Back in the 20s, not long after the birth of the World Wide Web, people were still basking in the joy of being able to access and share information anytime, anywhere, without realizing that a major crisis was coming. Since the content delivery of the Internet at that time was basically based on the delivery of lines, which also led to its limited capacity, one of the most significant contradictions was network congestion, for which Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, also put forward an academic problem, hoping that someone could invent a way to fundamentally solve the problem and realize the congestion-free distribution of Internet content.
After more than 20 years of development, Akamai has become a leading "cloud distribution, cloud computing, and cloud security" company, which can provide enterprises with fast, reliable, wide coverage and secure environment solutions.
Sheng Li, Vice President and General Manager of Akamai Greater China
Last year, Akamai launched the Akamai Connected Cloud, which fully integrates cloud computing, cloud security, and cloud distribution, using a single platform to meet the three core needs of enterprises for content computing, distribution, and protection. Although in the eyes of many people, Akamai is still a 'newcomer' in the field of cloud computing, in fact, we have been in the field of pan-cloud computing concept for many years, and every innovation of Akamai during this period has had a profound impact on the development of the cloud computing industry. Li Sheng, vice president and general manager of Akamai Greater China, said.
Throughout Akamai's history, from content delivery to cybersecurity to cloud computing, every innovation at Akamai has brought significant changes to the cloud-based industry.
InContent DeliveryAs the originator of CDN, Akamai has completely changed the landscape of content delivery on the Internet, deploying the traffic that users want to access to the nearest node in advance through mathematical scheduling algorithms, and scheduling to the nearest edge node with information service capabilities every time it receives instructions from users, thus greatly alleviating Internet congestion. Today, after more than 20 years of underlying infrastructure expansion and evolution, Akamai's CDN has spread to 750+ regions in 130 countries around the world, with a capacity of up to 1,000TB and more than 4,000 edge points of presence, making Akamai the world's largest content delivery network provider.
InCybersecurityFor this reason, Akamai entered the field of Internet security protection through technological innovation more than 10 years ago, established the world's most extensive distributed DDoS protection platform with excellent protection capabilities, and gradually extended to Web application layer protection, API protection and bot crawler fraud management protection. Full suite of Internet-based protection capabilities for fraud protection even at the highest application layer.
And whereasCloud computingAlthough the entire market has experienced ten years of rapid development, there are still some problems. Li Sheng said that due to the high cost, lack of automation, and the dominance of a few giant companies, many users do not get the cost benefits of moving to the cloud, so many customers want to realize the portability of multi-cloud applications.
Wentao Li, Head of Akamai's Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Expert Team
Akamai Connected Cloud is designed to do just that, and as a product that integrates content delivery, cloud security, and cloud computing, Akamai Connected Cloud offers many advantages that other cloud computing solutions don't have, according to Wentao Li, head of Akamai's Asia Pacific cloud computing expert team.
One is:Globally distributedBased on Akamai's 24 core nodes and more than 4,000 edge nodes around the world, Akamai Connected Cloud helps users deploy applications close to end users, improving user experience and reducing latency. The advantages of Akamai's global coverage allow overseas users to better expand their business in overseas regions.
The second isSimple system, which can greatly simplify the burden of financial management of cloud spending.
The third is:Simple and easy to useThe Akamai cloud computing platform is fast and developer-friendly. At the same time, because Akamai provides a very comprehensive after-sales service, customers can better build a cloud-neutral architecture based on multi-cloud based on Akamai Connected Cloud.
The fourth is:Open ecosystem。At the software level, Akamai doesn't focus too much on managed private services, but rather helps customers build cloud-neutral applications with open source software that can be built once and run on multiple clouds. At the same time, combined with Akamai's very competitive outbound traffic fees, it truly helps users build a multi-cloud-friendly architecture, which can not only help customers reduce costs, but also help customers reduce the business risks caused by long-term cloud lock-in.
Continued investment in content delivery, cybersecurity, and cloud computing has made Akamai highly recognized by industry customers, especially in the Asia Pacific region, where Akamai's customer base has grown to 2,195 and delivered 2. per day4TB, with a peak bandwidth of more than 50TB.
As an important economy in the Asia-Pacific region, the importance of the Chinese market to Akamai is self-evident, and Akamai has been continuing to help Chinese companies go overseas for many years, especially after the issuance of the "Opinions on Promoting the Stable Scale and Optimal Structure of Foreign Trade" in April last year, which further promoted the enthusiasm of Chinese enterprises to go overseas.
Compared with previous years, the number of Chinese enterprises going overseas is further increasing, more than 70% of small and medium-sized enterprises have implemented the "going out" plan, and the goal of going overseas has also expanded from the traditional Europe, America and Southeast Asia to the Middle East and Africa. Finally, as an important area for Chinese enterprises to go overseas, the export scale of cross-border e-commerce is further increasing, and it is expected to reach 266 trillion level.
Ke Zhang, Senior Director of Strategic Sales, Akamai
Of course, the new trend of going overseas also brings new challenges, Zhang Ke, senior strategic sales director of Akamai, said that cost pressure, cloud infrastructure is not close to users, and business lock-in are all problems faced by Chinese enterprises going overseas, and Akamai's public cloud services can solve these problems from many aspects.
First, Akamai itself is the world's largest distributed CDN, cloud computing, and cloud security platform, and Akamai has the advantages of low latency and high throughput that other cloud service providers cannot match, so as to help enterprises build a more effective, efficient, and cost-effective application system.
Second, the global scalability and high availability of the Akamai platform can help enterprises build a more robust and scalable infrastructure platform.
Third, in terms of cloud spending. Compared with traditional cloud computing platforms, Akamai's first-class system is simpler and clearer, and the unit price is more competitive.
Fourth, Akamai's acquisition of Linode, a developer-focused cloud computing platform, last year, can help enterprise IT engineers and developers quickly build their own architectures.
Fifth, Akamai has the advantage of cloud neutrality, and Akamai is currently focusing on cloud computing, cloud distribution, and cloud security, but it will not compete with e-commerce, games, and the essential business aspects of enterprises.
Sixth, as data compliance and privacy requirements increase, Akamai has invested in infrastructure accordingly.
Seventh, with the further expansion of Akamai's edge computing platform, Akamai will also be better able to help customers meet their on-premise storage requirements, while also enabling their applications and businesses to reach more localized infrastructure faster.
Eighth, Akamai will focus more on developing some core business functions that are more effective for customers to build their own IT systems and build their own cloud computing capabilities. This reduces technology lock-in and helps customers unlock the technology potential of multi-cloud.
Today, cloud computing has become an important force in promoting the digital transformation of enterprises. Facing the future, Akamai is also actively building the cloud technology that the market needs in the next ten years, especially in edge computing, "According to IDC's **, the next stage of cloud technology requires developers and enterprises to change their thinking, and we need to look at how to make our programs and data can be deployed closer to users to support more innovative business scenarios and applications, which happens to be Akamai's decades of technology and resource accumulation in edge computing and edge network, We want to turn this accumulation into a very easy-to-use edge cloud computing to serve our customers. Li Wentao said in the end.