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Akamai expands world ’ s most distributed cloud network with new core compute regions

New regions in Amsterdam , Jakarta , Los Angeles , Miami , Milan , Osaka and São Paulo advance Akamai ' s modern decentralized cloud vision .

Akamai Technologies has formally announced the launch of seven new core compute regions across Europe , Asia , North America and Latin America . The new sites in Amsterdam , Jakarta , Los Angeles , Miami , Milan , Osaka and São Paulo mark the third phase in Akamai ’ s ongoing rollout of new core compute regions . This follows its acquisition of Linode last year and underscores the company ’ s effort to reshape the cloud landscape .

By adding São Paulo and Miami to its network , Akamai simplifies doing business in Latin America . These new regions make Akamai a compelling rival in a market traditionally controlled by larger hyperscale providers . Akamai ’ s new presence in São Paulo enables customers to run workloads in one of the southern hemisphere ’ s busiest cities and nations . This eliminates the economic and performance obstacles that typically require workloads to be routed across continents . São Paulo and Miami exemplify Akamai ’ s mission to create core compute regions in challenging markets globally . These are connected to the same underlying backbone that powers its current edge network , a system spread over 4,100 edge Points of Presence ( PoPs ) in 131 countries .
Akamai is revolutionizing how organizations think about cloud architecture . The company prioritizes a more distributed , decentralized , low-latency and globally scalable design . Its cloud computing services suit highperformance workloads that need to operate closer to end-users .

Dynatrace announces expanded consumption commitment and Go- To-Market partnership with Microsoft

Dynatrace , a leading unified observability and security company , has announced its expanded multi-year consumption commitment and Go-To-Market ( GTM ) partnership with Microsoft .

This partnership includes joint sales and marketing training , including campaigns , events , webinars , customer solution workshops and practical laboratories . The goal is to meet the growing global demand from customers for the Dynatrace platform on the Microsoft Azure environment , thus accelerating cloud migration and optimization initiatives .
enterprise-grade cloud services and industry-leading analytics and automation , partnerships like this are well-positioned to cause benefits to organizations worldwide .”
Rick McConnell , CEO , Dynatrace , said : “ Our platform was specifically built for cloud environments like Azure , with AI and intelligent automation at its core to enable the worldwide largest organizations to deliver secure and seamless digital interactions .
“ We are committed to expanding the value of Dynatrace on Azure for businesses worldwide . Through this enhanced partnership with Microsoft , we can help our customers migrate more workloads to the cloud , optimize existing cloud deployments , and consistently deliver amazing experiences for their end-users .”
Stephen Elliot , Vice President , IDC , said : “ Hybrid , multi-cloud and native cloud technologies offer essential speed , scale and cost efficiency for Digital Transformation in large organizations .
“ Managing these environments and unlocking the business value of the vast amount of data they produce requires deep observability capabilities , application security and extensive automation . With
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