Research & Analysis

Original reporting, market research and expert analysis examining long-term trends across digital infrastructure markets. This section includes analyst insight, deep dives into infrastructure economics, industry data and strategic analysis of emerging technology and market developments.

 

CDN second-quarter earnings wrap: who has an edge in serverless growth?

It’s time for earnings reports again, and a look at the results from the major content delivery networks is offering…

 

Sunlight.io highlights Omdia research describing manageability challenge for the edge

Sunlight.io commissioned Omdia research to look into the challenges of deploying applications at the edge. The report brings to the fore…

 

AT&T Clouds Up Microsoft Deal: “We are not outsourcing our core network function”

When AT&T announced recently that Microsoft was buying its 5G Network Cloud core software and moving it to Microsoft’s cloud,…

 

Bank Of England warns over hyperscaler dominance in banking: Opportunity for the edge?

Hyperscalers are used to dominating the IT industry’s growth and revenue charts but this past week they featured on a…

 

DE-CIX sees car manufacturers as part of new ‘eyeball’ networks using edge interconnection

Internet exchanges are eyeing up a new type of customer—car manufacturers. And not just for traditional enterprise IT needs. Frankfurt-based peering…

 

Microsoft buys AT&T’s 5G Network Cloud core—is this the new norm ‘core’?

In what can only be described as a bold move, Microsoft is to buy the network core AT&T has been…

 

Cox Business gives enterprise strategy an ‘edge’ with launch of edge services

Cox Business took its edge strategy one step further with the launch of Cox Edge, a low latency compute platform….

 

Vapor IO, VMware talk ‘Multi-Cloud Services Grid,’ add Zayo for edge-to-edge connectivity

Vapor IO and VMWare launched the Open Grid Alliance with a flourish in April, and they have now released some…

 

Macrometa nets $20M for ‘global data network’ service with edge database tech

Macrometa, a startup developing what it calls a “global data network” (GDN) built on edge computing services, announced it had…

 

Edge computing growing in the wake of increasing IoT deployments, Eclipse survey finds

The Eclipse Foundation has released its 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey report, based on an online survey of…

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