Akamai Positioned in 'Visionaries' Quadrant in 2007 Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Products.Akamai Continues to Validate Managed Services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality Approach to Accelerating Applications CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- 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. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AKAM AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. (stock abbreviation) AKAM Automated Key Access Machine ), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the 'Visionaries' quadrant quadrant, in analytic geometry quadrant. 1 In analytic geometry, one of the four regions of the plane determined by two lines, the x-axis and the y-axis. of the "Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. for Application Delivery Products, 2007" report. Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Mark Fabbi and research vice president Joe Skorupa evaluated application delivery vendors based on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision. Gartner is a research and advisory firm that helps more than 60,000 clients worldwide understand technology and drive business growth. Gartner evaluated the vendors against holistic criteria that included the company's vision, execution, market understanding, sales strategy, innovation, business model, market responsiveness, track record, and customer service experience. Akamai has established itself as a leading managed service provider and alternative to hardware-based solutions. Operating a distributed network of servers in over 750 cities around the world, Akamai's services are designed to ensure consistent application acceleration on behalf of its customers, while alleviating the need for businesses to deploy appliances. Enterprises can extend their dynamic, highly-interactive Web applications including customer-facing portals, collaboration platforms An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. , E-Learning environments, and business-to-business commerce, across the Akamai global platform to achieve greater utilization and adoption. "We are very pleased with Akamai's placement in the 'visionaries' quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Products," said Tom Leighton, co-founder and chief scientist of Akamai. "Global customer adoption of our Web Application Accelerator solution demonstrates the business need for a massively-distributed managed service offering. Akamai's architecture is unique in being able to place mission-critical application logic close to end user requests. With 25,000 deployed servers in over 900 individual networks, Akamai addresses the bottlenecks associated with the middle-mile of the Internet. A hardware-based alternative or a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. service built using a few regional deployments simply cannot cost-effectively scale to meet the performance and availability needs for businesses seeking widespread adoption of their Web applications." Akamai's Web Application Accelerator is an innovative solution for accelerating a wide variety of Web-based enterprise applications via the Akamai Platform, a globally-deployed network of secure, performance-optimized servers that overlay the existing Internet. Using a number of unique techniques including dynamic mapping, route optimization and connection optimization technology, Akamai avoids problems that occur on the Internet, delivering consistent, improved application performance and availability for users worldwide. For more information on Akamai Web Application Accelerator, please visit http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/web_application_accelerator.html About the Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability mer·chant·a·ble adj. Suitable for buying and selling; marketable. mer  chant·a·bil or fitness
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About Akamai Akamai[R] is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online. Thousands of organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Leveraging the Akamai EdgePlatform, these organizations gain business advantage today, and have the foundation for the emerging Web solutions of tomorrow. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business." For more information, visit www.akamai.com. Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. for purposes of the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. 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, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by unauthorized users or others, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. , and other documents periodically filed with the SEC. |
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