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What do you like best about Akamai?

Easy to connect to the secure organisation environment, safe and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

Nothing it works well, we have not faced any chanllanges till date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Secure connection to organisation network and to access its applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akamai Overview

What is Akamai?

The Akamai Intelligent Platform is a cloud platform for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere. It reaches globally and delivers locally.

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The Akamai Intelligent Platform is a cloud platform for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere. It reaches globally and delivers locally.


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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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5.0 out of 5
"Amazing for clearing cache"
The ease of the Akamai intergration is amazing. I use it frequently throughout the day.
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4.5 out of 5
"REAL GAME CHANGER FOR WEB PERFORMANCE AND SECURITY"
Akamai software has a vast content delivery network which has drastically improved our website load times. Their Web Application Firewall (WAF) and...
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"Akamai All in One Solution"
In terms of security solutions, Akamai provides many different security solutions depending on the requirement. The highlights here are that all th...
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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Akamai?

The ease of the Akamai intergration is amazing. I use it frequently throughout the day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

I have not found anything that i dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Making my updates show up as soon as i send a request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai?

In terms of security solutions, Akamai provides many different security solutions depending on the requirement. The highlights here are that all their solutions can work as one meaning all data are consolidated and correlated afterward, giving you the best data for visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

Akamai is known for acquiring other vendor to add it to their current solutions. The drawback here is that so many added solutions within a short time make it harder to learn and gain expertise on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Akamai helps protect to secure web traffic within a given environment. It can be through HTTP/HTTPS layer, DNS layer protection and any other protocol residing on Layer 7 of OSI Layer. As a distributor, it helps us to position this product easily because of its offerings. As a user, I can easily manage all these solutions because of a central management system or single pane of glass management available out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai?

Akamai software has a vast content delivery network which has drastically improved our website load times. Their Web Application Firewall (WAF) and DDoS mitigation services are also outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

More budget-friendly options tailored to startups and smaller enterprises would be a great deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the software has eliminated of slow website loading times. This for us has boosted user satisfaction and engagement, ultimately driving business growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sahil G.
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QA Cybersecurity Engineer
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What do you like best about Akamai?

Akamia is an industry leader in WAF solutions and their DDOS protection is one of the best services in terms of configuration, very low latency issue, high availability, and cost

their WAF is also integrated with various AST solutions to protect assets and apply patches temporary by integration with AST

Their account takeover protection is also provide advance protection with spoofing attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

Akamia App and API security is a little bit complex to configure and needs some changes in an existing production environment plus minor changes in code and there are some latency issues in production during high traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Akamia provides multiple solutions in a single basket (App and API security, DDOS protection, and account takeover protection), the best thing about Akamia is we can easily integrate it with various application security tools to create rules as soon as a vulnerability is reported so it will act as a temporary patch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai?

Akamai offers great cloud services with high security measures. It is quick and safe. the uploads run in the background and it is seemless. Their Ddos protection is alsot unparrael with what we use. the security they offer allows us to work without any worries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

there are times that the cloud system is down and makes for a lag. this does cause a problem once and awhile but it is quite rare it happens. when the issues arise the problems are usually solved within the 1st hour. Overall, it is still 1 of the most reliable services out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Akamai has helped reduce our yearly costs significantly. by using one company that offers cloud services and system protection, it has helped us keep our IT fees low and without any worries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai?

The best part is the caching process. The way it caches in the nearby areas is really worth appreciating. I have been using Akamai CDN since quite a long time i.e. around 5 years till now and its doing great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

As of now there is nothing much that I can think of as dislike in Akamai COntent delivery Network i.e. CDN. I believe they can improvise the plans though. But again, its not that necessary. Guys are doing great job Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Like I said, Akamai Content delivery Network i.e. CDN is helping people to fetch data from the internet with lightning-fast speed. It helps organizations to aggregate more and more data in limited amount of time. Proxy services are also of great use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhruval J.
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What do you like best about Akamai?

Our best alternative for content delivery network is Akamai after Cloudflare. We have a lot of customers for those we have developed custom software, and on each case, Akamai has given us precisely what we need. Also it is quick and simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

Akamai's preliminary configuration is hard to understand, and the API is difficult to implement. We also encountered initial issues with large pictures and videos struggling to load, which demanded extra development work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use this for Streaming mainly, one of our clients has an online image editing tool, which requires heavy transfers of stock images. We use Akamai for enterprise use only, it offers a robust API to scale and a better solution category. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai?

Akamai is simple to onboard into your environment. The Dashboard is easy to navigate, and reports and overviews into security issues can be accessed quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

Web Security was only able to protect ports 80 and 443 sites, so there were sites like Citrix Gateways that I was not able to monitor with Akamai due to the port restrictions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai:

We switched from Imperva WAF to Akamai and were impressed with how easy it was to integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Secures perimeter sites, plus easy access to Edge DNS plus SIEM Collector integration. Increased productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai?

The speed, earlier days - I remember those days where I grab a cup of coffee when a link is clicked and after I come back, I get to see what I wanted. Akamai changed everything into Milliseconds and I've stopped taking coffee during work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

Akamai's cdn is a wonderful and thoughtful product. There is nothing to dislike unless if somebody wants to be too lazy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's the speed and security associated with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mallayasamy K.
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What do you like best about Akamai?

It helps to cache clear for CDN and is able to generate the traffic reports and block the unwanted IP. it helps to do the load test, performance testing, and optimize for the mobile and web user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai?

A little bit lagging for support as well as alert. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai:

Good load balancing tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

cleared the akamai cache to reflect the content in the website immediately Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.