DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
AI firm to lease capacity from cloud and Edge company to support CPU workloads
While Buzz HPC scores $350m agreement spread over five years
Senior notes offered in two $1.3bn tranches
Akamai announced major contract last week
Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T, and Crown Castle follow suit
GPUs will be deployed across Akamai's distributed cloud infrastructure
Akamai sees cloud infrastructure services business grow 39% YoY
Expands inference from core data centers to the Edge
Security remains the company's big winner
Q1 2025 sees firm bring in revenue of $1.015bn
Also announces availability of video processing units via its cloud
Brings inferencing to the Edge
Available from Akamai's 700+ Edge locations
Company also releases Q4 2024 earnings
Content delivery to be picked up by Tencent and Wangsu
Company acquires customer contracts and non-exclusive license rights to patents
Distributed regions reduce latency by bringing workloads closer to the end user
Company takes over customers from another struggling CDN provider, again
Powered by Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPUs
Embeds cloud features in its Edge network for jobs like AI inference
Content Delivery Networks did a lot more than anyone expected
Follows similar exit and acquisition of StackPath's CDN customers
Company continues cloud roll-out after last year's Linode acquisition
Edge company quietly leaves content delivery biz it founded the company on
CDN company expands cloud footprint
A more Edge-friendly cloud - and lower egress charges
Looks like it's just one of those days for the Internet
First stop; Ashburn, Virginia