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How Long Should It Take to Build a Cloud Interconnect?

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Cloud Interconnections should be built in minutes. Today, however, it’s not unusual for it to take months to turn up a new direct cloud interconnection. The reason it often takes months to build a direct cloud interconnection is that most people construct them with a device-centric, “Box- First” mindset. “Box-First” is what happens when you […]

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How to Build a Cloud Interconnection

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As organizations move beyond the initial shock from the impact of COVID-19, they are starting to examine future needs. Many of them are moving applications out of their internal data centers and into either colocation facilities or public cloud environments. To make this change, these organizations are building new network interconnections at an increasing pace. […]

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What is a Cloud Interconnection?

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COVID-19 is impacting all aspects of how we live, work, and play. We’ve written about several of these impacts lately including the rapid increase in the use of cloud computing. As a result of this increase, there has also been a substantial increase in the number of cloud interconnections. But, what is a cloud interconnection? […]

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The Internet of Things and the Interconnection Problem

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing and today, is no longer just computers and phones. According to David Evans, former chief futurist at Cisco, “Today, literally anything can be connected, including tennis rackets, diapers, clothing, vehicles, and, of course, homes. And although people may find this unsettling, the network is also starting to […]

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What Happens When the Village is Sheltering at Home?

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It shouldn’t take a village to route a packet, but as I explained recently, networking today requires the population of a small town to function properly. Even before the Coronavirus, the networking world has been suffering from an illness – the reliance on legacy vendors, hardware, and physical and manual processes to manage networks. This […]

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Will COVID-19 Fuel the SD-IX Revolution?

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Sometimes change is accompanied by a loud BANG and other times change quietly sneaks in with the slightest of whispers. It seems that in the case of using software to construct network interconnections the latter is happening. Because of the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on our communications infrastructure, BANG or whisper, we all have a […]

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Designing Better Connectivity Means Building from the Bottom Up

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Illustration by Stories by Freepik Stateless Inc. was built with the goal of making things easier to connect: via any network, public or private, and regardless of protocol or connection type.  When Stateless’s founders, Murad and Eric, began working on identifying and solving the current problems of networking, they used advances in compute, storage and […]

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Encryption Everywhere

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As the march towards digital transformation continues, the amount of digital data we need to protect continues to increase at an incredible pace. According to Visual Capitalist, about 188 million emails are sent every minute and that number will only continue to rise. Bad actors have more to gain than ever and CISOs are waging war with […]

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Stateless in Network World

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Thanks to the Stateless team for continuing to push the technological innovation boundaries! Stateless’ success and traction in 2019 is a direct result of our fresh approach to innovations in network connectivity. We are simply providing customers with the option to improve efficiencies and deploy new network ecosystems that support the growing 5G, IoT and […]

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Accelerating Innovation in Data Centers | Part 1

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Along with Murad Kablan, my colleague and co-founder of Stateless, we will explore, though in different directions, new insights on the revolutionary changes in the data center business. As CEO, Murad plans to focus on the business issues while I will focus more on the technology inside and outside data centers. Data centers and interconnections […]