Akamai Introduces Terra Cloud Catalyst For Public Cloud Providers

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the cloud platform provider for delivering secure, high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere, has introduced Terra Cloud Catalyst. Specifically designed for public cloud providers, Terra Cloud Catalyst can help make it easier for hosted storage, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors of all sizes to offer Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN) services to their customers. Cloud providers further benefit from Terra Cloud Catalyst features such as incremental customer activation, pricing and billing models that closely align to the way they serve their users.

Even the biggest cloud service providers tend to operate from a limited number of large datacentres. This scenario can lead to performance impacts for their customers’ most distant users. Issues such as latency and congestion only compound the problem especially for smaller providers or those operating regionally. For providers that are not in a position to expand their datacentres’ capacity or establish a more global footprint, the ability to easily tap into a hyper-distributed CDN – one that can put their customers’ content a single network hop away from 90 percent of Internet users and mitigate other potential performance challenges – is a compelling value proposition.

Terra Cloud Catalyst is intended to meet the distinct needs of today’s IaaS, PaaS and hosted storage vendors. The new service builds on decades of experience as the leader in CDN technology and brings to market a means for public cloud providers of all sizes to seamlessly integrate Akamai technology into their platforms. Doing so allows them to easily offer customers affordable subscriptions to core CDN capabilities or differentiate their own services through improved performance and a global presence.

Because Terra Cloud Catalyst takes advantage of Akamai’s market-leading technology, cloud providers’ customers can also benefit from advanced services such as failover, SSL delivery, streaming video, and support for custom URLs, among others. As public cloud adoption matures, the intent is that providers will be able to use Terra Cloud Catalyst to leverage an evenbroader set of services that run on the Akamai Intelligent Platform to provide even greater value to their customers and stand out from their competition.

Terra Cloud Catalyst is tailored to be easily implemented by cloud providers who wish to extend the core benefits of the Akamai Intelligent Platform to their customers in a manner and at a price point that maps to how cloud services are typically consumed.

“As cloud adoption continues to increase, the need for cloud providers to differentiate their current services and prepare forfuture customer demands is paramount to ongoing success,” said Willie M. Tejada, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Cloud Division, Akamai. “With the introduction of Terra Cloud Catalyst, Akamai expects to deliver on both requirements by making it easier and more cost effective for cloud providers to use the power of the Akamai Intelligent Platform to differentiate their core offerings as well as introduce new and compelling services that will help them grow a loyal, satisfied customer base.”

Terra Cloud Catalyst is part of the Akamai Terra Enterprise Solutions product family that is intended to empower businesses to leverage the cloud for application adoption without borders while eliminating costly networks and specialised hardware.