DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Edge & IoT, Akamai
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Anthropic signs $1.8bn cloud contract with Akamai - report
Akamai announced major contract last week
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Akamai deploys Nvidia "AI Grid" across 4,400 Edge locations, claims to be first
Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T, and Crown Castle follow suit
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Akamai to deploy thousands of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
GPUs will be deployed across Akamai's distributed cloud infrastructure
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Akamai launches inference cloud offering with Nvidia hardware
Expands inference from core data centers to the Edge
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Akamai's cloud revenue grows 30 percent off back of large contracts
Security remains the company's big winner
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Akamai completes Edgio customer migration
Q1 2025 sees firm bring in revenue of $1.015bn
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Akamai launches cloud inference offering
Also announces availability of video processing units via its cloud
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Akamai Technologies partners with Vast Data to speed up AI inferencing
Brings inferencing to the Edge
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Akamai launches managed container service
Available from Akamai's 700+ Edge locations
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Akamai wins $100m multi-year cloud contract with one of "world's largest technology companies"
Company also releases Q4 2024 earnings
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Akamai completes acquisition of Edgio assets
Company acquires customer contracts and non-exclusive license rights to patents
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Akamai launches distributed compute regions for Edge workloads
Distributed regions reduce latency by bringing workloads closer to the end user
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Akamai acquires customer contracts from bankrupt CDN firm Edgio
Company takes over customers from another struggling CDN provider, again
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Akamai launches cloud services and infrastructure for video processing
Powered by Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPUs
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Akamai launches Gecko Edge cloud service
Embeds cloud features in its Edge network for jobs like AI inference
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DCD Podcast - How CDNs quietly took over the Internet, with Mark de Jong
Content Delivery Networks did a lot more than anyone expected
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Lumen to wind down CDN business, sell customers to Akamai
Follows similar exit and acquisition of StackPath's CDN customers
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Akamai plans seven new cloud regions
Company continues cloud roll-out after last year's Linode acquisition
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StackPath quits CDN business, Akamai buys enterprise customer contracts
Edge company quietly leaves content delivery biz it founded the company on
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Akamai announces five cloud computing sites in Europe, the US, and India
CDN company expands cloud footprint
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Akamai launches Linode-based 'Connected Cloud' platform
A more Edge-friendly cloud - and lower egress charges
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Akamai to expand Linode into a dozen new markets by next year
First stop; Ashburn, Virginia
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Cloudflare is rebuilding its CDN service on its Workers serverless API
Project Flame is recruiting
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Cloudflare and Akamai to continue operations in Russia
Say that it is better to offer access to information than a blackout
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CDN Alliance launches - with no actual members, as yet
But content delivery networks may need a voice to counter the perception that they keep breaking
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Akamai outage was due to 'DNS bug'
Services are back to normal, Akamai has apologized
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Akamai Edge outage hits many sites and services
Oracle Cloud, HSBC, American Airlines and others reportedly hit: CDN problems can affect everyone, more or less...