Together, the team has signed a total of 40 customers through the alliance, including Monster.com, The Seattle Times, and Travelocity.com, among other leading companies that leverage the Internet for the delivery of business-critical applications and electronic commerce.
Established in December 2000, the Akamai and Internap alliance combines Internap’s centrally managed system of routing data over the major Internet backbones and Akamai’s globally distributed network and integrated suite of services for content and application delivery, content customization, and business intelligence. The relationship has since yielded a series of mutual customers in many sectors including finance, healthcare, media and entertainment, retail, and technology, as businesses seek superior Internet connectivity and complete solutions to their mission-critical Web infrastructure needs.
A leading source of news and information to the Pacific Northwest region, our business relies heavily on the reliability of its Internet connectivity and the rapid, reliable manner in which our content is delivered to visitors, said Donna Zielinski, technology and operations manager, new media, The Seattle Times. Using the Akamai-Internap solution fulfills our need for a more efficient and scalable Internet infrastructure, and helps us to deliver our breaking news and information in the most reliable, cost-effective manner.
Through the strategic alliance, Akamai is an important Internap customer and Internap resells Akamai’s comprehensive suite of services, which are designed to significantly reduce costs and complexities of deploying and operating customers’ e-business network and applications. The combination of the companies’ services benefits shared customers by providing greater manageability and control over their Internet data.
The Akamai-Internap alliance has proven to be of significant value to customers that require optimal performance for their mission-critical Web initiatives, said Alan Norman, vice president of corporate development for Internap Network Services. The combination of Internap’s intelligent core and Akamai’s outsourced e-business infrastructure offerings is a winning solution for many of our customers.
Our relationship continues to prosper through the joint efforts in serving customers for which improved performance, scalability, and reliability of Web operations remain vital, said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, Akamai. The broad range of clients that Internap and Akamai have acquired reinforces the synergies between our robust offering, and confirms that complete e-business management solutions have become necessary to the on-going success of enterprise businesses.
SOURCE: COMPANY PRESS RELEASE
