Akamai Chief Technology Officer to Discuss Benefits of Distributed Application Processing


Contacts:
 
Jeff Young
Media Relations
Akamai Technologies
617-444-3913
jyoung@akamai.com
--or-- J.C. Raby
Investor Relations
Akamai Technologies
617-444-2555
jraby@akamai.com


CAMBRIDGE, MA - February 19, 2003 - Bill Weihl, chief technology officer of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), a provider of products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, will deliver a Webcast presentation entitled "EdgeComputing - A New Model for Application Processing," next week, available from www.akamai.com.

When: Wednesday, February 26
  1:00 p.m. EST
 
Where: Register at www.akamai.com
 
What: Enterprises today are spending heavily on e-business solutions and enterprise applications in order to promote and sell products, provide customer service, and interact with business partners on the Web. The challenge facing enterprises is to develop and deploy Web applications in a scalable manner that is not only simple to support, but yields the performance and reliability necessary to achieve their business objectives. This Webcast will provide perspective on how to expedite Web application deployment, what benefits are gained by distributing Web applications, and how today's businesses are utilizing edge computing technologies.


For any questions on registering for the Webcast, please contact Elsje Eisenhauer at (617) 444-2811. The presentation will also be available on-demand at www.akamai.com/edgecomputing_webcast.

About Akamai
Akamai provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and applications delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com.

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