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Akamai To Acquire Linode to Provide Businesses with a Developer-friendly and Massively-distributed Platform to Build, Run and Secure Applications

Feb 15, 2022

Akamai Technologies, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Linode, one of the easiest-to-use and most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers.

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Hyperscalers and Alternative Cloud Providers: The Advantages of a Hybrid Public Cloud Model

Nearly One-Third of Developers are Turning to Alternative Cloud Providers, New Research from SlashData Finds

Jan 31, 2022

Alternative cloud usage nearly doubles over the past four years, as multicloud becomes prevailing approach for cloud computing infrastructure.

Multicloud

Linode Bests AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure in Customer Rankings

Jan 25, 2022

Linode bests AWS, GCP, and Azure in customer rankings from TrustRadius, as well as top scores on G2 and Peerspot.

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Media Coverage

Recent coverage of Linode in consumer and trade press, blogs, and elsewhere.

Alternative Cloud Providers Can Help MSPs Grow Their Business Faster Than Hyperscalers

TFiR

DevOps Pros Eye Alternative Cloud Vendors, Payments: Report

Virtualization Review

Profile: Blair Lyon, Head of Cloud Experience, Akamai

Tele.Net

Linode Blog

Perspectives, research, product updates, trends, best practices, and more.

What You Missed at SCaLE 19x

Aug 23, 2022 by Gardiner Bryant

Gardiner Bryant, a Linode Developer Advocate, recently went to SCaLE 19x and shares his experiences and interviews from the conference.

Open Source

Linode Security Digest August 14-21, 2022

Aug 19, 2022 by The Linode Security Team

This week, we discuss a race condition in the Linux kernel's memory subsystem, a path traversal vulnerability in UnRAR software, and more.

Security

Low-Code Development Options on Marketplace

Aug 17, 2022 by Maddie Presland

Accelerate development cycles and improve accessibility with low-code platforms.

Developer Tools

Unclouded

Commentary from Linode’s corporate communications team on the news and moves happening across the cloud computing industry not covered on the Linode blog.