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Akamai and IBM Expand Relationship to Provide Advanced Streaming Media Services
Earlier this year, IBM Global Services became the largest company to remarket Akamai's FreeFlowSM service for high-speed Web content delivery. With today's announcement, IBM Web hosting customers will now also have access to Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service, which enhances the quality and reliability of live and on-demand streaming media.
"As a leader in Web hosting and with its global reach, IBM is uniquely equipped to bring Akamai's streaming services to its interactive media customers," said Earl Galleher, Executive Vice President, Akamai. "We're thrilled to work closely with IBM and to further integrate our offerings to create best-in-class Internet services for e-businesses worldwide."
"Optimal Web performance — including high-quality streaming delivery — is crucial for any Web hosting customer," said Warren Hart, director of global offerings for Web hosting for IBM Global Services. "Using Akamai's streaming media services, IBM's customers will be able to bring their Web sites to life with broadcast-quality streaming media content."
About IBM Global Services
A world leader in hosting and e-business services, IBM operates 175 data centers worldwide. By the end of 2000, the company will have 25 e-Business Hosting Centers open around the world. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to build more than 50 new IBM e-Business Hosting Centers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.
IBM Global Services is the world's largest information technology services provider, with 1999 revenues of approximately $32 billion. Services is the fastest growing part of IBM, with more than 140,000 professionals serving customers in 160 countries. IBM Global Services integrates IBM's broad range of capabilities — services, hardware, software and research — to help companies of all sizes realize the full value of information technology. For more information visit www.ibm.com/services.
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected within 335 different telecommunications networks.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
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 failure of the new service offerings described herein to achieve commercial success or viability, 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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| Caryn Converse Akamai Technologies 617-250-4661 converse@akamai.com |
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IBM to remarket Akamai's streaming delivery services to its Web hosting customers
Cambridge, Mass., and Somers, N.Y., November 17, 2000 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) and IBM today announced that IBM will offer Akamai's streaming media services to IBM's Web hosting customers worldwide.Earlier this year, IBM Global Services became the largest company to remarket Akamai's FreeFlowSM service for high-speed Web content delivery. With today's announcement, IBM Web hosting customers will now also have access to Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service, which enhances the quality and reliability of live and on-demand streaming media.
"As a leader in Web hosting and with its global reach, IBM is uniquely equipped to bring Akamai's streaming services to its interactive media customers," said Earl Galleher, Executive Vice President, Akamai. "We're thrilled to work closely with IBM and to further integrate our offerings to create best-in-class Internet services for e-businesses worldwide."
"Optimal Web performance — including high-quality streaming delivery — is crucial for any Web hosting customer," said Warren Hart, director of global offerings for Web hosting for IBM Global Services. "Using Akamai's streaming media services, IBM's customers will be able to bring their Web sites to life with broadcast-quality streaming media content."
About IBM Global Services
A world leader in hosting and e-business services, IBM operates 175 data centers worldwide. By the end of 2000, the company will have 25 e-Business Hosting Centers open around the world. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to build more than 50 new IBM e-Business Hosting Centers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.
IBM Global Services is the world's largest information technology services provider, with 1999 revenues of approximately $32 billion. Services is the fastest growing part of IBM, with more than 140,000 professionals serving customers in 160 countries. IBM Global Services integrates IBM's broad range of capabilities — services, hardware, software and research — to help companies of all sizes realize the full value of information technology. For more information visit www.ibm.com/services.
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider serving over 2,800 customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 6,000 servers in 54 countries directly connected within 335 different telecommunications networks.
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
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 failure of the new service offerings described herein to achieve commercial success or viability, 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
