Akamai Cloudlets extend and customise the Akamai platform, shortening
web experience development time to market, with specific functionality to
manage formats and performance.
Akamai Cloudlets Speed Web Experience Development & Delivery |
Akamai TechnologiesCloudlets are software extensions to Akamai systems that are designed to shorten development time to market and reduce demands on an organisation’s internal IT infrastructure. Each one has specific functionality that is accessed via theAkamai Intelligent Platform, the company’s cloud platform for delivering user experiences to devices, and manages device and format variation, application and network security, performance and reliability. |
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One early adopter of Akamai Cloudlets is EL AL Israel Airlines through Akamai partner ITWay Solutions. According to Patrick Perelsztejn, web infrastructure & technologies coordinator for the airline, "Due to Web site restructuring, we had to immediately set up 5,000 redirects to preserve the link equity of our search engine optimization. When we first started looking, there didn’t seem to be an easy, flexible way for us to do this. ButEdge Redirectorhelped us manage this large number of URL redirects and avoid the cost associated with custom software." |
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As well as for SEO, Edge Redirector is intended to help manage URL redirects, including 301 and 302, for marketing campaigns or site content and architectural changes. Technical and non-technical users can manage redirect rules themselves with a rules based UI and included API, and handle large volumes of redirects on the Akamai Intelligent Platform. Bulk upload redirects can be made via the .csv format. Visitor Prioritisationis designed to create a waiting room-style experience when back end applications become overloaded due to surges in visitor traffic. It can help prevent visitors from abandoning the site when application capacity becomes scarce. Customers can avoid the cost of building out and maintaining infrastructure to support spikes in traffic that would otherwise be under-utilised. The Cloudlet affords control of the traffic accessing data centre resources during traffic surges, instead supplying an engaging, branded experience for overflow traffic if needed. It can also protect against site outages during high value, high maintenance events and preserve application capacity for valuable transactions. |
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Cloudlets are available to Akamai customers now and can be accessed, trialed, purchased, and deployed through theLuna Control Centre. www.akamai.com |