Jacob Smith
How We Built a Cloud-Like OS Experience On Bare Metal
It took a village, but our lineup of “officially” supported operating systems now has more options and, importantly, is far easier to update and grow.
Salted Blue Butter Cookies
Driving Sustainability with Delicious Results
Spring is a season of new beginnings, and for Equinix Metal, new ideas. With the sound of birds in the air and new blossoms budding on the trees, our creative energies naturally veered away from powerpoints and campaigns to more wholesome fare. More on that in a minute!
The State of Your Edge
The most recent edition of the State of the Edge Report shines a light on the variety of solutions being created and deployed in response to new opportunities. It makes me think: what’s the state of your edge?
From Options to RSU's: Reflections on an Acquisition, One Year On
It’s one year since Equinix acquired Packet. Here’s what I’ve learned about language, listening and learning.
On Building a Brand That You Love
The only thing I really know how to do is play the bassoon. When I was 14 years old, I somehow started down the path to become a professional classical musician, spending thousands of hours learning my craft.
Tripling Down on Cloud Native
Today we're tripling our annual investment in the CNCF's Community Infrastructure Lab to $1M. Here's why.
It's Just a Building, So Why Should You Care?
There's a party at every Equinix IBX, and the good news is: you’re invited.
A Blank Check for Open Source
When Brad Rydzewski, the founder of Drone.io reached out with the “crazy” idea of releasing Drone Cloud for free to the open source community, we immediately said yes. Here's why.
Searching for the Soul of the Internet in Red Hook - not Seattle!
When you think of exploring the heart and soul of the internet, places like Mountain View, Seattle, Portland or San Jose come to mind. But what about New York's Chinatown, the projects in Red Hook or a lab at Dartmouth College?
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.
How to Thrive in a Post AWS World
Okay, so an online bookseller has kicked ass and taken names in the battle for "Cloud 1.0". How will the next round be won or lost?
Lessons Learned from our Journey to 3500 Customers
Last month we turned two years old, closed a Series A funding round and onboarded our 3500th customer. Here's what we've learned!![It’s Open Source Season on the [Kubernetes] Highway!](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/17e62166fc8586dfa4d1bc0e1742c08b/uJ08-jcez.highway.reduced_600.jpg)
It’s Open Source Season on the [Kubernetes] Highway!
To save you from the potentially exhausting, dangerous journey down the interwebs, here is our “guaranteed to be out of date next month” roundup of the movers, shakers, and newsworthy in the Kubernetes landscape.
NVMe Servers: The Next Leap in Bare Metal Performance
A few years ago, SSD drives took the industry by storm - boosting performance for all kinds of use cases. Now Packet is introducing the next latency-killing revolution and its name is NVMe.Recent authors
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