Customer-oriented, one-stop service empowers enterprises' digital transformation needs

From cross-border e-commerce to new energy vehicle exports, to short videos and games... In recent years, "going global" has become the core business of many companies. Although the maturity of cloud computing has helped many companies solve many problems in the process of "going global", for many small and medium-sized enterprises, how to reduce the cost of using the cloud, ensure data security compliance and network security, and improve business agility have also become the main challenges facing them.

Vice President and General Manager of Akamai Greater China Li Sheng

Talking about the difficulties encountered by enterprises when going overseas, Li Sheng, vice president of Akamai and general manager of Greater China, said in a recent interview with reporters that we continue to build the world's leading application delivery platform and continue to ensure the platform's performance, scalability, high stability, and high-security network to help enterprises build simple and easy-to-develop computing technology and enable their business development.

Eight advantages enable enterprises to go global

In today's digital age, cloud computing has become the first choice for more and more companies and the main way for them to go global. To this day, companies still face many challenges in the process of deploying cloud computing, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, which face more difficulties.

Senior Strategic Sales Director, Akamai Zhang Ke

According to Zhang Ke, senior strategic sales director of Akamai , the cost pressure of cloud migration, how to make cloud infrastructure closer to users, and cloud vendor lock-in are still the three major challenges faced by enterprises in the process of using cloud computing. To this end, Akamai helps enterprises better use public clouds by providing eight advantages: low latency and high throughput traffic, high scalability and high availability, more competitive unit prices, rich development tools and APIs, cloud neutrality, meeting local data storage requirements, localized infrastructure that reaches more targets, and multi-cloud capabilities .

Zhang Ke said that Akamai 's customers are divided into those who focus on overseas markets and those who focus on local businesses. Undoubtedly, Akamai's traditional users are from the former, that is, users who focus on overseas markets. However, in the past few years, this boundary has been gradually blurred . Over the past decade, Akamai has accumulated rich experience and hopes to use this experience to better serve customers, including users in different regions and countries, to meet their business development needs.

It is understood that Akamai serves 95 of the top 100 e-commerce companies in the world and almost all major cross-border e-commerce platforms in China, helping them promote high-quality Chinese-made products to markets and consumers around the world.

Li Sheng emphasized that Akamai provides 24/7 technical service capabilities for overseas users and has the ability to troubleshoot problems together with local operators . In addition, in terms of hardware services , Akamai has the most widely distributed infrastructure in the world, with more than 4,000 nodes around the world , including Southeast Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Europe. At the same time, Akamai also has extremely rich experience in data protection and network security. It can be said that from the perspective of computing, storage, distribution and security , Akamai is the most balanced cloud service provider in the trinity.

According to reports, Akamai has further expanded its cloud and edge computing ecosystem partners by launching the QCP (Qualified Computing Partner Program), adding a number of partners based on open source technology and Akamai cloud computing platform solutions around the world to help companies quickly build their own cloud computing architecture and applications, helping them better utilize cloud-native technology and truly enjoy the efficiency brought by multi-cloud.

One-stop service meets all users' cloud needs

Akamai Connected Cloud is Akamai 's core product. Akamai hopes to meet all user needs for building applications, content delivery, network data security, etc. on the cloud through this product, providing users with one-stop services and improving user experience.

Head of Akamai's Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Expert Team Li Wentao

Li Wentao, head of Akamai's Asia Pacific cloud computing expert team, gave a detailed introduction to the advantages of Akamai Connected Cloud in cloud computing.

First, it is globally distributed. Akamai has 24 core nodes and more than 4,000 edge nodes around the world, which can help users deploy applications near end users , improve user experience, and reduce latency.

Second, a simple pricing system can help users simplify cloud spending and cloud financial management. Compared with other cloud vendors, Akamai has very competitive outbound traffic fees.

Third, it is easy to use . Akamai's cloud computing platform is quick to use and very developer- friendly . At the same time , it provides very comprehensive after-sales services to help users quickly innovate their business.

Fourth, open source . First, Akamai's product system focuses on the basic building blocks of cloud computing, including virtual machines, containers, cloud storage, cloud networks , etc. Since Akamai does not focus too much on hosted private services, but helps users build cloud-neutral applications with open source software, they only need to build them once and they can run on multiple clouds.

It is understood that Akamai is building cloud technologies to meet market needs in the next decade, especially in edge computing.

Li Wentao said that in the past few years, Akamai has continuously expanded its cloud computing capacity around the world to support the growth of its customers' businesses . According to customer feedback, using the Akamai cloud platform can achieve excellent energy efficiency. In the future, Akamai will continue to innovate in the field of cloud computing by leveraging its advantages accumulated over the years in the network and edge, and will better serve Chinese customers going overseas .

Customer-oriented business service vision

Looking ahead to 2024, what will Akamai focus on? Li Sheng also gave a clear answer.

Li Sheng said that in 2024, Akamai will continue to be customer business service-oriented and focus on the development trends of different industries , including high-tech manufacturing, smart device manufacturing, overseas game exports, social media , etc. , to better provide users with cloud computing, content delivery, network security and other services.

Li Sheng emphasized that many customers in the industry are no longer blindly pursuing rapid expansion of user base, but are more focused on refined operations and are very concerned about future profitability. To this end, we will continue to provide customers with cost-effective services and further strengthen our capabilities in preventing data leakage and data compliance .

At the same time, Akamai also announced its intentions in three major areas: content delivery, network security, and cloud computing.

Akamai 's vision for the entire content delivery is to continue to build the world's leading application delivery platform and provide outstanding efficiency, security, high scalability and high stability.

When it comes to cybersecurity, Akamai 's mission is to protect enterprises and their applications, data, employees and customers from all forms of cyber-attacks.

When it comes to cloud computing, Akamai 's mission is to provide simple, developer-friendly computing technology at affordable and transparent prices, with enterprise-class scale, reliability, security and compliance, and closer to where businesses and users connect.

With 25 years of technological innovation and excellent service, Akamai has transformed its accumulation in edge computing, edge zones and edge networks into extremely easy-to-use cloud services to better meet customer needs . Through efficient and reliable edge computing solutions, it helps customers achieve digital transformation and stand out in the fierce market competition.