Opinion & Guest Commentary

Industry perspectives and expert analysis from technology leaders, infrastructure operators and market participants. These opinion pieces examine emerging trends in AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, data centers and distributed computing from the viewpoint of the people building and investing in the infrastructure economy.

 

Opportunity on the Edge: Perspective from 5G Open Innovation Lab

By Jim Brisimitzis, Founder of the 5G Open Innovation Lab According to market research firm Gartner, by 2025 more than…

 

The need for edge location management and operations standards

By Hugh Taylor, CEO of Edge Site Partners Edge computing seems poised for significant growth, given the right market conditions….

 

How our edge computing startup raised two rounds in 16 months

By Said Ouissal, CEO and founder of Zededa One of my favorite parables involves two guys camping in a forest…

 

How does 5G make the dream of edge computing come true?

By Madhu Kesavan, founder and CEO of W2S Solutions 5G and edge computing are interlinked — they share the common…

 

Turbocharging manufacturing operations with edge computing

Edge computing reduces bandwidth use and latency by bringing computing as close to the data source as possible. It involves…

 

Edge computing shows centralized model of networking is broken; how to fix it?

By Khalid Raza, CEO and founder of Graphiant Edge computing is a class of distributed computing that brings data storage…

 

Building a data plane: extending real-time data and computing to the edge

By Jonas Bonér is CEO and co-founder of Lightbend Gartner predicts that by 2025, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be…

 

The coming crisis in edge real estate

By Hugh Taylor, CEO of Edge Site Partners As edge computing gains in popularity, the technology is precipitating a crisis…

 

Five practical considerations for edge deployments

By Scott Loughmiller, CPO and co-founder of Scale Computing It’s been over a decade since Marc Andreessen published his provocative…

 

VMware uses Rackspace for SASE security service, solving edge data center challenges

By Philbert Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research VMware, in the midst of being acquired by Broadcom, isn’t stopping…

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