Stateless Unveils Networking Industry’s First Software-Defined Interconnect Platform

Gives Colocation and Cloud Managed Service Providers the Ability to Deliver, Control and Monetize Composable Layer 3+ Network Services to Interconnect Points BOULDER, Colo. – May 1, 2019 – Stateless, Inc., the company reinventing network connectivity, today announced Luxon – the industry’s first software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) platform. As the company’s inaugural product since emerging from …

Stateless Secures $11.33M in Series A Funding to Reinvent Data Center Connectivity.

BOULDER, Colo. – January 30, 2019 – Stateless, Inc., the company reinventing network connectivity, today announced it has raised $11.33 million in Series A funding. The investment is spurred by the rapid demand to extend connectivity beyond the data center and to connect workloads across data centers, hyperscale clouds and on-premises footprints. The oversubscribed Series …

Starting Games Twice As Fast Is Not Fast Enough

Over the last few weeks, I’ve spoken to a lot of game developers in the US and Europe about the challenges in game marketing and distribution. Games are getting larger, and audiences are increasingly hesitant to try new pay and free-to-play titles. Steam has relaxed all standards and the marketplace is extremely noisy – it’s …

API becomes the primary interface for business

watch time: 18 minutes As the API or “application programming interface” becomes the primary interface for business (in much the same way physical storefronts gave way to applications and websites), we’re seeing a new chapter in the story of software emerge. While it’s playing out against the backdrop of other trends (microservices, software-defined networking, developers as …

State and the Network Challenges It Creates

Today we have access to “cloud computing,” a fast and resilient way of offshoring several key network components. The cloud is what allows us to: Launch applications in a matter of seconds Adjust the amount of storage we have on demand instantaneously Scale the application in and out over time with minimum effort As billions of devices …

A More Distributed Cloud

As cloud providers have learned from the first several years of deploying cloud availability zones, network nodes, and access points,  they’re changing both the architecture of their cloud infrastructure and the edge of their deployments. “Edge” in this case means all the points where an individual cloud company’s network ends, handing off traffic to another …

Storage is Dead! Long live OpenEBS

In this blog I share something I’ve been saying for a while now that people suggested might just be audacious enough to spark a conversation. Plus — I explain why I’ve decided to help found another storage project — OpenEBS — and to become CEO of the underlying company, CloudByte, at a time in which venture capital funding to the space has …

The next generation of cloud infrastructure – Serverless explainer

The first thing to know about serverless computing is that “serverless” is a pretty bad name to call it. Contrary to the vernacular, the technology that has burst onto the cloud computing scene in the past two years still does in fact run on servers. The name serverless instead highlights the fact that end users …

Value Adding Network Services require real-time insights

User experience is key in the digital economy. Enterprises are continuously challenged to optimize their global network infrastructures to maintain the best experience and performance for their workforce and their customers. To do this, they need comprehensive and real-time insights into their network’s behaviour — something the typical carrier cannot, and will not, provide. Right …

EVO Industry Expert Dinner 2016

This December 8th 2016 we had the pleasure to welcome a great group of IT infrastructure experts. Great food by Pieter and a wonderful location arranged by Joop of Aventura Wines. Thanks to all our attendees: Joep Piscaer, Rutger Kosters, Niels Hagoort, Frank Denneman, Harm Boertien, Walter Heck, Francisco Perez, Dennis Bruin, Dave Dirks, Funs Kessen, Willem ter …