, Lead Dog
Digital, and Plexus Technologies, are among the first companies to be
trained and certified to implement ESI, extending the performance and
cost-saving benefits of dynamic content and applications assembly to their
customers.
"The centralized model of Web serving has shifted towards more efficient
infrastructure technologies that leverage the Internet`s edge for
distributed computing. As a result, the development of ESI is one such
technology that will greatly impact the way enterprise applications are
written and deployed in the future," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice
president, Akamai. "Expanding the ecosystem of companies that share
Akamai`s vision for ESI will help to ultimately make the implementation of
edge delivery services a natural step for enterprises."
Akamai provides a range of training and certification programs that enable
systems integrators and technology consulting providers to build offerings
for their customers that leverage ESI and Akamai`s EdgeSuiteSM service. As
businesses continue to outsource certain infrastructure requirements to
cost-effectively enhance performance, scalability, and reliability,
Akamai-certified systems integrators can realize a competitive advantage by
developing and maintaining industry-leading expertise in ESI implementation
across multiple application server and content management systems.
Most Web pages today are generated on demand for individual users and
contain a mix of personalized and non-personalized content fragments, making
them non-cacheable by traditional caching products and content delivery
network (CDN) services. Announced on April 30, and recently published as a
W3C Note, the ESI language enables dynamic assembly of these page fragments.
As a result, businesses now can develop highly dynamic Web-based
applications that are assembled at the edge of the data center, or at the
edge of the Internet, for improved performance. Leveraging ESI, the Akamai
EdgeSuite service enables the generation and delivery of dynamic content by
constructing Web pages from component pieces that can be targeted and
delivered from locations optimized for each end user.
Systems Integrators Support ESI
"Our goal is to help our clients achieve the best user experience for their
constituents," said Timothy Appnel, director of technology, AGENCY.COM. "We
need to provide the capability for high performance delivery of rich dynamic
Web functionality in a reliable manner and ESI allows us to do this."
"Working with Akamai to leverage ESI enables us to create Web sites for our
customers that minimize their infrastructure requirements," said Mark
Zilbert, director of client relations, BURNdevelopment. "Our Akamai
certification as integrators of this next-generation Internet infrastructure
technology allows us to provide our U.S. and international clients with
cost-effective and reliable content distribution and localization."
"Fort Point`s clients are focused on one thing: Return On Investment.
Working with ESI supports both sides of the ROI equation. On the revenue
side, improved performance leads directly to higher levels of customer
satisfaction and resulting revenue improvements," said John Strain,
executive vice president of solutions, Fort Point Partners. "On the cost
side, ESI reduces both the cost and complexity of deploying next-generation
Web applications, while adding the benefits of on-demand scalability,
interoperability across multiple vendors, and support for existing
applications."
"By collaborating with Akamai to take advantage of ESI, Kanda will ensure
that, in addition to our comprehensive range of offerings, customers will
have the ability to reliably deliver dynamic content and Web applications,"
said Levi Glozman, vice president of development, Kanda Software. "ESI
enables application server, content management server and content delivery
technologies to integrate seamlessly, enhancing the total performance of
truly dynamic Web pages and applications from the edge of the Internet."
"At , ESI gives our clients a distinct and significant competitive
advantage in reliably delivering rich aggregates of personalized content and
services," said Charles Wood, chief technology officer, . "The ease
with which the technology can be integrated and deployed, coupled with the
performance improvements and operational efficiencies that result from
pushing application processing to the edge of the network, makes ESI a truly
compelling offering."
"We see great value in extending the benefits of ESI and EdgeSuite to our
customers, who will begin to realize performance improvements, bandwidth
savings and increased infrastructure efficiencies," said Mike Matteo, chief
executive officer, Lead Dog Digital. "We`re excited to work with Akamai in
our on-going efforts to add value to our offerings that optimize performance
for our e-business and financial services customers."
"Plexus Technologies offers a broad array of value-chain integration
services and solutions that help our enterprise clients focus on their core
competencies by extending relevant information and transactional capability
across key partner, supplier and customer channels. Now with the benefits
of ESI, we see our relationship with Akamai as an integral final piece of
this strategy, helping enterprise clients to extend information through rich
and dynamic portal applications in a high-performance, high-availability and
cost effective manor," said Jeffrey Ford, director of North American sales,
Plexus Technologies. "ESI represents an important step towards how dynamic
Web applications will be deployed in the future and, through training and
certification, we`re ready to pass on these compelling cost and performance
advantages to our customers."
For more information on ESI, please visit www.esi.org .
About Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of distributed application and content
delivery services. These services enable companies to reduce the complexity
and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while
ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability.
Akamai`s services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and
provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai`s
intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application
delivery comprises more than 11,600 servers within over 820 networks in 62
countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides
services to companies worldwide. For information on Delivering a Better
InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
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prospects of Akamai`s management that constitute forward-looking statements
for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from
those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various
important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai`s
Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure,
the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is
deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other
factors that are discussed in the Company`s Annual Report on Form 10-K and
other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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