The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai?s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver medal for ?Excellence in Technology,? for their automatic hands-on Lab Validation System (LVS). The automatic LVS is used throughout Global Service training courses, as well as in Channel Partner product certification, to provide real-time evaluations quickly and accurately for hands-on lab training associated with learning how to implement Akamai products.
The year 2021 was definitely challenging for security practitioners. The number of data breaches continued to rise; a report issued by the Identity Theft Resource Center stated that the total number of breaches in the first three quarters of 2021 exceeded the total number of events in all of 2020 by 17%.
Our longest-standing Developer Advocate, Mike Elissen, noticed an opportunity to make Akamai?s developer relations even stronger. He co-created Developer Champions, an advocacy program that helps Akamai employees better meet customer needs.
Akamai announced our intent to acquire Linode. The acquisition is intended to create the world?s most distributed compute platform. This new cloud to edge platform will make it easier for developers and businesses to build, run, and secure applications, especially given the complexities of Web3.
1&1 Versatel is a B2B provider for fibre gigabit connections and network-related services in Germany. The company is part of the United Internet AG and as such a sister company of 1&1 AG. 1&1 Versatel operates one of the biggest and most powerful fibre networks in Germany - providing its own network in more than 250 German cities and has implemented over 50,000 business customer solutions. We?re delighted that such an innovative company has chosen to partner with Akamai to increase the reach of its customer base to include smaller enterprises and to make its operations secure.
Akamai is compliant with applicable data privacy regulations in countries where we and our customers conduct business. This is a fundamental tenet of our company?s core values. After all, when you make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day, there?s an expectation that you will also protect their lives online. And that is exactly what we do.