Akamai Earlier this year, when Akamai bought infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform provider Linode for about $900 million, it wasn't clear how Akamai's content delivery network (CDN ...

Akamai announced on Tuesday afternoon that it is acquiring infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform provider Linode for about $900 million. With the $900 million deal, Akamai will acquire all ...

Akamai said Linode is one of the “most trusted” infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers. Founded in 2003, Linode has grown to 256 staff operating in 11 markets, with customers ...

Existing Linode users can now upgrade their servers from their dashboards (which includes about 20 minutes of downtime during the migration). The only exception here are users who run 32-bit kernels.