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Akamai extends its edge-computing platform as it looks to challenge AWS, Azure and GCP
Akamai today announced the launch of its Gecko "Generalized Edge Compute" platform. This new initiative will increase the company's cloud-computing
“It’s the next phase of the roadmap toward a more connected cloud we laid out when we acquired Linode to add cost-effective, cloud-native computing capabilities to our portfolio. “Akamai is delivering on the promise it made when it acquired Linode by quickly integrating compute into its security and delivery mix,” said Dave McCarthy, IDC, research vice president of Cloud and Edge Services. Once Akamai gets a good number of the regions up and running, it plans to bring its container service to them and then, at a later point, its automated workload platform, which, the company promises, will allow developers to easily distribute their applications to hundreds of locations.
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