Sunsetting Equinix Metal
Recently, Equinix stopped commercial sales of Metal to focus on the solutions our customers have told us drive the most impact on their business, namely colocation, interconnection, and our hyperscale offerings. As such, with this announcement, we’ll move towards an orderly sunsetting of Equinix Metal at the end of June 2026.
Why and When Dedicated Cloud Is the Way
More than the raw performance of bare metal, it provides the advantages of public clouds without the drawbacks of shared, general-purpose infrastructure.
Why Build Your Proof of Concept on Dedicated Cloud?
POCs for workloads with no room for compromise on performance and control are best served by non-virtualized, single-tenant environments that can be provisioned on demand.
Kubernetes Cost Optimization and How Bare Metal Can Help
What levers you can pull to ensure you’re not overspending on infrastructure running your clusters.
So You Want to Run Kubernetes On Bare Metal
Why you may want to run your Kubernetes clusters on bare metal, plus key considerations and best practices for doing so.
Kubernetes Management Tools for Bare Metal Deployments
Our handy roundup of the essential tools for bootstrapping and provisioning Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and managing container workloads.
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.
Hello Ice Lake! Kicking off Equinix Metal’s Next Chapter With Intel
Our latest Intel servers boost performance for low-latency edge applications and heavy duty enterprise workloads.
Love Thy Neighbor? Maybe not in the Cloud
Thoughts on the Intel CPU bug, sidecar attacks, and the value of single tenancy.
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.
ARM’ing the World with an ARM64 Bare Metal Server
Bringing an automated ARMv8 solution to the datacenter wasn’t easy, and this marks an important step for us in building a rich ecosystem of ARMv8-optimized workloads.
