Akamai Announces Plans for West Coast Office; Company to Establish Presence in Silicon Valley; Begins to Fill Positions in Sales and Research & Development.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1999-- Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , which operates a global Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the content delivery service that speeds up Web performance, announced today plans for the opening of a West Coast office in California's Silicon Valley. The new facility will house Akamai employees focusing on sales and research & development. Akamai's Silicon Valley office will open in the 4th quarter of 1999. "Our new offices will allow us to be closer to our strategic partners, West Coast customers and to a very talented pool of potential employees," said Paul Sagan, president and COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. of Akamai. In a separate release issued today, Akamai announced the hiring of two industry-renowned engineers that will begin work out of the West Coast office. Joining Akamai are Peter Danzig as Vice President of Technology, formerly with Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything ; and Chuck Neerdaels as Director of Engineering, formerly of Inktomi. Peter Danzig will head up Akamai's West Coast research & development activities. About Akamai Akamai Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . Akamai provides a global Internet content delivery service that improves Web site speed and reliability and protects against Web site crashes due to demand overloads. Currently, Akamai has 900 servers deployed in 15 countries across 25 telecommunications networks A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. , providing Akamai's customers with guaranteed global Internet content delivery service. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool. |
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