Survey Data Hub - Voice of the Enterprise: Edge Infrastructure & Services, Workloads 2024
Craig Matsumoto is a senior research analyst in the 451 Research technology research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He covers distributed edge infrastructure, networking and interconnection for the Datacenter Services and Infrastructure channel. In the networking sphere, Craig’s current research focuses on cloud-native networking services, including multicloud connectivity. He also covers distributed edge clouds, such as content delivery networks, and tracks issues related to distributed data and on-demand infrastructure management. Prior to this role, Craig spent more than 20 years in technology journalism. As a lead editor at Light Reading, SDxCentral and EE Times, he followed the evolution of software-defined networking and its relationship to the then-emerging worlds of cloud computing and containerization. His past coverage has also included semiconductors, including semiconductor manufacturing, and telecom optical networking. Craig holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dreams of housing edge datacenters at cellular towers have languished for lack of pervasive use cases, but Big Blue has undertaken a project that fits this kind of near-edge footprint. In partnership with American Tower, IBM plans to parlay this work into broader deployments of hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Ethernet suits many use cases, but can struggle to meet the scale and performance required for AI applications. InfiniBand guarantees data delivery and is highly performant, but is a niche protocol lacking Ethernet's vast ecosystem and economies of scale.
The company has built up its capabilities as a cloud-neutral, cloud-adjacent control center for enterprises. Its global fiber backbone, Equinix Fabric, helps customers connect directly to clouds, and its new Fabric Cloud Router gives them another option for connecting cloud-to-cloud.
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