Linode Akamai Acquired Linode Adding New Data Centers in 2023

eva2000 · Sep 27, 2022

Linode announced on their blog that they will add more than a dozen new datacenters in 2023 https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/akamai-turns-linode-up-past-11/

First phase to double the scale of Linode global footprint

It’s hard to imagine that nearly six months have passed since Akamai completed its acquisition of Linode. At the time, some customers, analysts, and industry experts questioned what the acquisition would mean for the future of Linode. We shared that our intent was to do more – more locations, more functionality, more scale and capacity, and more of the same with regards to Linode’s renowned ease of use, developer experience, customer support, and transparent pricing.

With the integration of our two companies well underway, we are now in a position to share more details on just what “more” means with regards to our plans of deploying Akamai Linode in more locations.

Adding new data centers

Today, we are happy to share that we plan to add more than a dozen new Linode data centers – equipped with Linode’s full product suite – across North America, APAC, LATAM, and Europe by the end of 2023. Our first planned new location is targeted for Ashburn, Virginia, later this year with more to follow in the first half of 2023.

Along with Ashburn, we are targeting deployments in: Amsterdam, Chennai, Chicago, Delhi, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Osaka, Miami, Paris, Rome, São Paulo, Seattle, and Stockholm to name a few. The exact number of sites, locations, and dates for deployment are all being actively worked on. We plan on providing regular updates as plans for each location solidify.
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Akamai Linode cloud services

We’re prioritizing these new sites based on customer demand, market analysis, and existing and predicted compute and delivery volume. We also looked at locations that open Akamai Linode cloud services to new markets (for example, Miami and São Paulo are strategic to serving customers in the LATAM market) and assessed what was technically feasible to make sure each location can support our growth now and into the future.

Addressing locations underserved by traditional cloud providers

Additionally, 2023 will also see us introduce a new concept designed to get basic compute capabilities into difficult to reach locations currently underserved by traditional cloud providers. We call these “Distributed Sites” and have identified more than 50 cities where we’d like to place them. Stay tuned for more details.

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If you’d like to provide feedback on our plans, please reach out.
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buik · Sep 27, 2022

Good to see multiple European locations being added. After leaving the UK from the European Union and the possible GDPR implications on the long term. The UK as datacenter location had become unusable for me.

duderuud · Sep 28, 2022

Good to see Amsterdam But it will depend on prices.

Hard to beat Hetzner...

buik · Sep 28, 2022

duderuud said: ↑

But it will depend on prices.
Hard to beat Hetzner...
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Of course, that depends on what you consider important, which is obviously different for everyone. If Linode is going to deliver what they say they are going to deliver, (which they describe in her blog).

Then as Linode, it's going to have a lot of potential.
Which in any case I am happy to pay a premium price for.

eva2000 · Sep 28, 2022

Yeah like the direction Linode is heading. Hoping the refresh of the server CPU models comes with it too AMD EPYC Milan would be excellent

eva2000 · Jan 24, 2023

Didn't see this coming, instead of adding data centers, they're moving some. Linode Fremont transitioning to Santa Clara datacenter with upgrades https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/fremont-data-center-update/

buik · Jan 24, 2023

eva2000 said: ↑

Didn't see this coming, instead of adding data centers, they're moving some. Linode Fremont transitioning to Santa Clara datacenter with upgrades https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/fremont-data-center-update/
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Seems pretty logical to me that existing locations would also be transferred to an Akamai data center. Unless Akamai is already located in the current data center. For example, in Germany and the UK. Otherwise you get duplicate employees/contracts/items/costs etc. While there might be enough space, just a few hundred meters away. As previously discussed here

I will not be surprised if Linode enters Akamai facilities. Next step probably Linode to the Akamai data centers.

It makes no sense to continue Linode's relative small facilities, contracts, etc. when Akamai already has them all.
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https://community.centminmod.com/threads/akamai-is-buying-linode.22476/page-3#post-94284

eva2000 · Jan 24, 2023

buik said: ↑

Seems pretty logical to me that existing locations would also be transferred to an Akamai data center.
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Indeed. Will be interesting to see how this plays out

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