Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies | May 11, 2016

Microsoft today is announcing that its Azure CDN (content delivery network) service provided by CDN vendor Akamai is now generally available, following a preview that began in the fall of 2015. The technology is meant to provide content to end users faster than it ordinarily would be, by using points of presence sprinkled throughout the world. The Akamai option is not the first CDN that’s become available to Azure customers. The first one was Verizon, in a deal announced in January 2015. N...

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...

bloomberg.com | January 21, 2020

Google signed a 10-year deal with travel-software provider Sabre Corp., a key win for the search giant in the competitive cloud-computing market.Sabre will pay Google to handle parts of its information-technology system and for data-analytics tools. Additionally, the companies agreed to collaborate on online travel services, a sign of Google leaning on its massive consumer business to lure enterprise clients.Sabre and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced the partnership on Tuesday as a “...

techhq.com | January 16, 2020

If we needed evidence of cloud computing’s success, that AWS revenue has risen from US$300 million in 2009 to become a US$32 billion business today, is fairly substantial. What began as a movement to provide companies with easier and more cost-effective access to IT infrastructure has become the most important computing development in history,opens a new report by AllCloud which cements the trajectory of what is, simply, access to ‘computers on the internet.According to the Cloud Inf...