Introducing Diamond Myst 3000.XXXL: Flaunt Your Shimmer
Real digital trailblazers don’t settle for hardware that looks like everyone else’s.
“Up and Down:” the Introspection of Rock Climbing
A podcast series that spotlights the humans behind Equinix Metal and their lives outside of work. This week we introduce My Truong.
Hardware Innovators’ Hidden Role in the Explosion of the Internet
“There are thousands of people at large companies that are driving not only the design of the hardware, but the supply chains behind [it] as well. And if you just look at the financial reporting from these companies, they spend billions and billions of dollars on infrastructure.” — Amir Michael
Crank It to the fMax
For those who value single-core performance over running many cores at once, there’s a trick to “turning it up to 11” and getting a lot more out of your hardware.
What Is the Data Explosion Doing to the Planet?
“The internet is actually a big sustainability bargain.” — Jon Koomey
Blockchain’s Democratizing Potential
Grace Andrews reflects on the power blockchain technology can put in the hands of “everyday people doing everyday things.”
The Offload: A Bare Metal Cloud Use Case for SmartNICs
How having a Linux computer for a network card opens up a world of possibilities for network configuration.
Why We're Raising Prices and Not Blaming the Supply Chain
Sure, we’re raising our on-demand pricing, but that’s not the biggest news: we’re also bringing the latest from Intel and AMD to our platform, making more inventory available everywhere, and increasing our term discounts dramatically.
Why the Internet Owes Its Success to Open Source
“The Free Software Foundation is the grandfather of what people like to call ‘open source’ and what we like to call free software. We mean free as in speech, not as in beer.”—Brian Fox
Tinkerbell’s Pixie Dust Makes Kubernetes Fly
Cluster API Tinkerbell, Kubernetes types and controllers, and other new additions in the open source bare metal provisioning engine.
How Wireless Changed the Network Infrastructure Conversation
“Apple and Google utterly eradicated them. None of those first 10 companies are still in the smartphone business in the way that they were.” – Sascha Segan