InterConnections &#8211; The Equinix Blog

Networking at the Edge: Simplify your topology to increase network performance, resiliency and scalability

To accelerate your IOA strategy for networking, we offer a “Network Blueprint.” This guide lays out the steps you can take to address latency, bandwidth and security issues by deploying a more distributed network infrastructure out at your enterprise’s digital edge, where population centers (customers, employees, partners) and digital ecosystems (clouds, mobile, social networks, B2B partners) meet.

Ryan MalloryApril 12, 2017April 12, 2017

Featured

Clouds at the Digital Edge: Making the most out of digital IT with multi-cloud connectivity

By mixing and matching your company's business needs to the best cloud services, you have the opportunity to create a more agile, flexible and scalable IT service delivery infrastructure that better supports your organization's digital business goals. But are you making the most out of this new dynamic, digital environment?

Ryan MalloryFebruary 23, 2017April 3, 2017

How to Converse in Cloud: Cloud Balancing

We examine “cloud balancing.” As with many cloud technologies, cloud balancing not only changes the nature of traditional load balancing, it changes the whole way applications are delivered to end users.

Ryan MalloryFebruary 8, 2017February 9, 2017

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5 Pivotal Trends Emerging from PTC 2017

I always look forward to attending Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conferences because they’re excellent bellwethers of things to come, and not just in the networking industry, but all that networking touches. In this increasingly interconnected world, that includes just about everything.

Ryan MalloryJanuary 25, 2017January 26, 2017

Cloud Services to Watch in 2017

There have been so many "as-a-service" offerings coming to the market that it is difficult to keep up. We’ll dive in here, but before we do, let’s start where it all bega

Ryan MalloryJanuary 5, 2017January 13, 2017

Networks

Software-Defined Infrastructure and Advanced Networking Expand: 2017 Connected Enterprise Prediction #6

Going forward, the next generation IT infrastructure ̶ compute, storage, network and data centers ̶ will be open source-based, leveraging standards developed by organizations such as the Open Networking Forum and the Open Compute Project.

Ryan MalloryDecember 20, 2016December 21, 2016

How to Converse in Cloud: Are Containers the Next Atomic Unit of Computing?

Among the enterprises surveyed in the RightScale “2016 State of the Cloud” report, containers are picking up steam. Open source container pioneer Docker, doubled its current installed base to 29% year-over-year, with another 38% of enterprises saying they plan to use it in the future. Cloud giants Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform have also entered the market offering container services based on open source tools, including Docker, DC/OS or Kubernetes.

Ryan MalloryDecember 8, 2016December 8, 2016

How to Converse in Cloud: Virtualization Vs. the Private Cloud

We tackle a common point of confusion: A lot of organizations think they’re running a private cloud, when what they’re really running is just a virtualized data center.

Ryan MalloryAugust 3, 2016