CDN specialist Akamai has acquired cloud storage expertise supplier Ondat in a stunning transfer that may beef up its personal Linked Cloud providing, launched just a few days in the past. 

Particulars of the acquisition of the London-based firm haven’t been disclosed and the acquisition is predicted to shut by the top of March 2023.

Ondat competes with the likes of Portworx (now a part of Pure Storage) and OpenEBS within the pink scorching market of software-defined, cloud native storage for Kubernetes and is utility, infrastructure and orchestration agnostic.

Past Content material Supply Networks

It has a tiered providing with a free neighborhood one which delivers limitless clusters, limitless nodes and 1TB capability per cluster going all the best way to an enterprise one with limitless cloud storage capability, 24/7 assist and a devoted account supervisor for as little as $750 per node per yr for a digital machine (not naked steel). 

Akamai has developed from one of many world’s largest CDN into an entity that aspires to “energy and shield life on-line” and interacts with billions of finish customers every single day through a spine that’s current in additional than 130 nations in practically 4,200 areas.

Its acquisition of hosting firm Linode, in March 2022, expanded the worldwide footprint of Akamai giving it the mandatory instruments to compete on equal footing with archrival CloudFlare in addition to hyperscalers which have more and more expanded their very own choices to compete with conventional CDN.

Its international footprint implies that workloads can transparently be executed nearer to the place they’re wanted, whatever the location. It has additionally aggressively been increasing the variety of services it gives, at present topping 82 on the time of writing. 

Past cloud internet hosting and VPS, Akamai gives ZTNA providers, Cloud Firewall, DNS administration, Cloud backup and DDoS safety amongst others. It has just lately introduced a discount of the worth of egress overage by 50% (as much as 1PB monthly) which it considers to be one of many largest ache factors for its prospects (and the remainder of the cloud computing business).