Tech Data Forms Partnership with Akamai Technologies to Provide Defense-in-Depth Capabilities
October 09 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Three New Solution Packages Make It Easy to
Leverage Akamai’s Market-leading IT Security Services in North
America
Tech Data (Nasdaq:TECD) today announced it has partnered with
Akamai Technologies, a leading content delivery network (CDN)
services provider of cloud security solutions, to offer security
and performance services tailored to meet clients’ IT security
needs as their businesses evolve. Representing Akamai’s first
partnership with a technology distributor, these additions to Tech
Data’s security portfolio provide a cloud- and data-center-agnostic
delivery platform with a defense-in-depth approach, whereby a
series of defensive mechanisms are layered for utmost data
protection.
“Defense-in-depth brings a deeper and broader approach to
cybersecurity. It’s not just multiple layers of protection — this
approach offers many dimensions to thwart attacks and protect
valuable information from unauthorized access,” said Alex Ryals,
vice president, Security Solutions, at Tech Data. “Akamai’s
capabilities offer our customers quick and easy access to this
comprehensive security solution with unequaled scale and
reach.”
Tech Data customers in the U.S. and Canada can now leverage any
of the following three comprehensive Akamai solution packages:
- Web application firewall protection
- Accelerated performance of web and mobile applications
- Enterprise traffic protection and remote application
access.
All services provided are cloud- and hosting-provider-agnostic,
include a 100 percent uptime guarantee and integrate without
significant changes to infrastructure and software at the end-user
site. This solution set provides customers with a secure, reliable
and flexible extension to their IT infrastructure and was named in
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls 2018. Akamai
secures and delivers digital experiences through its intelligent
edge platform, the largest and most distributed cloud delivery
platform of its kind, with thousands of locations on 250,000
servers worldwide.
“Tech Data represents a proven enablement ecosystem with
significant reach that Akamai can effectively engage to expand our
base of security partners,” said Michael McCollough, vice president
of Global Channels at Akamai. “We are pleased to offer our
market-leading services exclusively within its portfolio to help
organizations at all stages of digital transformation to leverage
best-in-class security and performance to drive their
businesses.”
For more information on Tech Data’s offerings of Akamai
solutions, email AkamaiUS@techdata.com or call 1-800-237-8931, ext.
73445.
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About Akamai
Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s
largest companies. Akamai’s intelligent edge platform surrounds
everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so customers and
their businesses can be fast, smart and secure. Top brands globally
rely on Akamai to help them realize competitive advantage through
agile solutions that extend the power of their multi-cloud
architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps and experiences closer
to users than anyone — and attacks and threats far away. Akamai’s
portfolio of edge security, web and mobile performance, enterprise
access and video delivery solutions is supported by unmatched
customer service, analytics and 24/7/365 monitoring.
About Tech Data
Tech Data connects the world with the power of technology. Our
end-to-end portfolio of products, services and solutions, highly
specialized skills, and expertise in next-generation technologies
enable channel partners to bring to market the products and
solutions the world needs to connect, grow and advance. Tech Data
is ranked No. 88 on the Fortune 500® and has been named one of
Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies for 10 straight years. To
find out more, visit www.techdata.com or follow us on Twitter,
LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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Wally Campbell Public Relations Manager, Americas Tech Data
480.936.2184 wally.campbell@techdata.com
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