Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge
and the leading provider of tower-connected edge colocation and
interconnection services, today announced that The Linux Foundation has
appointed Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of Vapor IO, as an LF Edge General
Member Board Representative. LF Edge is an umbrella organization within
The Linux Foundation working to establish open, interoperable
frameworks for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud or
operating system.
"The
Linux Foundation has been the gold standard for collaborative open
source projects, and I'm excited to see LF Edge bring those capabilities
to the edge computing ecosystem," said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO
of Vapor IO. "The founding projects in LF Edge have already garnered
substantial followings, and The Linux Foundation's open source
governance model will help standardize deployments that leverage edge
computing. I'm thrilled to be joining the board and look forward to
serving the community."
Accelerating Standards for Edge Computing
LF
Edge organizes complementary edge computing projects and helps them
speed up industry adoption through collaboration and open source
governance. LF Edge comprises five anchor projects: Akraino Edge Stack, EdgeX Foundry, the Open Glossary of Edge Computing, the Home Edge Project, and Project EVE. Vapor IO is a founding member of LF Edge and continues to be a lead contributor to the Open Glossary of Edge Computing.
"It's
an honor to have Cole Crawford join The LF Edge Governing Board," said
Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge, and IoT, The Linux
Foundation. "Our goal is to establish a unified open source framework
for the edge, and Cole's background and work at Vapor IO makes him a
valued member of the team."