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What is Akamai Technologies Services?

We remove the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward enabling you to embrace trends like cloud, mobile and media, while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally.

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We remove the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward enabling you to embrace trends like cloud, mobile and media, while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally.


Seller Details
Year Founded
1998
HQ Location
Cambridge, MA
Twitter
@Akamai
119,753 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
10,409 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:AKAM
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$3,198
Description

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over
0 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world.With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences.Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation.


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Nishit    C.
NC
Nishit C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"One of best security services"
Vast solution and services catalogue. Prompt support by akamai folks on incidents and issues. Detailed report Sense of end to end ownership on...
Mithilesh C.
MC
Mithilesh C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Data Engineer review"
The way of working and friendly people around the org.
Shanker R.
SR
Shanker R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Protects Business Critical Web Facing Applicationss"
We are using Akamai Web Application Firewall to protect critical business web Facing Applications. This helps our application to protect against ap...

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Nishit    C.
NC
Security Delivery Associate Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

Vast solution and services catalogue.

Prompt support by akamai folks on incidents and issues.

Detailed report

Sense of end to end ownership on matters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

Nothing as such. They are one of the best in market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Technologies Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamai has vast solution and services catalogue and catering global clients. Had a chance to interact with them as we were supporting some security device for client via akamai. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mithilesh C.
MC
Associate Consultant (Azure Data Engineer)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

The way of working and friendly people around the org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

As of now nothing, everything fine here. Management is also good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Technologies Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamai services are bit easy to learn and not much expensive so everyone can use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shanker R.
SR
Chief Information Security Officer & Head Business Continuity
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Akamai Technologies Services helped with:

We are using Akamai Web Application Firewall to protect critical business web Facing Applications. This helps our application to protect against application layer attacks. More than 50 plus web applications of our organization are behind WAF. We are also DNS services of Akamai. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

Akamai Technical Support. Solution supports majority of application development platforms. Real time attacks are getting blocked. Good executive summary dashbord. Their CDN services improves the application performance and enhance user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

Some applications functionality stops working when implemented in reject mode. Also Akamai licensing is expensive . If the traffic is very high on website then costing would be very high. Some complex integrations . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Technologies Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protection against known vulnerabilities including owasp; ddos attacks. CDN services improved application performance and user experience enhanced. Continuity of services as applications are up 24 /7 due to no security incidents because of Akamai protection enabled. We are also using as compensatory controls to protect against the security attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RY
Financial advisor
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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It has helped with integrating our cloud based services. It has help organize all our files with safe and secure web cloud services and enhanced securities. With all the staff working from home akamai has definitely helped us keep up with production and ensuring a high level of security. With akamai we do not worry about confidentiality issues and continue to offer a client confidence in how we handle files. We are also looking in to mobile data security which we may implement in the near future. Something in the books for the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

I like that they have a high level security from literally all threats. From ddos attacks to Margaret and phishing etc. Also the cloud service is very fast. With almost no lag or delays files are uploaded almost instantly and kept safe and secure. We also never had any issues with system outages or login issues. Everything has been pretty smooth sailing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

The price is a bit steep vs some competitors. However after trying a few other similar companies, akamai price reflects the service and support that comes along with it. Another thing to note is that the setup of the free trial did take a bit longer then expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Technologies Services:

If you are looking for good tech support, high level security for your sites and platforms and great cloud storage, I highly recommend you giving them a try. They also have a free trial period. I recommend using the free trial to see how you feel. After we tried the free trial we were happy to continue with the services. Other then that everything has been simple and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Technologies Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

None at the moment. Everything is working and has been working well so far. No issues. The only thing is that the time to setup the free trial took a bit longer then expected but it was rectified fairly quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tejas J.
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Network Security Architect
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Akamai Technologies Services helped with:

I am using Akamai for leveraging its Content Delivery Network (CDN) which is one of the largest in the world, Web Application firewall (WAF), DDOS and Zero Trust Network Architecture (Enterprise Application Access). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

It is an entirely Managed Cloud Service which enables you to do away with a physical or virtual form-factor in your DC or cloud environment (one of the drawbacks which are common with traditional WAF vendors like Barracuda. Infinite scaling (of course, keep an eye on the overall bandwidth utilization), good support (Managed Kona Service) and fairly sensitive DDoS capabilities. Edge servers are truly ubiquitous, thereby improving the end user experience. Path optimization to ensure reduced latency. Ability to control SSL connections - Akamai Edge server being the first SSL termination point, to control weak ciphers, TLS versions over which negotiation takes place etc. Akamai's FastDNS for its DNS authoritative name service is unparalleled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

Logging and Reporting capabilities can be made better to gain visibility of the overall traffic and internet transactions. Excessive dependence on TAC for granular real-time troubleshooting etc, the logs are not populated to the Control Center (in real time) thereby making the troubleshooting difficult and delayed. Lack of CDN native file sandboxing (CDN push) solution to ensure secure file uploads to the backend origin servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Technologies Services:

Premium product, slightly expensive as compared to its competitors, however the feature set, support truly worth the price. Prefer this product, if the in-house technical team size is small and the migration is required with minimum disruption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Technologies Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web Application firewall - Mitigate OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, caching of static content closer to the end users - for improving end user experience, mitigation of Distribute Denial of Service attacks and rate limiting the traffic for those origin servers which cannot sustain heavy workloads etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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we have been using Akamai for over 5 years now and it has made our department's life a lot easier! Our previous set up did not allow us to flip production sites to failover without moving every site. now with akamai we can go based on the site itself with little impact to production. also, the DNS part was implemented and has made ourt life easier as everything was hosted by 3rd party which made it harder to troubleshoot.

Akamai has made us love our job again :)" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

Support from the vendor is incredible! they are always fast responding with emaill or in some cases setting up a quick call to go over things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

Nothing to dislike, they have been amazing since day 1 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Technologies Services:

Maybe implement the other option tools that akamai has available as through the years we have found ourselves using them like the waiting room experience to flow website traffic and implementing the WAF sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Technologies Services solving and how is that benefiting you?

we have been using Akamai for over 5 years now and it has made our department's life a lot easier! from the customization option in regards of DNS service, the GTM settings which allows us to flip between failover and production with ease and based on the websites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim J.
TJ
Systems/Network Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Akamai Technologies Services helped with:

The purpose of our interest in Akamai was a need to harden our network further by preventing unintentional access to compromised websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

I absolutely love that Akamai works at the DNS level and DOES NOT depend on an installed client or proxied network connection. So far Akamai has been a terrific resource and blocks pages that are compromised, and we have noticed that it also blocks sites that are compromised due to lack of security within the organization. The product itself exceeds our expectations when it comes to securing our network from phishing attempts and virus attacks. It also works sufficiently well as a web content filter if your organization needs to blog sensitive topics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

Out of all the products I have used, this one has been the most simple to deploy and manage. There is some initial work on installing the ETP connector, but it is rather a simple process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Technologies Services:

Absolutely give them a try, their sales staff is VERY flexible when it comes to implementation time lines and they have top notch support. Akamai is one of the few companies that want you to succeed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

abraham g.
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personal trainer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Describe the project or task Akamai Technologies Services helped with:

Improves the reliability and efficency of downloands and streaming on the internet. when the user cliks on a link, the soffware seeks to improve the speed in several ways. It works to coordinate all the caches of content in the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

I like it because it can provide you with faster internet service that can improve the speed, reliability and efficiency of downloands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

I did not understand how to use it in the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Technologies Services:

I recommend them a lot, since it gives you the improvement in the efficiency and the speed of downloads of your files, you will be surprised how useful akamai technologies is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TK
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Load balancing and content delivery were needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

the cost and performance were solid with Akamai Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

the service team were not satisfactory with Akamai Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Describe the project or task Akamai Technologies Services helped with:

Streaming video streams - VOD and live in high scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Akamai Technologies Services?

quality of service, ability to scale fast and work with multi nods in no time.

We had a very big scale live broadcasts and things worked like a charm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Technologies Services?

their product, API's and bureaucracy moving things within the org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.