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Redpanda has joined the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), making its high-performance data streaming platform available on Akamai Cloud. The partnership is designed to provide global enterprises with a streamlined path to deploy Redpanda's technology for building real-time, agentic AI, and edge applications across Akamai's distributed infrastructure.
Redpanda joins the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV).
The partnership makes Redpanda Enterprise Edition available directly on Akamai Cloud for deployment.
The goal is to simplify global adoption of high-performance data streaming for edge and AI applications.
Key benefits include expanded global reach, simplified procurement/deployment, and infrastructure efficiency.
This adds a modern, Kafka-compatible streaming engine to Akamai's cloud services portfolio.
The collaboration targets enterprises building data-intensive, real-time, and agentic applications.
A primary objective of the partnership is to broaden the geographic and commercial accessibility of Redpanda's platform. By integrating with Akamai's massively distributed infrastructure and leveraging its established customer base and procurement channels, enterprises in various regions can more easily adopt Redpanda's streaming technology. Furthermore, organizations can deploy Redpanda Enterprise Edition directly through Akamai Cloud, streamlining setup, billing, and support via a single provider.
The collaboration combines the technical strengths of both platforms. Redpanda's low-latency, brokerless data streaming architecture is designed to run efficiently on Akamai's globally distributed compute environment. This combination aims to deliver enhanced performance and cost efficiency for the demanding, real-time data workloads that underpin modern agentic AI and edge computing applications.
For Akamai, adding Redpanda significantly expands its cloud infrastructure portfolio with a leading real-time data processing engine, allowing it to address growing customer demand in this area. For Redpanda, the partnership provides a major channel to reach a vast, global enterprise audience already invested in the Akamai ecosystem. “By joining forces, we’re giving enterprises the ability to run Redpanda’s data platform on one of the most proven, globally distributed networks on the planet,” said Redpanda CEO Alex Gallego.
The partnership between Redpanda and Akamai represents a strategic alignment to capture the infrastructure needs of the AI era. By making a high-performance data streaming platform readily available on a globally distributed cloud-and-edge network, the collaboration lowers the barrier for enterprises to build and scale the real-time, data-hungry applications that are becoming critical for competitive advantage.
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