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29 December 2020
Turning the Physical Digital
It’s a funny thing — this idea of “creating” or turning up a cloud. Consumers of bare metal are typically much more aware of the physical considerations involved in running hardware than those using hypervisor-based, virtualized clouds.
05 May 2020
Introducing the Edge Metal Private Beta
Now is the time to get to work interconnecting everyone and connecting everything. We’re working with IBM to do it.
15 January 2020
Lessons from Hyperscale, Part 1: NVMe as a Service
Can the technologies and strategies used by hyperscalers be deployed by the rest of us? We say, yes!
31 January 2019
Architecting for Success at the Edge
Edge compute, as a continuation of the cloud wave I've helped to build over the last two decades, connects me back to my roots.
16 November 2017
Why We Can’t Wait for AWS to Announce Bare Metal
The history of AWS is based on automation through virtualization, but I bet its future won’t be. Here's why we're laying down the welcome mat.
10 March 2016
Going VIRL with Cisco
How our drive to “Make Bare Metal Great Again” resulted in our biggest partnership to date, and why that is only half the story.
01 October 2015
Bare Metal now comes with Elastic Addressing
I am pleased to announce the public availability of a feature we're calling Advanced IP Management. We're making this accessible to select clients today, and expect to have it generally available over the next week or two.
03 February 2015
How Equinix Metal is Bringing Cloud Networking to Bare Metal Servers
Networking models and features for virtualized clouds have evolved dramatically in the last decade -- while bare metal networks are largely the same as they were in 2005. At Metal, we’re changing things up a bit.
12 January 2015
Why We Threw 4 Months of Work in the Trash; or How we Failed at OpenStack
To help Packet meet its goal of operating thousands of installs 24/7 and be up and running in a few short months, I became interested in leveraging
OpenStack’s
innovations in infrastructure plumbing as building blocks for our services. This is the story of how I tried (and failed) to do so.
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