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.

 

The Metaverse and edge computing: shared experiences built on a new OS, compute paradigm

By David Smith, Co-Founder and CTO of Croquet, Inc.  Human collaboration mediated by computers is fundamentally about providing a “shared truth”…

 

Cable broadband infrastructure: The key to unlocking scalable outdoor edge compute

By Greg Laughlin, Strategic Marketing Manager at EnerSys Outdoor edge compute will tremendously impact future IoT and smart city development through…

 

Pitfalls of Infrastructure-as-Code in platform engineering

By Venkat Thiruvengadam, founder and CEO of DuploCloud In the context of cloud operations, the last decade was ruled by…

 

Automation symbiosis: How the edge and 5G unlock the possibilities of tomorrow

By Adam Compton, Director of Strategy, Schneider Electric Humans have been automating manual processes since the dawn of recorded history….

 

Data gravity at the edge: How ‘data hubs’ and edge data centers can help

By Bill Severn, Executive Vice President of 1623 Farnam Is data gravity on your radar? It should be. Many of…

 

Eating the internet: the rise of edge computing and a new business network

By Khalid Raza, CEO and founder of Graphiant Five years ago, an infamous Gartner blog said, “The Edge will Eat…

 

How to build a company in an untapped market

By Said Ouissal, CEO and founder, Zededa It’s difficult enough to start a company in an existing market, but it’s…

 

From sustainability to edge connectivity: top trends in the data industry

By Angie Keeler, CEO and co-founder of Zella DC The data industry has undergone a massive transformation over the past…

 

A centralized energy management system is vital for managing edge data centers

By Andrew Ruef, director of sales and marketing, Janitza Ensuring uptime while reducing energy costs and environmental impacts is a…

 

IT Architecture Is being re-shaped by hybrid IT

By Shane Menking, COO, Element Critical Hybrid IT architecture is gathering momentum in all its forms, and the traditional view…

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