Akamai extends its edge-computing platform as it looks to challenge AWS, Azure and GCP | TechCrunch
Akamai is launching its Gecko "Generalized Edge Compute" platform to increase its cloud-computing network worldwide.
The initiative focuses on bringing compute capacity close to users, reducing latency, and enabling new use cases like immersive retail and IoT. [ more ]
Akamai Technologies has launched a new initiative called Gecko that aims to simplify the management and deployment of application workloads on edge computing platforms.
The offering leverages Akamai's content delivery network (CDN) PoPs to deploy application workloads managed via the Linode cloud service.
Akamai aims to provide a federated set of services that allow IT organizations to process data in the most efficient way based on performance requirements. [ more ]