MySpace: X speedup offload. This popular social networking company called on Akamai to help it handle its virtually unprecedented pace of growth. Despite its vast footprint of personalized and user-generated content, MySpace is able to offload 98% of its traffic to Akamai using tiered distribution. It has seen a X performance improvement to end users in the US and a X improvement for international users. Sophos: Eliminated costly infrastructure build out. Global security company Sophos delivers antivirus software and updates to 100 million users in 150 countries. It first began using Akamai when its London-based servers were becoming overwhelmed with each release. Now, Sophos delivers 20 times the traffic and achieves a 99.9% download success rate without any additional infrastructure. It estimates that it has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars annually and avoided a costly data center deployment.
