There’s More to Your Cloud Backup Bill Than the Cost of Storage
The storage infrastructure itself is just the beginning.
The Tools for Controlling Cloud Cost and Their Limits
While there are best practices for keeping cloud costs under control, they only get you so far. But there is a way to go further.
On or Off the Cloud: a Checklist
What basic questions to ask when faced with the daunting task of an application infrastructure rethink.
How You Know a Workload Has Outgrown the Cloud
Cloud costs can get out of control, often driven by business growth. Some cloud workloads have much to gain from an infrastructure rethink.
Scaling Bare Metal Infrastructure With Serverless Orchestration
The latest Metal integration enables creation of automated infrastructure that responds to events in near real time.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Being aware of all the things that may break in a complex system and what they will drag down with them is hard. Thinking in terms of failure domains can help.
Make It Go Faster! (Part 2) Accelerating VMware vSphere Deployment On Bare Metal
How we collapsed, reduced, and deduplicated the deployment, replacing many fragile processes with a much simpler and less error-prone one.
Inside Our Network: Maintenance Events
Preventive maintenance on a global network isn’t all that different from the maintenance you probably do for your car. If deprioritized for too long, issues can start to compound.
In the Trenches: Disaster Recovery
What happens when disaster strikes and your data and infrastructure are compromised? Having a disaster recovery plan helps minimize damage and keep your business running.
Leaping Ahead with OpenBMC
Equinix Metal is venturing into new territory as we look to bring future-forward software practices to the arcane world of BMCs and firmware.
Internet Routing and Our Shared Responsibility
How we’re doing our part to secure the internet from the bottom up with MANRS
