Akamai Technologies Updates Partner Program

Akamai Technologies Updates Partner Program

Akamai Systems is rolling out new enhancements to its flagship husband or wife software.

Akamai Partner Application updates consist of new pricing bargains, streamlined associate onboarding and offer administration, and insider access to Akamai authorities and solution information, the firm mentioned.

Akamai Updates Partner Application

The application, the latest edition of which was unveiled in January 2021, will offer added pricing bargains for new offers to channel companions up-entrance, which the business suggests will enable align economic benefits with the goals of field product sales professionals, guaranteeing that incentives are aligned. The streamlined onboarding procedure will allow for new channel partners accessibility the platform far more speedily, the business stated.

In the coming months, Akamai claims it will roll out a collection of improvements that make it less complicated to register and manage new opportunities and streamline enterprise setting up and husband or wife overall performance administration.

Spouse articles assets are also getting up-to-date to be much more actionable, with extra consumable formats and simplified categorization, generating it less difficult for associates to entry the data they will need to be prosperous.

Akamai’s Spouse Method Updates: Executive Commentary

Paul Joseph, EVP, Global Product sales and Expert services, Akamai

Giovanni Cicu, CEO at Defenx and Fidogroup, an Akamai companion, commented:

“We have enjoyed a trusted and limited marriage with Akamai due to the fact 2004. Defenx started as a buyer, starting to be an elite spouse appropriate just after that — we see our crew as an extension of Akamai’s individual. We have worked with Akamai to enter new marketplaces and scale our company globally, shielding our buyers and delivering the finest practical experience.”

Jose Dias, CEO, Arturai, a BV Tech corporation, an Akamai associate, claimed:

“We’ve liked partnering with Akamai given that 2001. Collectively, we have a deep understanding of the current market and out there options, combining Cloud & Enterprise Security with Cloud optimization platforms that let us to assistance on the internet corporations supply safe and optimized user ordeals. We’re fired up to carry on our collaboration and take edge of the enhancements to the Akamai Companion Program.”

Paul Joseph, EVP, World Revenue and Products and services, Akamai, added:

“Our channel associates are vital to Akamai’s continued advancement. These Companion System enhancements recognize the solid joint worth that shoppers are noticing from our integrated choices. We are committed to currently being the husband or wife of alternative in our industry and will keep on to evolve our Lover Application to guarantee we are completely aligned with the requires of our partners and their buyers.”

Akamai Technologies To Acquire Cloud Storage Technology Company Ondat

Akamai Technologies To Acquire Cloud Storage Technology Company Ondat

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud firm that powers and shields existence on-line, today announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ondat, a cloud-primarily based storage technology company with a Kubernetes-indigenous platform for functioning stateful apps wherever at scale. Ondat’s technological know-how delivers persistent storage instantly onto any Kubernetes cluster for managing enterprise-significant, stateful purposes safely and securely throughout any public, personal and hybrid clouds. The acquisition of Ondat’s cloud storage technological innovation and its sector-regarded talent is meant to bolster Akamai’s cloud computing offerings.

“Final thirty day period we shared particulars of Akamai Related Cloud, the world’s most distributed system for cloud computing, safety, and content material shipping and delivery,” stated Adam Karon, chief functioning officer and general manager, Cloud Technology Group, Akamai Technologies. “Storage is a vital part of cloud computing and Ondat’s technology will increase Akamai’s storage abilities, enabling us to present a fundamentally various method to cloud that integrates core and dispersed computing websites with a massively scaled edge network.”

Ondat’s workforce, which include founder and chief technological innovation officer Alex Chircop, will be a part of Akamai’s cloud computing small business.

Akamai Related Cloud is a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, protection, and written content supply that retains applications and experiences closer and threats farther absent. Akamai’s cloud computing expert services help developers to develop, run and safe very performant workloads closer to anywhere businesses and users join on the web. In creating out Akamai Related Cloud, Akamai is introducing main and distributed internet sites on major of the very same underlying backbone that powers its edge community today — spanning much more than 4,100 areas throughout 134 international locations. Much more especially, Akamai is inserting compute, storage, databases and other expert services closer to big inhabitants, market and IT facilities.

Ondat, headquartered in London, U.K., is a privately funded enterprise. The acquisition is predicted to near in the initially quarter of 2023. Akamai anticipates no substance effect to the company’s financial steerage for 2023 as a outcome of the transaction.

For additional info, check out the Akamai cloud computing alternatives page.

About Akamai

Akamai powers and protects everyday living on the internet. Major providers around the globe choose Akamai to develop, deliver, and secure their electronic ordeals — aiding billions of people reside, get the job done, and perform every single working day. With the world’s most dispersed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it straightforward for clients to acquire and operate purposes, whilst we retain experiences closer to consumers and threats farther away. Study far more about Akamai’s safety, compute, and shipping and delivery alternatives at akamai.com and akamai.com/weblog, or adhere to Akamai Technologies on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Akamai Stock Tumbles on New Cloud Computing Push

Akamai Stock Tumbles on New Cloud Computing Push

Akamai Technologies is making a bet that it can compete head-to-head with the giant in the cloud computing market, and investors are not sure they like the idea.

Akamai (ticker: AKAM) posted fourth-quarter results late Tuesday, and the stock inched higher after hours. But the company’s guidance for both the quarter and the full year fell a little short of Wall Street estimates, and analyst reaction to the quarter was chilly.

The decline has less to do with the results than the company’s shifting business priorities. Akamai has three primary businesses. It was a pioneer in content delivery networks, which websites use to improve their performance. It provides security software, in a natural extension of that CDN business. And starting with the company’s $900 million acquisition of Linode in March 2022, Akamai expanded into the vast but hypercompetitive cloud computing market. 

Now Akamai is going all in on the cloud—CEO Tom Leighton told Barron’s in an interview on Tuesday that he thinks the cloud business will eventually account for the majority of Akamai’s revenue.

There were a few other issues with the report. While content delivery network revenue was better-than-expected in the quarter, for instance, security software revenue missed estimates, and Wall Street analysts were also overly optimistic about the growth of the security business for the full year.

But the big issue is that Akamai is going to boost capital spending substantially to build out its cloud arm. Earlier on Tuesday, the company unveiled the Akamai Connected Cloud, along with plans to sharply increase its roster of cloud computing sites in 2023. Guggenheim analyst Ramond McDonnough, who maintains a Sell rating on the stock with a $75 target price, points out that Akamai expects heavy capital spending this year as a percentage of revenue—21{b7c9e2c88beb1a84f22d94ab877a147f4adc4b3519717f3f957a0f34e16918d1}, compared with the Wall Street consensus forecast of 14{b7c9e2c88beb1a84f22d94ab877a147f4adc4b3519717f3f957a0f34e16918d1}.

RBC Capital analyst Rishi Jaluria responded to the report by cutting his rating on the stock to Sector Perform from Outperform, while chopping his target price to $85, from $100. “The major story of the earnings call…was the clear change in strategy in going all-in” on cloud computing, he wrote. “We shift to the sidelines as we believe this move alters the risk-reward profile, and we would wait for evidence it can pay off before getting back involved.”

Among other concerns, Jaluria notes that Akamai seems intent on competing with the large cloud players—Amazon’s (AMZN) AWS, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Azure, and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google Cloud—on price. “If Akamai is successful, hyperscale cloud vendors can cut prices themselves,” he writes.

Needham analyst Alex Henderson, who maintains his Hold rating on Akamai shares, thinks investors will view the company’s shift in focus to cloud computing from security as a “lower visibility strategy,” which will involve a multiyear transition, starting with an intense investment phase.

Akamai shares on Wednesday are down 9.8{b7c9e2c88beb1a84f22d94ab877a147f4adc4b3519717f3f957a0f34e16918d1}, to $79.18, making it the second worst performer in the S&P 500 on the day, behind Devon Energy (DVN).

Write to Eric J. Savitz at eric.savitz@barrons.com