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31 October 2019
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.
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.
03 January 2018
Love Thy Neighbor? Maybe not in the Cloud
Thoughts on the Intel CPU bug, sidecar attacks, and the value of single tenancy.
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.
10 February 2016
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!
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.
15 July 2015
Why We Peer
Whatever the reasons, peering is certainly flourishing today, and any reports of its death have been greatly overexaggerated.
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.
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Recent authors
Vivek Singh
Writer and Software Engineer
Philip DeFranco
Senior Solutions Architect
Roel Peters
Data Generalist
Nathan Goulding
Director, Bare Metal Architecture
Alex Williams
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