The acceleration of the intelligent era has brought many new changes to the Internet landscape. Every upgrade of the Internet world is an impact on the old order and the establishment of a new order. Akamai is the world's leading cloud service provider that protects businesses, their applications, data, employees, and customers from all forms of cyberattacks. Last year, Akamai launched Akamai Connected Cloud, the world's most widely distributed cloud computing, security, and content delivery platform, to adapt to the changes brought about by the cloud computing environment in the intelligent era.
A service platform for network security
Akamai originated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and entered the Internet world with CDN services. Before Akamai entered the Internet, with the popularity of Internet services, the growth rate of malicious traffic far exceeded the traffic of legitimate access, which brought various problems. The entire Internet world is calling for a powerful, intelligent platform that can constantly evolve with the tooling landscape.
After more than 20 years of continuous expansion and evolution of the underlying infrastructure, Akamai has become the world's largest content distribution, CDN, and edge content delivery network platform with a capacity of up to 1,000 TB, more than 4,000 edge points of presence, and covering more than 130 countries and regions.
Sheng Li, Vice President and General Manager of Akamai Greater China.
Li Sheng, Vice President and General Manager of Akamai Greater China, said. For the first time since the advent of Akamai, the traffic that users want to access is deployed to the nearest node in advance through mathematical scheduling algorithms, and each time a user access instruction is received, it is dispatched to the nearest edge node with information service capabilities to provide the service. Greatly alleviates the congestion of the Internet.
The loyal choice of the top 10 companies in many industries around the world
After entering cloud computing, users are facing some new challenges, mainly focused on three points:
Costly; It's not really automated;
The service offerings on the market are dominated by a handful of giant companies.
Overall, the portability of multi-cloud applications has become a very urgent need for many customers. That's why Akamai launched Akamai Connected Cloud on its 25th anniversary, making it a transparent, accessible, and no-hidden cost service that enables application portability and portability.
Under the guidance of the strategy of continuous investment in innovation and always being close to users, Akamai has been recognized by many leading customers in the industry.
We have a large proportion of customers in the world's top 10 companies in some key industry sectors, such as reporting**, banking, brokerage companies, games, medical insurance, etc. Li Sheng said. At present, the Asia-Pacific region has become the fastest growing region for Akamai's business outside of North America, and China is also an important growth point for Akamai's business in the Asia-Pacific region.
An excellent companion for Chinese enterprises going overseas
Enterprises going overseas is an important choice for the development of many Chinese enterprises, and under the current situation, enterprises have sunk into small and medium-sized enterprises in various fields. With the support of national policies, the situation of Chinese enterprises going overseas has undergone great changes.
Ke Zhang, Senior Director of Strategic Sales, Akamai.
Ke Zhang, senior director of strategic sales at Akamai, said: "In the past, we categorized our customers into customers who were more focused on going overseas and those who were more focused on local business. But now, the line is slowly blurring, and it's hard to find a company that is 100% focused on the local market and not focusing on the overseas market. ”
In the process of going overseas, in order to adapt to the expansion of business, Chinese enterprises require higher flexibility and scalability for network service platforms. Therefore, its deployment of cloud computing system faces three challenges, one is from the cost pressure, with the downward pressure of the global macroeconomy, Chinese enterprises going overseas pay more attention to the cost-effectiveness ratio of projects and investments. The second is a growing desire for cloud infrastructure to be closer to their users to deliver richer experiences and more interactive applications that can further drive revenue and conversions. Finally, it is to avoid the lock-in from the first provider, which is mainly due to the monopoly of large service providers, so that users have to pay high outbound traffic fees in the subsequent use process.
As the world's largest CDN, cloud computing, and cloud security platform, Akamai has the advantages of low latency and high throughput traffic that other cloud service providers cannot match, so as to help enterprises build a more effective, efficient, and cost-effective application system.
At the same time, Akamai has more than 1,000 Tbps of traffic platform worldwide, more than 4,100 data centers, and more than 1,200 carriers. This allows Chinese enterprises to choose the target area of their business very efficiently in the process of going global, without worrying about the impact on their business due to infrastructure constraints. With the acquisition of Linode, a well-known developer-oriented cloud computing platform, Akamai also has a richer set of development tools and APIs, allowing its products to be more flexible and scalable.
More importantly, Akamai is cloud-neutral, protecting personal privacy and data security, and meeting the data localization requirements of various countries and regions.
Openness and convenience are the greatest values that the development of the Internet brings to human society. Akamai has won the trust of the world's largest number of customers with its extensive global coverage, simpler** system, easier to use user-friendly design, and open and inclusive cloud neutrality, which not only helps customers reduce costs, but also helps customers reduce business risks caused by long-term cloud lock-in. (Written by Xu Peiyan).