Akamai unveils open platform initiative

BANGALORE, INDIA: Akamai Technologies Inc., provider of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing online content and business applications, today introduced the Akamai Open Platform Initiative during the company's sixth annual Edge customer conference.

Designed to give customers and partners the ability to more easily architect for Akamai services, the set of programs and components that comprise the Open Platform Initiative is intended to create more opportunities for community collaboration and innovation, and provide deeper visibility into and greater control of how enterprises interact with Akamai technology.

Through the Open Platform Initiative, Akamai provides some new capabilities to help users get the most out of their investment in the Akamai Intelligent Platform. These are system development operations integration, real-time big data integration, and single-point user interface.

One core element of the Open Platform Initiative leverages Application Programming Interface (API) expert Apiary to expose the Akamai Intelligent Platform's APIs to developers, customers and partners. Akamai grants simplified access to Akamai's platform for better and easier integration with home-grown as well as third party technologies and applications.