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Akamai Adds Service to Optimize API Traffic
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At the same time, the company is also making available a globally distributed key-value store dubbed EdgeKV that enables stateful applications to be deployed on its EdgeWorker nodes.
Much of the increased activity is being driven by distributed applications that are deployed directly on the Akamai CDN, rather than being deployed in a local data center to take advantage of a global network of data centers that allow IT organizations to take advantage of caching.
Naturally, competition among providers of CDNs has increased considerably as the number of applications deployed at the edge continues to increase. There may even come a day when there are more applications deployed at the network edge than there are in the cloud as more organization deploy applications that need to process and analyze data in near-real time as part of a larger digital business transformation initiative.
At the same time, the company is also making available a globally distributed key-value store dubbed EdgeKV that enables stateful applications to be deployed on its EdgeWorker nodes.
Much of the increased activity is being driven by distributed applications that are deployed directly on the Akamai CDN, rather than being deployed in a local data center to take advantage of a global network of data centers that allow IT organizations to take advantage of caching.
Naturally, competition among providers of CDNs has increased considerably as the number of applications deployed at the edge continues to increase. There may even come a day when there are more applications deployed at the network edge than there are in the cloud as more organization deploy applications that need to process and analyze data in near-real time as part of a larger digital business transformation initiative.
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