Akamai Rolls Out Cloud Infrastructure and Services Powered by NVIDIA, Optimized for Video Processing
LAS VEGAS, April 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, added a new media-optimized offering based on NVIDIA GPUs to its growing cloud portfolio. With the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPU, the new cloud-based service provides better productivity and economics for companies in the media and entertainment industry that are challenged with processing video content faster and more efficiently.
- "Media companies need low-latency, reliable compute resources that maintain the portability of the workloads they create," said Shawn Michels, Vice President of Cloud Products at Akamai.
- The eighth-generation NVENC engines provide support for the latest video codecs, including the highly efficient AV1 codec, which enables higher-quality video at lower bitrates.
- Akamai is also hosting a Lunch & Learn session during which partners Ateme, Hydrolix, and Yospace will share how they are building next-generation media workflows on the Akamai distributed cloud computing platform.
- The event takes place Tuesday, April 16, from 11 AM–12:30 PM PT, in the Akamai Lounge.