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Akamai and Macrometa Partner to Create Edge Cloud Super Platform for Enterprise Developers
Akamai makes a strategic equity investment in Macrometa, with Akamai representation on the Macrometa board, and the two companies announce powerful
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[{"type":"text","content":"Akamai makes a strategic equity investment in Macrometa, with Akamai representation on the Macrometa board, and the two companies announce powerful integrations\nSAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Macrometa Corporation, the first-of-its-kind Global Data Network (GDN) and edge computing cloud, today announced a new strategic equity investment, go-to-market partnership, and powerful product integrations with Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online. In conjunction with Akamai's equity investment in Macrometa, Andy Champagne, CTO of Akamai Labs, will join the Macrometa board as a non-voting board observer. This investment spearheads a deep technology and multi-year product collaboration to provide the world's most ubiquitous edge cloud platform built for enterprise.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nAkamai cloud computing based on Linode and EdgeWorkers edge computing technology combined with Macrometa's Global Data Network (GDN) will help enterprise developers build, deploy, and run global apps and APIs seamlessly across edge and cloud. Developers will have access to the Akamai Intelligent Edge platform operating across 4,200 points of presence around the world, and Akamai cloud computing based on Linode regions, as well as AWS, GCP Azure, and telecom 5G networks. This integration is intended to fundamentally transform the way enterprise app builders architect and run real-time, data-driven web services and brings the Cloud and the Edge into a single, seamless multicloud/polycloud platform. Mobile apps, video streaming services, online multiplayer gaming and eSports experiences, e-commerce, SaaS, IoT, and more, will have access to the power to unleash next-gen services to users everywhere.\n\"This partnership and technical integration greatly simplifies the amount of work and effort that goes in to building applications and deploying them on the Edge, and it brings a certain level of elegance and velocity that allows faster time to market and a more modern experience of building these types of apps,\" said Chetan Venkatesh, founder and CEO at Macrometa. \"We are giving developers superpowers. The ability to create these kinds of applications, at the speed and velocity that enterprise requires, looks like magic to the casual observer. But that is the beauty of what this su...