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 […]
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. […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is just part of a continuing series of ideas, thoughts and comments on the digital transformation taking place in data centers today that I will be writing as part of an ongoing series. Along with my colleague and Stateless co-founder Eric Keller who will be posting his own thoughts and views on this exciting […]
Today, the Stateless team is extremely excited and proud to formally announce our software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) platform, Luxon. Those of you who have been following our journey know that we have been developing this revolutionary platform since we founded the company. We embarked on this path almost three years ago with the vision to completely re-invent […]