Content Delivery Network (CDN) firm, Akamai Technologies has teamed up with Microsoft to integrate its Akamai CDN into Microsoft Azure cloud. The forthcoming Azure CDN offering is designed to optimize performance of content and applications deployed and delivered on Azure.
As part of the companies’ expanded relationship, Microsoft is also bringing to market a series of first-party services that include Akamai’s market-leading CDN, acceleration and security solutions. Microsoft enterprise customers will be able to purchase any Akamai offering as “self-select” options through the Azure portal or as part of their organization’s Microsoft enterprise agreement. In addition, customers will receive integrated, one-stop service and support from Microsoft and Akamai.
Microsoft customers are expected to be able to purchase an Azure CDN offering and deploy on the Akamai Network architecture via the Azure portal in early 2016. In addition, a managed roll-out of Microsoft first-party services for CDN, acceleration and security based on Akamai will be available to targeted enterprises next month, said Akamai.
Bill Staples, Corporate Vice President, App Platform, Microsoft Azure
The Azure CDN combines the intelligent cloud services of the Azure platform with the delivery advantages of Akamai’s world-class and massively-distributed CDN. Further, Azure customers can leverage Akamai’s unique CDN, acceleration and security product portfolio that can be managed and purchased through a single enterprise agreement.
Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai
We believe the power of the Azure platform combined with the reach and scale of Akamai’s CDN opens a wealth of new possibilities for building and delivering highly-effective, cloud-based solutions for a host of applications.
