Birth of the Cloud: A Q&A with Vint Cerf and Linode’s Christopher Aker

Mike Maney Mike Maney leads corporate communications for Linode. Over the years, he’s led global communications teams for high profile, culture-shifting businesses at Fortune 50 companies and helped early stage startups tell better stories. I have had the opportunity to work with a number of tech pioneers over the course of my career. So when an opportunity to interview two who were at the forefront of the internet and the cloud, I jumped at it. a vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google). Years later after the creation of TCP/IP, Linode, the company Aker built, turns 18 this year, I asked Cerf and Aker to weigh in on where we’ve been, where we are today, and where we’re going. You’ve both been in the business of cloud for many years. Looking back to when you first started in this business, how has Continue reading