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.

 

Building a new edge data center: considerations for management and operations

The global market for edge data centers is expanding at a rate where the market is expected to reach $13.5…

 

Artificial Intelligence, Integration Key as Data Moves to the Edge

By Martin Olsen, Global Vice President, Edge Strategy, Vertiv Today’s networks are becoming more complex and distributed in order to…

 

Privacy intrusion: Hold all the cards with edge computing

By Marc-Elian Bégin is CEO and co-founder of SixSq In poker rooms around the world, players keep their cards close….

 

Liquid cooling at “The Chasm,” part two: The pros and cons of early adoption

By Linn Gowen, VP of Business Development 1623 Farnam In part one of this two-part series, we discussed the migration path…

 

Liquid cooling at “The Chasm”: Edge data centers can benefit from hyperscale technology

By Linn Gowen, VP of Business Development 1623 Farnam Until recently, the prevailing paradigm in the data center industry held…

 

High-density racks are straining data centers; liquid cooling may offer a solution

By Fred Rebarber, Senior Technical Director, Thermal Solutions, Vertiv Over the past several years, companies all over the world have…

 

Standing at the Edge? Look at the ROI Before You Leap into edge deployments

By Dale Quayle, CEO at RF Code Edge computing, a relatively recent adaptation of computing models, is the newest way…

 

How compute-in-memory can power edge AI and accelerate manufacturing efficiency

By David Kuo, Senior Director Business Development and Product Marketing at Mythic Inc Factories have made significant advancements in efficiency…

 

Adapting cybersecurity for the era of digital transformation

By Chris Forte, president and CEO of Olmec Systems  Digital transformation has many benefits, but cybersecurity risk is a very…

 

Tinkerbell gets pixie dust for managing K8s on bare metal as Equinix looks to grow governance roles

By Jason DeTiberus, senior staff software engineer at Equinix Metal The open source Tinkerbell project originally focused solely on provisioning…

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