Akamai is one of the oldest names in making the internet fast and safe.
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Akamai is one of the oldest names in making the internet fast and safe. It grew out of MIT research and launched in 1998. Its home is Cambridge, Massachusetts.
For years Akamai meant one thing. Content delivery. It spread copies of websites and videos across thousands of servers worldwide so pages loaded quickly no matter where you sat. A huge share of global web traffic still flows through its network.
The company saw that content delivery would slowly commoditize. So it built two new engines for growth. Security came first. Akamai now blocks massive attacks, filters malicious bots, and guards apps and APIs for banks, retailers, and governments. Its Guardicore purchase added tools that stop threats from spreading inside a network.
Compute came next. Akamai bought Linode and turned its giant footprint into a cloud platform for running workloads close to users. Picture a game studio that needs low latency for players on six continents. Akamai can place compute near each region so the game feels snappy everywhere.
Revenue runs around $4 billion a year. Security and compute now drive most of the growth, while delivery provides a steady base. Akamai is a rare tech firm that reinvented itself twice and kept its footing through each shift.
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