Linode, the nearly 20-year-old cloud software company that’s made itself a household name in the Philly tech scene, will be acquired by Akamai Technologies. CEO Christopher Aker founded the company in ...

Earlier this year, when Akamai bought infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform provider Linode for about $900 million, it wasn't clear how Akamai's content delivery network (CDN) and security ...

Akamai is to expand Linode’s presence in more than a dozen markets over the next year, and is planning to develop a new Edge compute offering. The companies this week announced plans to add more than ...

Akamai, the company you probably mostly think of as a content delivery network but that also offers security and edge computing services, today announced that it has acquired Linode. The price of the ...

Thanks to new entrants like DigitalOcean, the competition in the hosting space has been heating up for the last few months and for the most part, it’s the users who are reaping the benefits of this.

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Linode is not afraid to be a bit different, or so it appears. The firm takes an open stance on ...

A security compromise at Linode, the New Jersey-based Linux cloud provider, has warned customers that hackers breached a Web-based customer service portal used by the company and emptied the Bitcoin ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. It’s like a London bus or a TechEd, you wait for ages and then – suddenly – several come along at once. Microsoft ...

Christopher Aker is a bit of a romantic. Aker, the 41-year-old CEO of Galloway Township, N.J.-based (suburban Atlantic City) hosting company Linode, spent 20 months fighting to buy his dream office ...

Virtual private hosting firm Linode is having a rough start to the year. The Galloway, New Jersey-based company said Tuesday that it has reset the passwords of its entire user base, after suspecting a ...