UK2 Group and Akamai Form Strategic Sales Partnership to Provide Small Businesses in the UK With Akamai Services

By Uk2 Group, PRNE
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Strategic sales partnership provides instant account deployment and access to Akamai

LONDON, April 14, 2010 - The UK2 Group (www.uk2group.com), a global leader of web hosting
solutions, and Akamai Technologies Limited, part of Akamai Technologies, Inc.
(www.akamai.com), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and
enterprise applications online, today announced a strategic sales partnership
to provide UK small businesses across all sectors with premier content
delivery services by Akamai via UK2's service portfolio. The strategic sales
partnership will allow both companies to drive new growth opportunities and
has the potential to transform the online experience of many small businesses
by reducing the costs and complexity of providing online services to their
customers.

By offering UK2 Group's growing clientele of over one million customers
access to services based upon Akamai's industry-leading and global content
and application delivery network, small businesses that sign up with UK2
Group will be able to take advantage of the improved performance, reduced
costs and security that Akamai's Edge services provide. Akamai services are
based upon its network of over 61,000 servers in 70 countries, allowing
Akamai to offer business services such as accelerating website performance
and Cloud optimization leading to reduced infrastructure and bandwidth costs,
as well as improved security and reliability; all key strengths for any form
of online business.

"The UK2 Group is pleased to work with Akamai to bring its services to
the SMB market," said Ditlev Bredahl, chief executive officer, UK2 Group.
"With our large customer base, we are able to match the growing needs of that
audience to Akamai's premier services at prices previously unavailable to the
small business segment," said Bredahl.

"Akamai and the UK2 Group have each led fundamental advances in their own
markets - Akamai with the world's largest distributed computing platform and
the UK2 Group's dramatic rise in the hosting markets for SMBs in the UK,"
said Malcolm Rowe, Regional Manager, Northern Europe, Akamai. "By combining
our unique strengths, Akamai and the UK2 Group will bring Akamai's
world-renowned platform to the small business market giving them an unmatched
content delivery experience," said Rowe.

About Akamai

Akamai(R) provides market-leading managed services for powering video,
dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered
the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been
adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. The
alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network of
tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability,
insight and performance for businesses to succeed online. Akamai has
transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain,
advertise, interact, and collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference,
visit www.akamai.com.

About UK2 Group

UK2 Group has been a significant player in the British and European
hosting markets since 1998, and is the founder brand of the UK2 Group. UK2
Group provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many
global customers through its family of hosting brands - UK2.net, midPhase,
WestHost, 10TB.com, AN Hosting, Autica, Resell.biz, US2.net, WingSix, Supreme
Support, Dotable and the most recent acquisition, VI.net. The group operates
its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data
centres in the UK and US, and are committed to providing reliable, secure and
great value products and services underpinned with excellent support.

Duncan Gurney of Ascendant Communications, +44-(0)-7912-495630, dgurney at ascendcomms.net, for UK2 Group; or Carlos Rego of UK2 Group, +44-020-7053-7668, carlos at uk2group.com

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