I use linode (Akamai cloud computing platform they acquired last year or so) and it is fantastic. With the cloud computing market at $484B, projected to triple in the next three years to over $1.5T, paired with Akamai's already existing edge computing resources which they can leverage to become even more competitive than linode's already competitive pricing, I see no where but up for the company. I think it is a solid buy for at least the long run, if not the short run due to further analysis on the part of fund managers already invested in cloud computing protecting their positions.
Re: recent drop due to headlines, Akamai moving to the cloud was already announced with the acquisition of linode and it sounds like it is just basing it's already existing profit centers (edge computing) in an amazing way… any sell offs at this point either know something I don't or are basing their trades on ill informed hunches.
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