Blog Cloud Akamai’s Differentiated Cloud Strategy Dr. Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai Technologies in 1998 and served as Akamai’s Chief Scientist until he became CEO in 2013. Under Dr. Leighton’s leadership, Akamai has evolved from its origins as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) into one of the most essential and trusted cloud delivery and cybersecurity platforms, upon which many of the world’s best brands and enterprises build and secure their digital experiences.  Last week, we unveiled Akamai Connected Cloud, our massively distributed platform for cloud computing , security, and content delivery. You can read all the details in our announcement . \r\n Akamai is taking a fundamentally different approach to the cloud computing market than providers who base their platforms solely on core data centers. Our strategy is to offer the world’s most distributed platform, placing compute, storage, database, and other cloud services closer to end users and enterprise data centers.…