MIAMI, Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Edge Customer
Conference – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading
provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing
online content and business applications, today announced several
new capabilities within the company's flagship Web Performance
Solution, Akamai Ion. Introduced at the Company's annual
customer conference, these enhancements are aimed at further
improving web site and application performance; offering increased
self‑serviceability of customers' Akamai environments; and
providing greater intelligence and insight in the user experience.
In addition, Akamai announced the Company has diversified its Ion
product line in an effort to better meet the situational
performance requirements for a wider variety of online
businesses.
By combining real-time actionable insight, dynamic site
optimization, and front-end optimization into a single, powerful
solution, Ion can help deliver fast, quality web experiences
independent of the user's browser, device, data source or network
or connection type. As such, Ion is recognized as the industry's
first and only situational performance solution. The new
capabilities being introduced are targeted at customer requirements
for enhanced performance, greater control and self-serviceability
of their Ion deployments, and enhanced insight and intelligence
into "Akamaized" web sites and applications. These new enhancements
are categorized as such:
- Faster Performance: Web users demand
the fastest, most highly performant experience possible. To help
address these requirements, Ion now features up to 75 percent
faster DNS resolution via Zone apex mapping. More intelligent
routing decisions for users of third-party distributed DNS
solutions such as Google DNS or Open DNS are designed to provide
further performance improvements, particularly in key emerging
markets globally. In Q4, Akamai plans to support automated creation
of advanced image formats such as JPEG2000 and WebP to help
accelerate browser rendering, particularly for users on cellular
networks. Additional image optimizations designed to improve
delivery of all images on the page are also planned for
Q4.
- Greater Self-Serviceability: Ion now
features greater self-service capabilities intended to make
configuration and optimization easier than ever. Optimal Suggested Policy introduces a dynamic
configuration engine that helps identify ideal optimization
settings. In Q4, Akamai expects Ion customers seeking greater
self-sufficiency will have the ability to bring new web properties
onto the platform on their own and access new APIs designed –
available via developer.akamai.com – to improve provisioning, the
testing process, allow re-use of optimization sets, and set
per-browser optimization policies, among other capabilities.
- Insight and Intelligence: Akamai has
added new performance reporting capabilities designed to provide
customers better insight into interruptions and delays originating
in the data center. Planned enhancements to Ion Real User
Monitoring (RUM) are expected to offer broad visibility for both
Akamai sites and non-Akamai sites to illustrate the impact of
optimizations on overall web performance.
- Fast and Easy Access to Akamai
Innovation: Akamai is introducing the "Beta Channel" , an
advanced Beta program that is designed to allow customers an
opportunity to quickly adopt and evaluate the latest pre-release
innovations in Ion functionality as soon as they are developed. By
opting-in to this complimentary service, it is expected that
customers will have immediate access to the latest Akamai
innovations so they can continue to innovate with Akamai ahead of
their competition. Currently, the program includes features
such new algorithmic predictive pre-fetching which can have a
material positive impact on performance.
One organization using Akamai Ion to enhance their customer
brand experience is computational photography pioneer, Lytro.
"Using light field technology, Lytro is transforming photography
and we rely on our web presence to demonstrate how our pictures are
a fundamentally richer way to tell deeper stories," commented
Azmat Ali, Vice President of
Marketing, Lytro. "Letting users interactively shift perspective,
explore depth, and share immersive 3D pictures is crucial
to how people explore Living Pictures, and that is
precisely what makes Ion a key aspect of our web strategy."
Diversifying Ion to Meet Customer Needs
In addition
to introducing a range of new capabilities, Akamai is also
announcing two new Ion editions intended to meet a company's
specific requirements and primary use cases for web site and
application optimization. Both provide customers the opportunity to
apply Akamai's pioneering optimization approach – Situational
Performance – to their web sites and applications. Customers can
now purchase Ion in one of two editions:
Ion Premier: A powerful and comprehensive solution
designed to offer maximum scale, performance and intelligence with
specific focus on optimizing the front-end. Ion Premier is
designed for organizations delivering highly complex web
experiences where performance is measured in milliseconds, such as
top online retailers.
Ion Standard: Ion Standard is intended to provide
industry-leading performance, offload, and availability with key
insight and intelligence accessed via an easy to manage cloud-based
service built on the Akamai Intelligent Platform. Ion Standard is
designed to be ideal for customers who are looking to get up and
running with out-of-the-box optimizations today, while maintaining
the flexibility to easily customize their Ion deployments as
business needs evolve.
"End user expectations related to the performance of their
favorite web experiences continue to drive organizations to strive
for an experience that come as close to instant as possible,"
explained Mike Afergan, senior vice
president and general manager, Web Experience Business Unit,
Akamai. "Our ongoing commitment to innovation drives the
development of the enhancements and the new features and
functionality we bring to market. We want to give our customers the
technology they need to exceed their users' most demanding
requirements, not only today, but also into the future."
About Akamai
Akamai® is the leading
provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing
online content and business applications. At the core of the
Company's solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing
extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security,
visibility and expertise. Akamai removes the complexities of
connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer
demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud. To
learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation
in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or
blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act
This release contains information about future expectations, plans
and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute
forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor
provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995, including statements about offering new Ion capabilities in
the future. Actual results may differ materially from those
indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors including, but not limited to, failure of
Akamai services to operate as expected or to address intended
market needs, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and
other factors that are discussed in Akamai's Annual Report on Form
10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents
periodically filed with the SEC.
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