Expanded Relationship with Akamai Enables Integrated, āOne-clickā Access to Industryās Leading CDN Platform
Bangalore, India ā May 06, 2015 – RackspaceĀ® (NYSE: RAX), the #1 managed cloud company; today announced the launch of Rackspace Content Delivery Network (CDN).Ā This new service is powered by Akamai Technologies, the global leader in CDN services. With the launch of the Rackspace CDN offering, Rackspace and Akamai are expanding their longāstanding relationship to offer customers integrated, āone-clickā access to Akamaiās industry-leading CDN services via the Rackspace portal. Rackspace CDN will help customers more easily and efficiently deliver entire websites or web applications with global scale and reliability through on-demand access to the Akamai Intelligent Platform.
Research suggests that nearly half of web users tend to leave a website and abandon their search or purchase if the desired page doesnāt load in the first 3 seconds.[1]Ā Rackspace CDN allows businesses to deliver website content and applications to their customers faster, helping to improve site traffic and customer engagement.
āThe integration of Akamaiās CDN into our cloud platform allows us to create an on demand, utility-based, content delivery solution, which expands the Rackspace managed cloud portfolio,ā said Steve Crusenberry, senior vice president, infrastructure at Rackspace. āAs more of our customers focus on the performance of their digital platform, our new CDN solution will give them a faster, more reliable way to deliver website content to their customers across the world.Ā Our relationship with Akamai is an example of our commitment toĀ provide Fanatical SupportĀ® with industry leading technologies for all of our customers. Ā Weāre proud to be fulfilling our commitment with todayās launch of Rackspace CDN.”
With Rackspace CDN, customers now have a competitive advantage, as they will be able to scale out their worldwide presence efficiently without massive infrastructure investments. Rackspaceās ability to provision enterprise services at scale is a
hallmark of Fanatical Support. During the early access program, Rackspace CDN specialists were able to provision 300 customers in less than 24 hours.
āThrough this strategic relationship, Rackspace customers can benefit from even easier, faster access to the global scale, reach and performance of the Akamai CDN,ā said John Sconyers, senior director, Cloud Services Partners, Akamai. āThis integration can help users quickly turn on CDN capabilities, using APIs, through Rackspace and immediately take advantage of the ability to offload full web sites and web applications.ā