According to an official release, Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), a distributed edge and cloud platform , unveiled plans to embed cloud computing capabilities into its edge network. Akamai’s generalised edge compute (Gecko) advances Akamai’s strategy to be the cloud computing platform. This is believed to help companies deliver better experiences by running workloads closer to users, devices and sources of data.
The company anticipates that customers in AI inferencing, multiplayer gaming, and social and streaming media can take advantage of the power of Gecko. Akamai sees future use cases in areas such as immersive retail, spatial computing, data analytics, and consumer and industrial IoT.
“Gecko can help to build a roadmap toward a more connected cloud we laid out when we acquired Linode to add cost-effective, cloud-native computing capabilities. With Gecko, we plan to combine the computing power of the cloud platform with the proximity and efficiency of the edge, to put workloads closer to users, ” Tom Leighton, co-founder and CEO, Akamai, explained.
Sources revealed that using the power of both cloud and edge can be an advantage as the industry faces increasing demand to deliver better price performance, lower latency, and more robust security for applications and data, built and deployed across a wider continuum of compute.
