The Data Center Podcast
Data Center Knowledge
The Data Center Podcast is produced by Data Center Knowledge, the leading information source for all things data center. In our podcast we interview technology and business leaders in the data center industry to get to know them better and to ask for their take on where things are going in the constantly changing world of cloud, internet, and enterprise infrastructure, which are increasingly becoming one thing.
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In the latest episode of Uptime with Data Center Knowledge, we look at the evolution of bare metal servers. To find out more about the subject, we chat to bothers Jacob and Zachary Smith – co-founders of Packet, a bare metal hosting service that was acquired by data center giant Equinix in 2020, in a deal worth $335 million. Packet became the foundation of the new Equinix Metal business, led by Zac as its managing director, and Jacob – as the VP of bare metal strategy and marketing Correction: Soon after we recorded this episode, Zac was promoted to head of edge infrastructure services at Equinix, and Jacob – to interim lead of the digital services go-to-market. According to the Smiths, the key attractions of bare metal are speed and performance: Equinix Metal can be set up in any supported facility in as little as 15 minutes, to run almost any workload on dedicated, physical servers. The process is considerably different from handling servers used to run public cloud applications, where the hardware is often shared between multiple users. Jacob himself jokes that “no one really cares about servers” – but there are plenty of applications that benefit from bare metal, especially in organizations that value automation and are heavily invested in custom software stacks. For such customers, bare metal represents choice – a dedicated server is a blank canvas, unburdened by multiple layers of complex software that enables typical cloud workloads. The customer alone will decide what the machine will do, and how it will do it. We also discuss: • Open Source software development at Equinix • Why Equinix Metal doesn’t manage Kubernetes • How to improve sustainability at the server level
Previous episodes
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98 - Uptime with DCK: Can’t kill the Metal Mon, 09 May 2022
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97 - Equinix’s Jim Poole On New Interconnection Ecosystems, xScale, and More Wed, 07 Jul 2021
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96 - Cologix CEO Bill Fathers on the Pandemic, the Colocation Market, and Strategy Tue, 11 May 2021
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95 - What the Arrival of AI Hardware Means for Your Data Center - Charlie Boyle, Nvidia Thu, 29 Apr 2021
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94 - Is Sensible Green Data Center Regulation Even Possible in the EU? -- Alex Rabbetts EUDCA Fri, 02 Apr 2021
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93 - Why Your Servers Suck and How Oxide Computer Plans to Make This Better -- Bryan Cantrill, Oxide Tue, 16 Mar 2021
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92 - A Truly Sustainable Data Center Industry Will Require Regulation - Ed Ansett, i3 Solutions Wed, 10 Mar 2021
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91 - How Cloud Giants (Hyperscalers) Go About Leasing Data Centers -- Tim Hughes Stack Infrastructure Wed, 24 Feb 2021
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90 - How Hyperscale Cloud Platforms Reshaped the Submarine Cable Industry - Alan Mauldin, TeleGeography Tue, 16 Feb 2021
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89 - ByteDance, Edge Markets, N. Virginia: All the Latest on US Data Center Leasing - Jim Kerrigan, NADC Tue, 09 Feb 2021
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88 - What Data Center-as-a-Service Means for Juniper – Raj Yavatkar, CTO, Juniper Networks Tue, 02 Feb 2021
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87 - Crosby: Surge of New Investors Is Great for the Data Center Industry Tue, 26 Jan 2021
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86 - The Hottest Colocation Markets are No Longer in the US and Western Europe Mon, 11 Jan 2021
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85 - Dell's Strategy for Cloud and Delivering Data Centers as a Service Mon, 04 Jan 2021
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84 - Three Internet Things That Could But Didn’t Go Wrong in the Pandemic Mon, 14 Dec 2020
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83 - Why Ampere Thinks the Time Is Ripe for Arm in the Data Center Fri, 22 Nov 2019
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82 - Romonet to Take CBRE's AR Tech for Data Centers to the Next Level Fri, 05 Apr 2019
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81 - Can Bloom Energy Transform the Data Center Industry? Thu, 21 Feb 2019
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80 - What Is Cisco’s Role in a Market Where Hyperscalers Call the Shots? Tue, 29 Jan 2019
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79 - Juniper CTO Says His Rivals Got Automation All Wrong - Bikash Koley, CTO, Juniper Thu, 28 Jun 2018
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78 - Amazon Doesn’t Worry This Cloud Startup -- Jacob Smith, co-founder, Packet Fri, 30 Mar 2018
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77 - “Everybody’s in the Edge Game” - Ihab Tarazi, Sutter Hill Ventures, ex-CTO of Equinix Tue, 13 Feb 2018
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76 - This Startup Wants to Do to Data Center Power What VMware Did to Servers (Steve Houck, CEO, VPS) Mon, 29 Jan 2018
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75 - From Managed Servers to Managed Cloud: the Pivots of Rackspace -- John Engates, CTO, Rackspace Sat, 13 Jan 2018
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74 - How Open Source Databases Open Doors for IO Acceleration - Prasanna Sundararajan, rENIAC Fri, 08 Dec 2017
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73 - Why Oracle Thinks It Can Beat Amazon at Cloud - Kash Iftikhar, Oracle, on The Data Center Podcast Thu, 05 Oct 2017
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72 - "Speed of Light Sucks" -- Data Center Podcast with Cole Crawford, Vapor IO Sun, 17 Sep 2017
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71 - Ravi Pendekanti, Dell EMC: Will Edge Computing Bring Back Server Market Growth Tue, 29 Aug 2017
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70 - Digital Realty CEO Bill Stein: How to Survive a Market Meltdown and Come Out on Top Tue, 25 Jul 2017
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69 - VMware, Once the “Easiest Value Proposition in IT,” Defines Its New Role - John Gilmartin, VMware Fri, 07 Jul 2017
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68 - The Cloud for the Self-Driving Car – Florian Leibert, Mesosphere Mon, 19 Jun 2017
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67 - Playboy's First Data Center, or Birth of the Internet Colo - Peter Ferris, Equinix Wed, 31 May 2017
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66 - Uptime with DCK: Is liquid cooling inevitable? Mon, 11 Apr 2022
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65 - Uptime with DCK: Why don’t you get a job (in a data center) Tue, 08 Mar 2022
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64 - Uptime with DCK: Sustainability pays off Tue, 22 Feb 2022
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33 - VPS CEO Dean Nelson on Flipping Data Centers’ Wasteful Status Quo Wed, 04 Aug 2021
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32 - Vertiv CEO Rob Johnson On the Pandemic, Supply Chain Woes, and Data Center Tech Wed, 21 Jul 2021