Akamai

https://www.akamai.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies/

Akamai Technologies, a publicly owned company founded in 1998 and headquartered in the US, employs approximately 9160 people. Its primary business is providing connectivity and distribution services, encompassing content delivery network (CDN) operations, cybersecurity solutions, and cloud services. In 2024, the company reported revenues exceeding $1 billion.

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Founded

1998

Headcount

9,151

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Enterprise and telecoms software

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Publicly Owned

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Akamai reported that 46% of its revenue now comes from security, marking a shift from its origins as a content delivery network (CDN) provider to a global cloud security leader. A video featuring Arvind Ganesan, India Business Head for BFSI Enterprise & Public Sector, discussed Akamai's cybersecurity approach for the public sector in India. Another video showcased a collaboration with Queue-it, demonstrating how to manage peak traffic moments and ensure smooth customer experiences using virtual waiting rooms integrated with Akamai EdgeWorkers. Finally, internal communications highlighted Jay Jenkins, CTO for cloud computing services, and Ben Barnea, a Security Researcher, describing their roles within the company.

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

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Akamai's revenues were $4.0B in 2024. Caretta Research has split Akamai's revenue into 14 different product categories, the largest of which is telecoms network orchestration, which represents 49% of Akamai's revenue.

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4th

2025

10:06

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SecurityWeek

Dec

4th

2025

09:53

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

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CXOToday

Dec

4th

2025

08:20

B2B Tag

Akamai Patches HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability in Edge Servers

A critical HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in Akamai’s edge server infrastructure has been successfully fixed. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-66373, stemmed from improper processing of HTTP requests containing invalid chunk-encoded bodies, potentially exposing thousands of customers to sophisticated attacks.

Cyber Security News

Dec

4th

2025

08:15

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Akamai Accelerates API Monetization for AccuWeather® with New Zuplo API Gateway Partnership

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today announced a partnership with Zuplo that is transforming how AccuWeather ® , the most trusted source of weather forecasts and warnings with proven Superior Accuracy ™ , delivers and monetizes its APIs.

CXOToday

Dec

4th

2025

02:50

Emerging Tech

The Bandwidth Economy: Turning Viewers into the Network

TL;DR: The internet wasn’t built for real-time video. Early networks handled text and static files, not today’s latency-sensitive live streams. Video now dominates global internet traffic , accounting for well over half of downstream usage. Content Delivery Network (CDN) operators such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Amazon (CloudFront), and Google have scaled to meet some of this demand, collectively pushing hundreds of Tbps.

Medium

Dec

4th

2025

01:09

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Ceeblue Delivered Subsecond Streaming on Akamai

Share “With Akamai, we have demonstrated a quick, nondisruptive path to subsecond end-to-end latencies worldwide.” Lawton Cheney, CCO, Ceeblue Delivering real-time video that drives revenue Ceeblue, a Netherlands-based innovator in ultra-low-latency streaming, faced the challenge of delivering subsecond streams for a sports betting customer on an accelerated timeline while keeping the customer’s Akamai-based workflows intact.

Akamai

Dec

4th

2025

01:09

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Multivrse Trusted Akamai to Power Its Growth

Share “As long as Multivrse exists, we’ll be on Akamai. The relationship is just that critical.” Amol Patankar, Founder, Multivrse Enabling global conversations Multivrse Digital, a multilingual enablement company based in Australia, faced a common but pressing challenge: growing cloud costs, inconsistent support, and complexity with AWS were beginning to slow momentum.

Akamai

Dec

4th

2025

00:57

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Akamai Firewall for AI

Enterprises like yours are making massive investments in AI. From conversational AI apps that improve customer service to agentic AI systems that solve mission-critical business challenges. But the rush to innovate opens doors to new threats.

Akamai

Dec

3rd

2025

20:03

Emerging Tech

5 Critical Pillars of Modern API Management You Need to Know

The ability to design, develop, and launch APIs has become a strategic imperative for organizations worldwide. APIs have become the connective tissue powering nearly every digital product and service today, representing ~83% of total requests on the internet*, and are growing 2X faster than all other web traffic**.

Traefik

Dec

3rd

2025

20:00

Emerging Tech

Lessons from Smart Switching: Rethinking Security and Performance

Share In the first part of this three-part series, we are going to rethink the relationship between security and performance. For years, enterprise leaders have felt locked into a trade-off: stronger network security equals slower systems.

Akamai

Dec

3rd

2025

18:28

Artificial Intelligence

KubeCon North America 2025 Retrospective: Closed Source And Open Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud

The 10th anniversary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta was both a celebration of progress in the open-source community and a moment of reflection about the challenges facing that same community amid change — specifically, as “the cloud” becomes “the AI-native cloud,” one powered principally by NVIDIA’s AI hardware and related proprietary software stack.

Forrester

Dec

3rd

2025

16:30

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Akamai accelerates API monetisation for AccuWeather® with new Zuplo API Gateway partnership

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

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