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  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 36 U.S....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 automation and deep network slicing to support multitenancy and multiple edge applications.

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 the...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 Wireless,...

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...

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 by...

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 questions such as, “What is edge”? According to...

 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...

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...

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...

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 help...

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...

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, converting...

    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 provide...

   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...

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 modernize data...