DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - The Cloud & Hybrid Channel, Akamai
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Akamai signs $11.6bn compute deal with Anthropic
AI firm to lease capacity from cloud and Edge company to support CPU workloads
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Akamai secures $600m cloud computing contract
While Buzz HPC scores $350m agreement spread over five years
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Akamai launches $2.6bn bond offering
Senior notes offered in two $1.3bn tranches
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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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"Top three cloud providers in the US" are now using Akamai Cloud
Akamai sees cloud infrastructure services business grow 39% YoY
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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 launches distributed compute regions for Edge workloads
Distributed regions reduce latency by bringing workloads closer to the end user
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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 plans seven new cloud regions
Company continues cloud roll-out after last year's Linode acquisition