Fujitsu testimonial

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Fujitsu Ltd. is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions, operating more than 400 business units and subsidiaries in more than thirty-five countries. Until mid 2000, most of those business units managed and maintained their own Web sites—hundreds of separate URLs representing a wide range of branding approaches and IT infrastructures. For Fujitsu’s management, this meant an inability to provide a predictable, high speed Web experience to all its customers around the world. All this was to change in 2000, when Fujitsu established a Corporate Brand Office charged with creating a consistent brand image across all Fujitsu worldwide entities. Phase one of the project called for a ‘virtual’ consolidation of Web properties—re-vamping the look, feel, and content of all existing Web sites. Phase two was the physical consolidation of those sites under a single IT infrastructure.

To support its worldwide consolidation project, Fujitsu chose Akamai EdgeSuite—a service designed specifically to overcome the obstacles that typically plague globally distributed e-business efforts, including slow downloads across geographic footprints, inconsistent uptime and lack of scalability. Akamai EdgeSuite took nearly 100% of the computing load off of Fujitsu’s origin servers, delivering all site traffic via the Akamai EdgePlatform. Download times dropped drastically, site performance remains consistent for Fujitsu’s global customer base, and overall site performance is controlled and measured. The best part? Deploying Akamai cost just 15% of Fujitsu’s $1 million budget.

"With Akamai, we are able to deliver content rapidly to anywhere in the world. In some regions we went from customers waiting seven seconds for our home page to download to less than half a second. And we did it all without adding even one piece of infrastructure."
—Petar Karafezov, Senior Systems Administrator, Global Net Division, Fujitsu