As part of the agreement, Compaq Global Services will resell EdgeSuite, Akamai’s flagship service that enables the assembly, presentation and delivery of an enterprise’s data and applications via Akamai’s global network. Akamai will designate Compaq as a preferred vendor of servers Compaq’s market-leading ProLiant(TM) servers and related support to power Akamai’s global content delivery network.
Compaq will license Akamai’s EdgeScape content-targeting technology to provide its services organization with applications and diagnostic tools for analyzing web user data, and to design intelligent site architecture for enterprises. As a flagship Akamai Consulting Partner, Compaq Global Services sales and technical forces will be trained and certified to integrate ESI* and resell EdgeSuite, creating the largest organization of ESI-certified professionals in the industry.
This partnership will help customers get even the most dynamic of content to their users around the world faster and more reliably, said Thracy Varvoglis, vice president, Compaq Global Services. With certified Compaq consultants integrating EdgeSuite with Oracle’s 9iAS delivered on Compaq servers this relationship will help us drive Compaq’s strategy of providing innovation through mission-critical services and partnerships.
Compaq Global Services makes it possible for far more enterprises to secure world-class services and products on a global scale from a single source, said George Conrades, Akamai Chairman and CEO. As CIOs think about migrating their information technology infrastructures to a Web-based platform, they will benefit from the superior technology of our EdgeSuite service combined seamlessly with the high-level services that Compaq delivers. Through this agreement with Compaq, one of the largest consulting organizations in the world will be able to sell the value of application and content distribution via EdgeSuite.
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