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.

 

Applications will find their Edge

By Venky Swaminathan, Founder and CTO of Trilogy Networks The debate over the need for computing at the edge has…

 

The Next Evolution of the Cloud is at the Edge

By Phillip Marangella, Chief Marketing Officer at EdgeConneX. The cloud is one of the most important tools in a CIO’s…

 

How Equinix is re-thinking network monitoring for hybrid, multicloud and edge

By Zac Smith, Managing Director, Bare Metal at Equinix. Infrastructure best practices continue to evolve alongside growing investment in the…

 

Lead generation and nurturing powered by data for edge computing and data center marketing

By Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO and founder of Jaymie Scotto & Associates Data: it’s the question and the answer to…

 

Criticality of the edge puts focus on downtime prevention

By Martin Olsen, VP of global Edge and integrated solutions at Vertiv. Even before the pandemic, data centers had become…

 

IBM fleshes out edge strategy with Cloud Satellite and Power Private Cloud Rack

By Daniel Beazer, Contributing Analyst at Structure Research. With some fanfare, IBM has put its riposte to AWS, Microsoft and Google’s…

 

UK edge colocation considerations: Taking a closer look at the local geography will pay dividends

By John Hall, Managing Director at Colocation at Proximity Data Centres Despite concerns before the UK’s exit from the EU…

 

Equinix expands Equinix Metal; enabling hybrid, edge for bigger market play

Guest post by Phil Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research. Equinix expanded the footprint of its Equinix Metal…

 

The B2B edge opportunity for telecoms operators

By Richard Lim, a consultant at STL Partners Edge computing has been a key area of interest amongst enterprises and…

 

How to build a framework for edge computing: balance the data, networking, security formula

By Ernest Sampera, a co-founder at vXchnge. Since the late 90s, cloud computing has entered the zeitgeist and gained popularity. Although…

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