News Summary

• There’s also a new global load balancer, which bridges the functionality of Linode’s load balancer for local traffic load balancing and Akamai’s global traffic manager and application load balancer.“Distributed workloads require distributed infrastructure,” said Adam Karon, chief operating officer and general manager of the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai.
• Users of Akamai’s object storage service can now also store twice as much data: up to one petabyte and one billion objects per bucket.
• Acquiring Linode allowed Akamai to fast-track its broader cloud computing ambitions.