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The City of Las Vegas is in the process of revitalizing the Medical District. Public safety is a top priority. The city expressed the desire for the medical district to feel safe as if the police presence was doubled without increasing the number of officers...
Today, Vapor IO announced a collaboration with VAST Data. The purpose of this collaboration is to integrate the VAST Data platform into Vapor IO’s Zero Gap AI. Both companies recognize that the effectiveness of AI solutions is intrinsically tied to the quality and quantity of...
In the age of high-speed broadband and global digital connectivity, expectations for seamless and efficient data communication continue to rise. This makes the "last mile"—the final leg of the wireline and wireless networks that deliver services to customers and devices—an increasingly critical component of the...
Editor's note: This article first appeared on the DISH Wireless blog, which is not available in all countries. It has been reposted here for convenience. September 19, 2022 By Stephen Bye, EVP and chief commercial officer, DISH Wireless DISH Wireless and Vapor IO have been...
On May 10, 1869, Leland Stanford—who later founded Stanford University—drove a 17.5 karat “golden spike” into the ground at Promontory Point, Utah. That ceremonial undertaking signaled the interconnection of the nation’s eastern and western railroad lines to form the transcontinental railroad. Signed into law by...
Each year, analyst firm GigaOm evaluates companies that offer edge colocation services and then publish their findings in a Radar for Edge Colocation report. GigaOm has proven over the years to be one of the most innovative analyst and research firms in the market. Their...
Announced today, Vapor IO has teamed up with ITRenew to accelerate the adoption of 5G and Industry 4.0 applications. The companies are lowering the cost and reducing the complexity of enterprise digital transformation initiatives by replacing on-premises data centers with near-premises offerings, starting in five...
Since 2017, Vapor IO has been engaged with the city of Chicago and the City Tech Collaborative. Chicago was the very first city to host a Kinetic Edge and it’s the city we chose to implement our drone POCs, including the one described in this...
2020 was an intense year, especially given the onslaught of Covid 19 and its ensuing chaos. In spite of the turbulence, though, it was a banner year for edge infrastructure companies like Vapor IO. It turns out, the future of factory robotics, distance learning and...
Why We Joined the Open Grid Alliance At Vapor IO, our mission has always been to rearchitect the internet at the edge. We’ve built and deployed dozens of edge data centers. We’ve trenched miles of cables. We’ve written thousands of lines of code. We’re in...
Kinetic Edge Alliance member, Latent AI gives their perspective on leading the way on AI data at the edge. Edge computing and AI must work hand-in-hand to provide a continuum of services from device to cloud, inferencing and extracting value at different layers. The industry...
Vapor IO presents the first ever Virtual Edgecon, bringing the best of edge online, in a brand new way. Attendees will join leading experts in edge computing for interactive sessions, live Q&As and the ability to request one-on-one meetings with other attendees in real-time. The...
In recent weeks you may have seen an uptick in discussions about bringing edge computing capabilities to rural America. Out in front of these conversations is KEA member Trilogy Networks, which has been spearheading the Rural Cloud Initiative (RCI), a coalition that seeks to bring...
Synse, the open source API for environmental data, has just been updated as Synse 3.0. This release incorporates a revamped SDK which allows the developer community to create Synse plugins that interface with any source of OT data, as well as extensive refactoring and new...
With $90m in funding, Vapor IO is expanding the Kinetic Edge platform to 36 major markets across the United States, greatly accelerating the rollout of the largest network solving for the edge. This nationwide expansion of the Kinetic Edge platform will allow our customers to...
This article was originally posted on the State of the Edge blog. Edge computing is an inevitable evolution in data processing, transmission and storage. To make the best use of this infrastructure, developing the right practices and processes around the many new capabilities enabled by...
Today Vapor IO announced the Kinetic Edge™ Exchange (KEX), the world’s first edge exchange, a software-defined system for cross-connecting networks in edge environments. Interconnection at the edge is key to the next generation of internet infrastructure, which will be built on this flexible, performant foundation....
Network operators risk drifting away from their competitive advantages, pulled by the tides of change in the industry driven by 5G, mergers and new entrants. Without anchoring themselves at the edge, telcos risk being disrupted by the next generation of applications. It has become more...
Original blog post: https://www.pluribusnetworks.com/blog/understanding-pluribus-networks-at-vaporios-kinetic-edge/ Today we announced the successful deployment of Netvisor® ONE OS and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric™ 5.0 at multiple Vapor IO Kinetic Edge™ sites in Chicago, IL. This deployment validates Pluribus’ ability to connect multiple edge data center sites seamlessly, providing a controllerless distributed fabric with SDN...
Over the past twenty years, we have seen an incredible rise in the number of mobile devices using wireless networks. Powerful mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are now the primary method for most of us to access the internet, and to connect with...
Every day, more and more articles, white papers and discussions extol the virtues of the rapidly-evolving world of edge computing. With diverse use cases that include city-scale IoT, autonomous vehicles, and real-time mobile gaming, there is no shortage of new and exciting applications driving edge...
Every day, millions of developers use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create innovative applications that solve real world problems, leveraging the full power and capabilities of the AWS ecosystem. It has always been Vapor IO’s vision that edge complements cloud, and we’re proving it out...
Infrastructure edge computing, brought to fruition through the Kinetic Edge nationwide network of tower-connected edge data centers, will form the foundation of the nation’s 5G networks, assisting mobile operators as they upgrade their infrastructure and begin delivering new experiences. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) and...
On February 13, 2019, Vapor IO announced the Kinetic Edge Alliance (KEA), a partnership that includes Deployment Partners — Federated Wireless, Linode, MobiledgeX, Packet and StackPath — and Technical Partners — Alef Mobitech, Detecon International, Hitachi Vantara, New Continuum Data Centers, Pluribus Networks, and Seagate...
One of the things we frequently hear is that there’s no one place to go, to really do edge. That is all changing. Today, Vapor IO has announced the Kinetic Edge Alliance (KEA), a partnership led by Vapor IO that includes Deployment Partners — Federated...
Today, Cloudflare announced the Bandwidth Alliance, a commercial collaboration of like-minded companies all committed to exchanging traffic across their networks for little or no cost. Bandwidth Alliance companies believes that all companies in the internet supply chain benefit from activities that remove friction from data...
(The following blog post is written by Erick Daniszewski, a Senior Software Engineer at Vapor IO and maintainer of the Synse opensource project) At Vapor IO, we have been working hard on a hardware and software solution for the edge. At the core of our...
Today we announced our Series C financing and our nationwide edge colocation business we call Kinetic Edge. Vapor IO now has the funding to deploy Kinetic Edge data centers in every major US metro area and we have plans to be underway in 100 locations...
Click to download this free 100+ page research report. Get this free 100+ page research report on the state of edge computing at StateoftheEdge.com How many times have you been in a conversation about edge computing where you find yourself bogged down around the most basic...
Welcome to the first of many blog posts focused on Engineering here at Vapor IO! We’ll to start with a post about the Vapor Chambers. Besides being an amazing accomplishment in engineering, a true implementation of an all-in-one automated rack and enclosure system, and one...
The recent tragedy in Tempe, Arizona, where an autonomous Uber killed a pedestrian, has encouraged us to rethink the timeline for autonomous cars on our highways. Despite millions of dollars worth of equipment and a human driver behind the wheel, the Uber did not see...
Today we announced the Vapor IO Kinetic Edge™, a technical architecture for combining multiple Vapor IO micro data centers into a virtual data center that can span an entire city and deliver a record-breaking twelve or more nines of availability. Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge is...
Today, we are unveiling Project Volutus. Project Volutus seeks to build the world’s largest network of distributed edge data centers by placing thousands of Vapor Chambers at the base of cell towers and directly cross-connecting them to the wireless networks. This will make it possible...
Editor's Note: Today, Vapor IO and four other partners, including LinkedIn, Flex, GE Digital and HP Enterprise, announced their collaboration to establish the Open19 Foundation, an open community that will define data centers of the future. The past decade has been dominated by mega-scale data...
There are over 100,000 cell towers in the US. If you count billboards, rooftops and other small cell sites, the number climbs to over 200,000. Most of these sites are concentrated in urban areas, though cell towers are really everywhere, including in our rural areas....
Today we introduced Vapor Edge, an end-to-end platform for building out edge environments. This is a major milestone for Vapor IO, as we take a huge step forward in realizing our vision of data-driven data centers and bring to market a suite of technologies that...
Jumping Into the Vapor Mark Musselman is Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Vapor IO, where he leads the company’s partnerships and its enterprise sales team. Mark comes to Vapor IO with over 20 years experience at both early stage and mature organizations....
Our mission: Our vision, from inception, has been to build a data driven data center company. We live in a world of data, and we use this data to make physical systems more efficient and effective. We have anti-lock brakes that make us better drivers,...
In my previous post (“Software is Eating the Data Center”), I discussed the fact that a modern data center should function and appear to users as a large computer that runs various workloads. The work Vapor is doing to integrate OpenDCRE into DC/OS to...
We could not be more excited to announce our partnership with Mesosphere on the release of Open-Source DC/OS with OpenDCRE integration. Since the founding of Vapor IO, we have shared a common vision with Mesosphere: that the modern data center should work and appear to...
I’m proud to announce the release of OpenDCRE v1.1.0 today. OpenDCRE is an API and infrastructure for data center monitoring and management that runs on a Raspberry Pi, and operates at the scope of a single rack. OpenDCRE allows you to ditch your out-of-band (OOB)...
At Vapor IO, our team has been working on what we feel to be dramatic improvements for both hardware and software in the data center space. As the VP of Software Engineering, it’s my job to lead the team designing and building the software that will...
I've spent over a decade working with both for profit companies and of course non-profit companies to assist them in getting the most out of open source technology. Throughout my journey in this vast land of openness I have had some interesting questions posed to...
As we embark on the voyage of true hybrid clouds it's important that we don’t forget about the waters we’ve traveled and the waters ahead. A familiar ocean with ports and established routes has been sailed for years. It's a vast and rich environment though...
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