Our longest-standing Developer Advocate, Mike Elissen, noticed an opportunity to make Akamai?s developer relations even stronger. He co-created Developer Champions, an advocacy program that helps Akamai employees better meet customer needs.
Akamai announced our intent to acquire Linode. The acquisition is intended to create the world?s most distributed compute platform. This new cloud to edge platform will make it easier for developers and businesses to build, run, and secure applications, especially given the complexities of Web3.
1&1 Versatel is a B2B provider for fibre gigabit connections and network-related services in Germany. The company is part of the United Internet AG and as such a sister company of 1&1 AG. 1&1 Versatel operates one of the biggest and most powerful fibre networks in Germany - providing its own network in more than 250 German cities and has implemented over 50,000 business customer solutions. We?re delighted that such an innovative company has chosen to partner with Akamai to increase the reach of its customer base to include smaller enterprises and to make its operations secure.
Akamai is compliant with applicable data privacy regulations in countries where we and our customers conduct business. This is a fundamental tenet of our company?s core values. After all, when you make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day, there?s an expectation that you will also protect their lives online. And that is exactly what we do.