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What is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

Akamai + Linode Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) accelerates innovation with scalable, simple, affordable, and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. Our products, services, and people give developers and enterprises the flexibility, support, and trust they need to build, deploy, secure, and scale applications more easily and cost-effectively from cloud to edge on the world’s most distributed network.

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The Developer Cloud Simplified

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Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) is an exciting option for developers and enterprises to build, secure, and deliver their modern applications at planetary scale. Akamai combines the best of both worlds - the scale and breadth of core services of a hyperscaler with the simplicity and affordability of an alternative cloud provider.

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At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over
0 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world.With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences.Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation.

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Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) Demo - Linode Cloud Manager
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Deploy Kubernetes clusters with our fully-managed container orchestration engine.
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Their support is excellent, and pricing for what you get is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

I prefer phone support as an option. Email only is not ideal, although it is lightning quick, even at 3am. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I maintain several servers with Linode. TCO is lower compared to other providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Emilia Janczak of Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)
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Thanks for the kind words. We do have 24/7 phone Support, so you can call us at 3 AM if you need to. You can find all of our contact information (including our phone numbers) right here: https://www.linode.com/support/

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Simple panel and a really efficient support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

A limited amount of option in linode instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zero downtime, no more servers a unified datacenter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Reliable and always on with excellent communication if there is going to be any maintenance or upgrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

Pricing still on the high side compared to competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode):

Give it a try. I strongly recommend Linode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making my web services always available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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solid support and delivery of sensibly crafted virtual machine services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

A bit arcane to alter configurations, add disks,etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

provide virtual machine support in multiple locations including outside the US for end-user and engineering internet services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Response from Emilia Janczak of Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)
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Our goal is to make using our Cloud Manager for managing your Linode services as easy as possible. Check out this page for links to our documentation that’ll show you how to do all of those things and more: https://www.linode.com/docs/products/tools/cloud-manager/

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Cost for the service is competitive with similar companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Takes them longer to provide newer services than other companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Production and Development web hosting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

We chose StorageOS as a replacement for an NFS deployment on an OpenShift cluster. It was very easy to install using the provided operator and we were impressed with the performance. The support team from StorageOS is very helpful, and responds quickly to our requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

ReadWriteMany volumes are currently in Technology Preview Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Replacing NFS for container-native deployments

- Increased performance

- Increased reliability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

Cloud Native solution

Enterprise Solution : StorageOS V2

Easy integration with Openshift and Native Kubernetes (Validated OCP 3.11 /Storage OS 1.5 and K8S 1.16.x / StorageOS V2.x)

Support & reactivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

Pricing model StorageOS 1.5 vs StorageOS V2.x

But i understand that all the new features will be included at same cost in Storage V2.x Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

In the next two year we're expecting that 70% of the new workload will run containers in production.

StorageOS solve the problem of running stateful applications with container technologies.

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I like the easy installation and simple usage. Support is quick and compentent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

I have not discerned any downsides after nearly a year of operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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When building on premise K8S this can be a key component Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing redundant storage to our k8s workloads via PVCs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Simple installation and manage. It works very nicely with kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

The performance sometimes isn't good and some essential features are missing compared to the other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using StorageOS to replicate data and dynamic provisioning in kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

It's moderate, adaptable, and dependable. I likewise love that they have server farms spread out over the United States so we can turn out to be geologically different pretty effectively - and rapidly. Propelling off another hub or updating existing hubs is extremely simple and you would be unable to locate a more practical arrangement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode)?

You truly should be a developer to utilize this arrangement. On the off chance that you can't work in command line, at that point you will presumably experience difficulty with Linode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode):

In the event that you needn't bother with Windows server, or paritcular conveyance, Linode has all you have to oversee your infrastrucutre in some snap and on the off chance that you are searching for steady, huge brand, Linode is your first decision. They are awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am able to make our framework increasingly strong and reasonable. It additionally offers reinforcements and burden balancers with the goal that we can moderate danger of ddos and geological inactivity issues. I use linode for facilitating customer destinations. With private servers we had got the chance to deal with all foundation and episode, and clearly pay the lodging in datacenter for our framework. Moving to linode we had diminished our expense by half and helped execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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