akamai's Traffic Analyzer tool. "On Thursday evening, Akamai's Traffic Analyzer tool provided us with detailed, useful information from the events of the day, enabling us to determine from which of our files the highest percentage of traffic was coming. As a result, we were able to plan for the changes in capacity and bandwidth necessary for the remaining days in which the virus was still present, allowing us to continue to bring our customers top-notch service," Cavit added.
About McAfee.com
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, McAfee.com Corporation is a leading global Application Service Provider (ASP) redefining how software is developed, delivered and experienced by end users. The company delivers software benefits through an Internet browser, eliminating the need to install, configure and manage the technology on a local PC or network. McAfee.com hosts software applications on its vast technology infrastructure and provides applications to end users online through its web site www.mcafee.com. McAfee.com regularly has more than 350,000 unique visitors each day and has signed up more than 350,000 paid subscribers to date. For more information, contact McAfee.com at 1-408-572-1500 or on the Internet at http://www.mcafee.com.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of distributed content, streaming media, and applications delivery services, serving over 1000 customers. Akamai has deployed the broadest global network for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 3,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 150 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
