Industry Insight: Putting applications closer to users through edge computing

The technology industry is at an exciting juncture. Cloud services provider Akamai launched an initiative earlier this year, to help companies deliver better experiences by moving their workloads closer to end-users. Akamai aims to increase its cloud-computing network with an additional 10 regions worldwide in the first quarter of this year and then another 75 throughout the rest of the year. Jay Jenkins, CTO, Akamai, shares insights into edge computing and the company's current efforts to interweave cloud computing capabilities into its large-scale edge network to become the preferred cloud computing platform. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.