Vapor IO Blog
Notes From the Edge: AI and the New Data Refinery for the Edge Continuum
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...
A New Kind of Virtual Conference
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...
The Edge – “Gone Country?”
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...
Empowering the Autonomous Edge: Synse 3.0
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...

Reaching Critical Mass: Expanding the Kinetic Edge to 36 Markets
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...
User Requirements at the Edge: Defining Success
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...
Interconnection at the Edge: Introducing the Kinetic Edge Exchange
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,...
Anchoring to the Future: Telecoms and the Kinetic Edge
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...
Understanding Pluribus Networks’ Deployment at Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge in Chicago
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.
CBRS at the Edge: Devices, Infrastructure and Spectrum
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...
Making Edge Computing Deployable: The Kinetic Edge Alliance
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...
Powering Amazon Web Services at the Kinetic 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...
The Engine Behind 5G: Edge Computing
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...
MobiledgeX Delivers on Promise of a Public Mobile Edge
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,...
Introducing the Kinetic Edge Alliance
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,...
Why the Bandwidth Alliance Matters, and Why we Joined it
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...
Making Synse of Your Infrastructure
(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 software...
The Kinetic Edge is Coming to You
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...
State of the Edge 2018: Avoiding Edge Computing’s Tower of Babel
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 Vapor Chambers Are Real!
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Autonomous Vehicles are Here, Just Not the Ones You Think
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...
Introducing the Kinetic Edge: Combining Multiple Edge Sites into a City-Sized Virtual Data Center
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...
Project Volutus: Extending the Cloud to the True Edge
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...
Open19 and the Dawn of Vapor Edge Computing
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...
Announcing: Vapor Edge for Telecom
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....
Introducing Vapor Edge
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...
Mark Musselman Joins Vapor IO
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...
The Mission
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...
Currency-Based Scheduling in DCOS
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...
Software is Eating the Data Center
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...

Release of OpenDCRE v1.1.0
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) management network, and instead use power line communications (PLC) over a DC bus bar as the main data transport mechanism.
Vapor CORE / OpenDCRE: A Primer
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...

Last Mile “lock-in” and why that’s good for business
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 me....

The Next Chapter in Data Centers – A Tale of Two Clouds
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 a new...