About this Report

This report, authored by SlashDataand commissioned by Akamai, explores the perceptions of and interest in the current state of distributed cloud. For this report, respondents were provided the following definition of distributed cloud computing: “Distributed cloud computing is the practice of decentralizing cloud resources and services to be physically closer to the data source or user, while still being managed centrally.” Further, this report also examines the advantages developers are most interested in exploring in a distributed and decentralized world, as well as what challenges they expect to face. Developers were also asked to consider the development standards they believe are most important, as well as which technologies they feel need greater development to support their adoption of a more distributed cloud.