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

Li Sheng, Vice President of Akamai and General Manager of Greater China

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

Eight major advantages empower enterprises to go global on the cloud

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

Akamai Senior Strategic Sales Director Zhang Ke

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

Zhang Ke said that Akamai 's customers are divided into users who are more focused on going overseas and customers who are more focused on local business. There is no doubt that Akamai's traditional users come from the former, that is, users who focus on overseas markets. But in the past few years, this boundary has slowly blurred . Over the past ten years, Akamai has accumulated rich experience and hopes to use this experience to better serve customers, including users in different regions and countries, and meet their business development needs.

It is understood that Akamai has served a total of 95 of the top 100 e-commerce companies in the world, and has also served almost all key cross-border e-commerce platforms in China, helping them promote high-quality products made in China 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 work with local operators to troubleshoot problems . 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 a good layout in 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 Akamai is the most balanced cloud service provider in the trinity from the perspective of computing, storage, distribution and security .

According to reports, Akamai has further expanded its cloud and edge computing ecological partners by launching the QCP (Qualified Computing Partner Program) partner program, adding some partners based on open source technology and Akamai cloud computing platform solutions around the world to help enterprises 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 migration needs

Akamai Connected Cloud is Akamai 's core product. Akamai hopes to use this product to simultaneously meet all the needs of users in building applications on the cloud, content delivery, network data security, etc., provide users with one-stop services, and improve the user experience.

Li Wentao, head of Akamai Asia Pacific cloud computing expert team

Li Wentao, head of Akamai's Asia Pacific cloud computing expert team, introduced in detail the advantages of Akamai Connected Cloud in cloud computing.

One is global distribution. 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.

The second is a simple price system that can help users simplify cloud expenditures and cloud financial management burdens. Compared with other cloud vendors, Akamai has very competitive outbound traffic charges.

Third, it is simple and easy to use . The Akamai cloud computing platform is quick to use and very developer- friendly . At the same time , it provides very comprehensive after-sales services, which can help users quickly carry out business innovation.

The fourth is open source and open source . First of all, 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 rather helps users build cloud-neutral applications using open source software, they only need to be built once and can run on multiple clouds.

It is understood that Akamai is building cloud technology for the market needs in the next ten years, especially in edge computing.

Li Wentao said that in the past few years, Akamai has continued to expand its global cloud computing capacity to support the growth of customer business . Judging from 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 through its advantages accumulated over the years in the network and edge , and will better serve Chinese customers overseas .

Customer business service-oriented vision

Looking forward 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 gaming, social media, etc. , to better provide users with cloud computing, content Delivery, network security and other services.

Li Sheng emphasized that many track customers no longer blindly pursue rapid expansion of user numbers, 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 data leakage prevention and data compliance .

At the same time, Akamai also announced its intentions in three major directions: 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 excellent efficiency, security, high scalability and high stability.

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

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

With 25 years of technological innovation and service excellence, Akamai has transformed its accumulation in edge computing, edge areas, and edge networks into extremely easy-to-use cloud services to better meet customer needs through efficient and reliable edge Computing solutions help customers achieve digital transformation and stand out in fierce market competition.