CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM - News), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced insight gained into the return on investment of its Web Application Acceleration managed services.

By implementing application acceleration through a managed services approach, enterprises can deploy bandwidth-intensive applications in IT environments without sacrificing network performance or compromising broader IT cost-saving initiatives. The approach is designed to lessen the need to invest in additional servers, bandwidth, or application acceleration network equipment to support distributed application usage, reducing up-front capital expenditures as well as the IT staff time needed to deploy and manage the application acceleration implementation. The managed services approach can also help enterprises provide consistent high availability and performance to geographically dispersed end users.

A recently published IDC whitepaper sponsored by Akamai1 assesses and quantifies the business benefits of Akamai's Web Application Accelerator solution. Based on the actual results of 12 enterprise customers, including comScore and ETS, the IDC whitepaper reports an average cost savings of $1.8M per optimized application for enterprises using Akamai Web Application Acceleration Services in the first year. The enterprises also experienced an average total return on investment in the first 2.2 months after implementation, and 580 percent ROI based on IT cost savings alone.

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