Zac Smith
Equinix Metal's 2021 Swings and Misses: Five Things We Could Have Done Better
It's always fun to talk up all the home runs you hit, but what about the strikeouts? That is often when you learn the most, and 2021 gave us plenty of opportunities. Here’s our list.
The Liquid Cooling Imperative
As the world’s digital infrastructure company, a key aspect of our corporate mission is to go beyond the basics and protect our planet, our people, and the communities where we operate.
The Power of Proximity
I’ve spent the last twenty years hacking at the intersection of physical and digital.
Why It’s Harder to Get a Server Into Sydney than a Satellite Into Space
In short: being good at getting hardware in (and maybe even out) of data centers of all shapes and sizes is increasingly important.
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.
Ping, Power & Processors
As part of Platform Equinix, we're excited to accelerate our vision for global, fundamental infrastructure.
Ecosystems are the New Oil
Out with extraction, in with investing. Let’s make the tent bigger.
Can Big Money Crack Big Tech?
The New Trends Threatening Today's Digital Giants
The 5 Ps of Hybrid Cloud
When it comes to cloud, it doesn’t matter if you’re a fast-growing SaaS startup or an established enterprise: be intentional and know what is driving your decisions.
Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service!
It’s funny - sometimes you're so busy turning servers on and off for a living that you forget to do the obvious things: like build a managed Kubernetes offering! Doh!
Guess What Software Eats Next?
With new access via CBRS, developers (and their software) are about to eat the wireless stack.
Welcome to the Year of Subscale
How we're working to bring the best of hyperscale deployments to specialized hardware.
Make Infrastructure Your Competitive Advantage
We believe the leading companies of tomorrow will succeed through technology leadership. Here's how we're investing to help them move faster.
Love Thy Neighbor? Maybe not in the Cloud
Thoughts on the Intel CPU bug, sidecar attacks, and the value of single tenancy.
My First Server Was Named Neuromancer: Announcing Packet’s Series A Funding Round
Today, Packet announced a $9.4 million Series A funding round, led by SoftBank Group of Japan. To say the least, we’re all pretty damn thrilled.
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.
No More Warming up the Disk: Announcing our Block Storage Service
After our beta process last Summer, we knew we’d need to make storage easier for our customers - specifically network accessible block devices. But I’ll be honest: building a multi-tenant, highly resilient and high performance block storage service scared the crap out of me!