Akamai Technologies To Acquire Ondat
Summary
Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), a Cambridge, MA-based cloud company that powers and protects life online, acquired Ondat, a London, UK-based cloud-based storage technology provider with a Kubernetes-native platform for running stateful applications anywhere at scale. Ondat’s employees, including founder and chief technology officer Alex Chircop, will join Akamai’s cloud computing business. Ondat provides a technology platform that delivers persistent storage directly onto any Kubernetes cluster for running business-critical, stateful applications safely across any public, private and hybrid clouds. Akamai’s cloud computing services enable developers to build, run and secure highly performant workloads closer to wherever businesses and users connect online. More specifically, Akamai is placing compute, storage, database and other services closer to large population, industry and IT centers.