Opinion & Guest Commentary

Industry perspectives and expert analysis from technology leaders, infrastructure operators and market participants. These opinion pieces examine emerging trends in AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, data centers and distributed computing from the viewpoint of the people building and investing in the infrastructure economy.

 

SBA Communications gets into the edge data center game with JaxNAP deal

This is a guest post by Phil Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research. SBA Communications, a global owner…

 

Connecting the access edge: During and after a pandemic

This is a guest post by Jeff Paine, vice president of marketing for Pica8. The number of people working from…

 

Stealth startup Ridge.co aims to build edge cloud offering with the help of data center providers

This is a guest post by Phil Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research. Stealth startup Ridge has been…

 

American Tower builds edge to complement Colo Atl core; EdgePresence enabling

This is a guest post by Phil Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research. American Tower’s data center subsidiary…

 

Dartpoints opens data center in eastern Iowa, offers interconnection at the (rural) edge

This is a guest post by Phil Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research. Dartpoints has brought a new…

 

Rocket aims to meld edge content delivery, security for WordPress hosting

This is a guest post by Phil Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research. A new managed WordPress hosting…

 

Customer First – An Edge(y) Perspective

This is a guest post by Mark Thiele, CEO and Founder of Edgevana. It’s my perspective that edge is becoming…

 

How to pivot your edge computing marketing plan during the pandemic

So far 2020 has been, as an understatement, an anomalous time for edge data centers and businesses in general. Pandemic…

 

Living on the edge: the new horizon for analytics

This is a guest post by Ravi Shankar, senior vice president and CMO at Denodo. As technology evolves, so do…

 

AMPD building performance-oriented cloud and urban data centers at the edge

This is a guest post by Phil Shih, Managing Director and Founder of Structure Research. Canadian cloud and edge infrastructure…

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