Akamai Technologies (AKAM)

Akamai’s original business is content delivery. The company places servers close to end users across thousands of network locations, allowing websites, applications, video streams, downloads, and online services to load with lower latency and greater resilience. This edge architecture helps customers handle traffic spikes, improve performance, and reduce dependence on a single central data centre or cloud region.

Over time, Akamai has expanded well beyond its legacy content delivery network. Security has become a major part of the business, with products that help protect web applications, APIs, accounts, and infrastructure from attacks such as distributed denial-of-service events, credential abuse, bots, and application-layer threats. Its security tools benefit from the company’s broad internet visibility and its position between customers and global traffic flows.

Akamai is also building a cloud computing business aimed at distributed workloads. Through its cloud and edge computing services, the company targets developers and enterprises that want compute, storage, and networking closer to users and devices. This positions Akamai in competition with larger cloud platforms, but with a differentiated emphasis on edge performance, security, and global delivery.

For investors, Akamai represents a mature internet infrastructure company transitioning from CDN roots toward a broader platform spanning cybersecurity, cloud services, and edge computing.