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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
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Akamai and FPT Partner to Help Customers Build and Support Cloud-Native Applications
New strategic partnership combines FPT's consulting and systems integration expertise with compute capabilities of globally distributed Akamai Cloud CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced a new partnership with global IT services leader FPT. As a newly appointed global systems integrator in the Akamai Partner Program, FPT will collaborate closely with Akamai to help customers build, deploy, and optimize distributed cloud applications on Akamai Cloud . Akamai Technologies, Inc. logo (PRNewsfoto/Akamai Technologies, Inc.) "We are thrilled to join the Akamai Partner Program," said Phuong Dang, FPT Software Senior Executive Vice President and FPT Software Americas' Chief Executive Officer, FPT Corporation. "This collaboration enables us to combine FPT's deep knowledge and experience in cloud migration, AI, and automation with Akamai's powerful platform to deliver enhanced value to both FPT and Akamai customers. Together, we aim to empower businesses to run modern, cloud-native applications on a platform built for performance and scale—regardless of the customer's stage in their cloud journey." The collaboration between Akamai and FPT aims to empower organizations to fully leverage cloud solutions designed to operate at scale, closer to users and devices. By combining FPT's vast workforce and proven capabilities in cloud consulting, DevOps, and SecOps with the robust performance and cost efficiencies of Akamai's compute platform, the partnership supports enterprises in optimizing multi-cloud and distributed environments. "FPT brings the kind of hands-on expertise our customers need—whether it's building cloud-native applications, managing multi-cloud environments, or unlocking AI inference across the globe," said Paul Joseph, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Services, Akamai. "They've already earned the trust of customers across many of the industries we serve, and now they're enabling those same customers to use Akamai Cloud to drive smarter, faster, more efficient computing around the world." At the 2025 NAB Show in Las Vegas, FPT and Akamai jointly demonstrated how AI can unlock new value from media archives by transforming them into monetizable assets. In a sports media use case, the showcase featured AI-driven indexing running on Akamai Cloud, capable of analyzing and tagging archived content with precision. By automatically detecting players, actions, and key moments, the system generates rich metadata that enhances content discoverability and viewer engagement. Sports entertainment operators, streaming services, and news organizations can offer fans near-instantaneous access to highlights through ultra-fast search and retrieval functions. The capabilities can be applied across a host of use cases and industries, showing how organizations can create new revenue streams using archived media.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Akamai Supports Devsisters in Strengthening Its Global Game Services Infrastructure
Akamai's cloud infrastructure contributes to improving the satisfaction of users of the CookieRun game around the world SEOUL, South Korea, April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc., the cybersecurity and cloud company that powers and protects businesses online, announced today that Devsisters Inc., the developer of the globally popular CookieRun series, has adopted Akamai Cloud to strengthen its global game services infrastructure. The adoption of Akamai Cloud is a decision by Devsisters to ensure stable service operations amid its rapid global market expansion. Devsisters is adding new items, stages, and features; improving its system; and hosting events for its games CookieRun: Kingdom and CookieRun: OvenBreak to improve user satisfaction while increasing the influx of new users. Thanks to these efforts, Devsisters' CookieRun series is rapidly expanding its user base around the world. Key features Global performance improvements: Compared with conventional public clouds, Akamai Cloud features a more distributed edge and a wider range of points of presence, which enable the infrastructure to automatically scale up and down to deliver the same game experience to users around the world, even when traffic is concentrated in certain regions. Cost optimization: When there are periods of peak user traffic, the system automatically allocates more server resources. In off-peak periods, it scales them back, preventing unnecessary operational costs. Scalability: During new game launches, large-scale updates, or other events when hundreds of thousands to millions of users connect simultaneously, the system detects traffic surges in real time and automatically allocates the necessary resources, minimizing server downtime and service delays. Devsisters expects that the adoption of Akamai Cloud will enable the swift deployment and scaling of new game launches, large-scale updates, and events so that users around the world can enjoy the same game experience anytime, anywhere. "In mobile gaming, latency is a critical factor in determining the quality of service that users experience," said KJ Lee, Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Akamai Korea. "With Akamai Cloud, a global gaming company like Devsisters can grow their global user base in a stable manner by providing services that are closer to users wherever they access the game in the world," he added. About AkamaiAkamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense-in-depth to safeguard critical data and applications at every touchpoint. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver superior performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at and or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn. About DevsistersFounded in 2007, Devsisters is a Korea-based game developer and creator of the popular CookieRun series with more than 200 million users worldwide. The company provides entertainment to users while building a unique universe centered around captivating characters and storytelling through various games across different platforms and genres, including CookieRun: OvenBreak and CookieRun: Kingdom. The company is also increasing its brand awareness through various IP-based businesses and is quickly becoming a global game company through continuous growth. CONTACT: Akamai PR, akamaiPR@ View original content: SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
27-03-2025
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Akamai Sharpens Its AI Edge with Launch of Akamai Cloud Inference
New service gives companies the ability to realize a 3x improvement in throughput, 60% less latency, and 86% lower cost than traditional hyperscale infrastructure CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today unveiled Akamai Cloud Inference, to usher in a faster, more efficient wave of innovation for organizations looking to turn predictive and large language models (LLMs) into real-world action. Akamai Cloud Inference runs on Akamai Cloud, the world's most distributed platform, to address escalating limitations of centralized cloud models. "Getting AI data closer to users and devices is hard, and it's where legacy clouds struggle," said Adam Karon, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Cloud Technology Group at Akamai. "While the heavy lifting of training LLMs will continue to happen in big hyperscale data centers, the actionable work of inferencing will take place at the edge where the platform Akamai has built over the past two and a half decades becomes vital for the future of AI and sets us apart from every other cloud provider in the market." AI inference on Akamai CloudAkamai's new solution provides tools for platform engineers and developers to build and run AI applications and data-intensive workloads closer to end users, delivering 3x better throughput while reducing latency up to 2.5x. Using Akamai's solution, businesses can save up to 86% on AI inference and agentic AI workloads compared to traditional hyperscaler infrastructure. Akamai Cloud Inference includes: Compute: Akamai Cloud offers a versatile compute arsenal, from classic CPUs for fine-tuned inference, to powerful accelerated-compute options in GPUs, and tailored ASIC VPUs to provide the right horsepower for a spectrum of AI inference challenges. Akamai integrates with Nvidia's AI Enterprise ecosystem, leveraging Triton, TAO Toolkit, TensorRT, and NVFlare to optimize performance of AI inference on NVIDIA GPUs. Data management: Akamai enables customers to unlock the full potential of AI inference with a cutting-edge data fabric purpose-built for modern AI workloads. Akamai has partnered with VAST Data to provide streamlined access to real-time data to accelerate inference-related tasks, essential to delivering relevant results and a responsive experience. This is complemented by highly scalable object storage to manage the volume and variety of datasets critical to AI applications, and integration with leading vector database vendors, including Aiven and Milvus, to enable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). With this data management stack, Akamai securely stores fine-tuned model data and training artifacts to deliver low-latency AI inference at global scale. Containerization: Containerizing AI workloads enables demand-based autoscaling, improved application resilience, and hybrid/multicloud portability, while optimizing both performance and cost. With Kubernetes, Akamai delivers faster, cheaper, and more secure AI inference at petabyte-scale performance. Underpinned by Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)-Enterprise, a new enterprise edition of Akamai Cloud's Kubernetes orchestration platform designed specifically for large-scale enterprise workloads, and the recently announced Akamai App Platform, Akamai Cloud Inference is able to quickly deploy an AI-ready platform of open source Kubernetes projects, including KServe, Kubeflow, and SpinKube, seamlessly integrated to streamline the deployment of AI models for inference. Edge compute: To simplify how developers build AI-powered applications, Akamai AI Inference includes WebAssembly (Wasm) capabilities. Working with Wasm providers like Fermyon, Akamai enables developers to execute inferencing for LLMs directly from serverless apps, allowing customers to execute lightweight code at the edge to enable latency-sensitive applications. Together, these tools create a powerful platform for low-latency, AI-powered applications that allows companies to deliver the experience their users demand. Akamai Cloud Inference runs on the company's massively distributed platform capable of consistently delivering over one petabyte per second of throughput for data-intensive workloads. Comprising more than 4,200 points of presence across greater than 1,200 networks in over 130 countries worldwide, Akamai Cloud makes compute resources available from cloud to edge while accelerating application performance and increasing scalability. The shift from training to inferenceAs AI adoption matures, enterprises are recognizing that the hype around LLMs has created a distraction, drawing focus away from practical AI solutions better suited to solve specific business problems. LLMs excel at general-purpose tasks like summarization, translation, and customer service. These are very large models that are expensive and time-consuming to train. Many enterprises have found themselves constrained by architectural and cost requirements, including data center and computational power; well-structured, secure, and scalable data systems; and the challenges that location and security requirements place on decision latency. Lightweight AI models, — designed to address specific business problems — can be optimized for individual industries, can use proprietary data to create measurable outcomes, and represent a better return on investment for enterprises today. AI inference needs a more distributed cloudIncreasingly, data will be generated outside of centralized data centers or cloud regions. This shift is driving demand for AI solutions that leverage data generation closer to the point of origin. This fundamentally reshapes infrastructure needs as enterprises move beyond building and training LLMs, toward using data for faster, smarter decisions and investing in more personalized experiences. Enterprises recognize that they can generate more value by leveraging AI to manage and improve their business operations and processes. Distributed cloud and edge architectures are emerging as preferable for operational intelligence use cases because they can provide real-time, actionable insights across distributed assets even in remote environments. Early customer examples on Akamai Cloud include in-car voice assistance, AI-powered crop management, image optimization for consumer product marketplaces, virtual garment visualization shopping experiences, automated product description generators, and customer feedback sentiment analyzers. "Training an LLM is like creating a map, requiring you to gather data, analyze terrain, and plot routes. It's slow and resource-intensive, but once built, it's highly useful. AI inference is like using a GPS, instantly applying that knowledge, recalculating in real time, and adapting to changes to get you where you need to go," explained Karon. "Inference is the next frontier for AI." About AkamaiAkamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at and or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn. ContactsAkamai Media Relationsakamaipr@ Akamai Investor Relationsinvrel@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Business
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Akamai and VAST Data Working to Usher in the Era of Edge AI Inference
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced it has entered into an agreement with VAST Data, the AI data platform company, to make data-intensive AI inferencing faster and more efficient. The collaboration will marry Akamai's massive distributed platform with the VAST Data Platform's breakthrough approach to data-intensive computing to integrate data for large, distributed customers that need better local response time and localization for distributed inference. Latency, cost, and scalability are hurdles to deploying AI-powered applications at scale. Unlike training, which is resource-intensive but happens in controlled environments, inference must operate continuously, on-demand, and often with ultra-low latency. Adding VAST Data to the Akamai Cloud aims to lower costs and improve customer experience to help democratize edge AI computing. While many cloud service providers support large-scale centralized AI training, they do not operate inference at the scale and distribution for planetary-scale service. As the world's most distributed cloud, Akamai is uniquely positioned to deliver AI inference at the edge, helping enterprises meet local response time and localization requirements. With VAST, Akamai Cloud users can benefit from consistency and fast, secure access to all of their organization's data, from edge to cloud, via a single global namespace. "With this agreement, Akamai and VAST Data will deliver next-generation AI infrastructure that combines hyperscale performance, security, and efficiency to meet the growing demands of enterprise AI workloads, closer to the digital touchpoint," said Jeff Denworth, Co-Founder of VAST Data. "Together, we are providing organizations with an AI-ready data platform that ensures seamless scalability, intelligent automation, and enterprise-grade security for the most demanding AI and inference applications." The agreement with VAST Data helps advance Akamai's vision for a more distributed cloud model at a time when even centralized architectures are beginning to struggle to adapt to the demands of an edge-centric future. About Akamai Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at and or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn. ContactsAkamai Media Relationsakamaipr@ Investor Relationsinvrel@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
