IT-jätten Akamai köper rival inom molninfrastruktur
Den amerikanska IT-jätten Akamai har meddelat att man lägger vantarna på molninfrastrukturbolaget Linode. Akamai betalar motsvarande nästan 8,4 miljarder kronor för bolaget. Affären väntas vara helt genomförd under första kvartalet i år.
Akamais vd Tom Leighton säger att uppköpet öppnar för att kombinera Linodes molnmöjligheter med Akamais edgeplattform och säkerhetstjänster.
Akamai Technologies
Wikipedia (en)
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN), a cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Akamai's Intelligent Edge Platform is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents out capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations near the user. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is directed by Akamai's domain name system to a proximal edge server that can serve the requested content. Akamai's mapping system assigns each user to a proximal edge server using sophisticated algorithms such as stable matching and consistent hashing, enabling more reliable and faster web downloads. Further, Akamai implements DDoS mitigation and other security services in its edge server platform.
Linode
Wikipedia (en)
Linode, LLC is an American privately-owned cloud hosting company that provides virtual private servers. It is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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