Akamai Technologies, a cloud company that powers and protects life online, has opened the doors on three cloud computing sites that bring to life the company’s vision for a new kind of cloud designed to meet the needs of modern applications that require higher performance, lower-latency, and true global scalability current cloud architectures were not built to provide. 

The new sites mark the first major step in Akamai’s push to put compute, storage, database, and other...