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Simian Taps Akamai to Deliver Creative Media Management SolutionsLAS VEGAS, April 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --2015 NAB Show – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM), the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, today announced that Simian is using Akamai's Media Delivery Solutions to support its industry-leading creative workflow and evolutionary media management platform. With Akamai's services, Simian's worldwide base of advertising and marketing agency, production, post production and media and entertainment company customers can quickly and securely store, access and share their entire media library. Simian's cloud-based solutions allow organizations to collaborate efficiently on video-intensive projects by enabling fast access to content from any location or device. The content can be quickly and easily downloaded and incorporated into presentations or reviewed and annotated for later use. Akamai's NetStorage cloud storage platform can play a crucial role in making the content highly shareable and available by intelligently storing and delivering files within close geographical proximity to users. Akamai also supports real-time visibility into download performance and views, which Simian uses as part of its analytics interface to help users to track and measure how and where specific content is being viewed and used. "The video landscape is constantly evolving and our customers' needs are always changing. Partnering with Akamai helps ensure that we can seamlessly embrace new technologies and standards such as the adoption of HTML5 and a common video format in MP4, all of which allows us to do true streaming and sharing across all platforms and devices," said Jay Brooks, co-founder and CTO of Simian. Akamai's NetStorage, the most globally distributed cloud-storage solution on the market, offers automatic, geographically dispersed replication for resiliency, high availability and real time performance optimization. It is part of Akamai's Media Delivery Solutions suite of products that are designed to offer a simple, high-speed cloud-based content workflow solution addressing the broad variety of network types at varying connection speeds.
Akamai and Simian will be exhibiting at the 2015 NAB Show, April 13 – 16 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Akamai will be at booth SL3325 and Simian will be at booth N7226. About Simian For more information visit www.gosimian.com About Akamai® Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act In addition, the statements in this press release represent Akamai's expectations and beliefs as of the date of this press release. Akamai anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause these expectations and beliefs to change. However, while Akamai may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Akamai's expectations or beliefs as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Contacts: Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100225/AKAMAILOGO To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/simian-taps-akamai-to-deliver-creative-media-management-solutions-300066142.html SOURCE Akamai Technologies, Inc. |