Solves three of the biggest challenges for greater Kubernetes adoption: skills, scale, and lock-in
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud company that powers and protects business online, today announced the Akamai App Platform, a ready-to-run solution that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale highly distributed applications.
The Akamai App Platform is built on top of the cloud native Kubernetes technology Otomi, which Akamai acquired from Red Kubes earlier this year. The application platform provides ready-to-run templates that address common challenges in deploying, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters at scale. Instead of relying on multiple departments and spending months sourcing, connecting, and configuring the software needed to operate Kubernetes fleets, Akamai's solution automates the provisioning process, allowing developers to build and deploy highly distributed applications in a few clicks. This cuts deployment time from months to less than an hour, and provides near-instant scaling as production workloads grow.
"Over the past decade, developers have been forced to choose between two evils: Either accept complexity, vendor lock-in, and spiraling cloud costs if they build with hyperscaler solutions, or grapple with skills gaps, longer time to value, and perceived increased risk if they build on open source solutions," said Ari Weil, Vice President of Product Marketing, Akamai. "We're giving them a better way by harnessing the power and potential of the open source ecosystem to strike a balance between the ease of use of the one-size-fits-all hyperscale world and the flexibility and control afforded by open source."
Built for business
The Akamai App Platform provides developers with:
Akamai designed the platform for development and operations teams at various stages of scaling their deployments. Whether they are anticipating growth, just realizing the need to scale, or actively working on scaling and expanding existing services, the Akamai App Platform is purpose-built to accelerate time to value for every business. The Akamai App Platform is also designed to help solution integrators who want a fast and simple way to architect multicloud solutions by managing a platform for their applications instead of managing the infrastructure to build it; value-added resellers looking to eliminate the overhead of Kubernetes configuration and deployment; and independent software vendors that want to make it easier for customers to adopt their partner solutions through pre-built configurations and add partner solutions to application architectures.
Straightening the Kubernetes learning curve
Kubernetes serves as a foundational technology in the open source ecosystem, empowering organizations to build, deploy, and manage containerized applications with ease, portability, and scalability. According to the CNCF's latest annual survey, more than 60% of enterprises have adopted Kubernetes.
Yet despite its widespread adoption, Kubernetes is often a challenge for DevOps teams still getting up to speed on the container orchestration technology. The Akamai App Platform helps alleviate some of the sharpest pain points faced by development and operations teams in today's complex containerized environments by:
When combined with services from Akamai Connected Cloud, the platform empowers companies to build scalable, distributed, low-latency applications. It also offers unparalleled price-performance for integrated development, delivery, and security.
"As cloud native principles increasingly power the edge native apps of tomorrow, the ability for developers to easily build and deploy on an open app platform that supports container orchestration has the potential to be yet another disruption to the cloud status quo," said Dave McCarthy, Research Vice President, IDC. "This will become increasingly important as edge native apps become the front line of AI inference."
Akamai is a Gold Sponsor of the CNCF, and earlier this year pledged $1M to CNCF projects.
About Akamai
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn.
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