Akamai

https://www.akamai.com/
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Akamai, also known as Akamai Technologies, is a publicly owned company headquartered in the US. Founded in 1998, with approximately 9,160 employees, the company reported $4.2B in revenue as of 2025, operating as a tier 1 media tech buyer. Specializing in enterprise and telecoms software, the company functions as a content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service provider offering web and Internet security services.

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1998

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9,151

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Enterprise and telecoms software

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Publicly Owned

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Akamai Technologies reported on March 13, 2026, a significant increase in cyberattacks orchestrated by geopolitically motivated hacktivists exploiting proxy services, which led to billions of connection attempts engineered for abuse. In response, Akamai issued seven key security recommendations to help organizations strengthen their defenses. Earlier the same day, Akamai announced that Digital Convergence Technologies (DCT), a system integration and digital transformation company, joined its Partner Connect Program. DCT's CEO, Vineet Dhawan, stated that the partnership aims to modernize legacy architectures and simplify complex cloud environments, enabling enterprises to gain control over their systems by moving away from closed black-box solutions and building flexible, cost-efficient, and scalable architectures.

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Akamai offers 19 products in the telecoms tech, connectivity and cloud, ad tech and services and media tech industries. Akamai's product portfolio comprises of video data and analytics, video processing and playout, connectivity and distribution services, enterprise security, telecoms network infrastructure, enterprise and telecoms software, ad measurement and verification, marketer and agency technology and enterprise cloud.

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Akamai's revenues were $4.2B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Akamai's revenue into 14 different product categories, the largest of which is telecoms network orchestration, which represents 40% of Akamai's revenue.

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Mar

19th

2026

07:56

New Offerings, Artificial Intelligence

Akamai Launches AI Grid Intelligent Orchestration for Distributed Inference Across 4,400 Edge Locations

Akamai Technologies today reached a major milestone in the evolution of artificial intelligence, unveiling the first global-scale implementation of NVIDIA® AI Grid reference design. By integrating NVIDIA AI infrastructure into Akamai’s infrastructure, and leveraging intelligent workload orchestration across its network, Akamai intends to move the industry beyond isolated AI factories toward a unified, distributed grid for AI inference.

CXOToday

Mar

19th

2026

06:25

Partnerships and Alliances

Tufin Partners with Akamai to Deliver Integrated Microsegmentation

Tufin and Akamai have teamed up to create an integrated security solution. This solution combines policy automation with microsegmentation, allowing enterprises to implement Zerto Trust strategies effectively. Their partnership brings together Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Tufins network security posture management platform.

ITDigest

Mar

18th

2026

22:00

B2B Tag

Akamai Technologies assists U.S. DOJ in dismantling major DDoS botnets

Akamai Technologies played a key role as the U.S. Department of Justice disrupted several extensive DDoS botnets and shut down associated DDoS-for-hire services. These coordinated operations underscore a growing trend toward private sector collaboration in government-led cybercrime enforcement.

Traders Union

Mar

18th

2026

20:34

B2B Tag

Cyberattacks Soar 245% as War Triggers Global Digital Offensive

Since the outbreak of the Middle East conflict on 28 February 2026, Akamai has seen a surge of 245% in cyberattacks against key businesses and institutions in North America, Europe, and some Asian Pacific countries. One group in particular, Handala (widely believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence) has claimed responsibility for a destructive data-wiping attack on Stryker , the global medical technology firm based in Michigan.

Techstreet Now

Mar

18th

2026

19:15

B2B Tag

Defend Together with Akamai: Engineering for Resiliency Across Control Planes Cyber Security Defend Together Defend Together with Akamai: Ensuring AI-Generated Code Is Secure with Active Testing Information Technology Cloud Computing IT Security IT Govern

Presented by Douglas Holland, Senior Solutions Engineer, Akamai

BrightTALK

Mar

18th

2026

18:30

B2B Tag

Akamai Helps Authorities Disrupt the World’s Largest IoT Botnets

Share The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), working alongside international partners, has disrupted several large and powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets and shut down their related DDoS-for-hire services . This operation marks a major step toward a safer internet and reflects the coordinated efforts of multiple parties, including Akamai.

Akamai

Mar

18th

2026

18:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Your APIs are under siege, and attackers are just getting warmed up

Internet-facing systems are handling sustained levels of malicious traffic across APIs, web applications, and DDoS channels. Akamai’s State of the Internet security report places these patterns within the same operating environment, with activity increasing across each area through 2025.

Help Net Security

Mar

18th

2026

17:30

Artificial Intelligence

Akamai to boost distributed cloud infra with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

Akamai has acquired thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to bolster its global distributed cloud infrastructure. The deployment creates a unified platform for AI R&D, fine-tuning, and post-training optimization that intelligently routes AI inference workloads to optimized compute resources across Akamai’s global network.

Frontier Enterprise

Mar

18th

2026

14:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

AI agent deployments spark skepticism at Akamai Technologies event

Akamai Technologies is raising questions about the real-world value delivered by AI agents, as growing deployments have not always equated to clear benefits for end users. At the recent #NVIDIAGTC conference, Akamai Technologies' Lena Hall explored whether AI agents live up to industry hype or remain underappreciated.

Traders Union

Mar

18th

2026

07:34

Partnerships and Alliances, New Offerings, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Tufin and Akamai Unite Policy Automation and Microsegmentation to Deliver Modern Zero Trust Security

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 18, 2026-- Tufin , the leader in network security posture management, today announced it has teamed with Akamai to introduce a new joint security solution. By integrating Akamai Guardicore Segmentation , the collaboration combines workload-level enforcement with centralized policy visibility to deliver modern Zero Trust security to the enterprise.

Associated Press

Mar

18th

2026

02:05

B2B Tag

Cyberattacks Soar 245% as War Triggers Global Digital Offensive

Since the outbreak of the Middle East conflict on 28 February 2026, Akamai has seen a surge of 245% in cyberattacks against key businesses and institutions in North America, Europe, and some Asian Pacific countries. One group in particular, Handala (widely believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence) has claimed responsibility for a destructive data-wiping attack on Stryker, the global medical technology firm based in Michigan.

Information Security Buzz

Mar

17th

2026

21:11

Partnerships and Alliances, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

NVIDIA, telecom leaders build AI grids to optimize inference on distributed networks

As AI‑native applications scale to more users, agents and devices, the telecommunications network is becoming the next frontier for distributing AI. At NVIDIA GTC 2026, leading operators in the U.S. and Asia showed that this shift is underway, announcing AI grids — geographically distributed and interconnected AI infrastructure — using their network footprint to power and monetize new AI services across the distributed edge.

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Akamai's customers primarily consist of retail and computer Games companies. Examples of Akamai's customers include Ubisoft, NBCUniversal and Riachuelo. Akamai has commercial and technical partners like Mirada, Bitmovin and Deloitte. Examples of Akamai's suppliers include Telestream, Nvidia and Hydrolix.

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