Hivelocity, a leading bare metal cloud provider, today announced it has
selected Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge Platform, the first
fully-integrated hardware and software system for edge colocation, exchange and
networking services, to extend its bare metal cloud to the service provider
edge in 36 US cities, starting with successful deployments in Pittsburgh and Atlanta.
"Hivelocity is singularly focused on building
out the most comprehensive bare metal cloud for edge computing," said Richard Nicholas,
SVP, Strategy and Corporate Development at Hivelocity. "To do this, we
chose to partner with Vapor IO, as its Kinetic Edge platform provides the
essential citywide infrastructure needed to deploy at the edge. Through this
partnership, we're aggressively rolling out our bare metal edge cloud to the
top 36 US cities, making us one of the most comprehensive platforms for
deploying edge workloads."
Accelerating cost-effective
deployment of edge applications Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge platform combines
multi-tenant colocation with software-defined interconnection and high-speed
networking. The Kinetic Edge platform offers the most flexible,
highly-distributed infrastructure for delivering modern, low-latency
applications. Through its joint core-to-edge solution with Digital Realty's PlatformDIGITAL, Vapor IO enables
cloud-to-core-to-edge applications, including 4G & 5G networks, distributed
AI, IoT, robotics, autonomous vehicles and augmented reality. By adopting Vapor
IO's Kinetic Edge platform, Hivelocity has been able to deploy its bare metal
edge cloud more quickly and at much lower cost, bringing
infrastructure-as-a-service to these edge applications.
"Hivelocity's cloud resources on Vapor IO's
Kinetic Edge platform dramatically accelerates the deployment of edge-to-core
applications and shifts the cost structure from CAPEX to OPEX," said Cole Crawford,
CEO and Founder at Vapor IO. "We're thrilled to be chosen by Hivelocity to
extend its bare metal cloud to the edge. The combination of Hivelocity at-scale
edge cloud deployments and Vapor IO's nationwide Kinetic Edge platform will
create the essential infrastructure upon which developers can deploy and
operate next generation edge applications."
Real world deployment One of the first customers to use
Hivelocity's bare metal cloud at the Kinetic Edge is AlefEdge, which is
deploying a private wireless mobile edge computing platform nationwide. Last
month, AlefEdge and Vapor IO announced their
collaboration to roll out AlefEdge's Software-Defined Mobile Edge (SD-ME),
which makes it possible to deploy edge computing services onto private
networks, including existing LTE, CBRS and Wi-Fi networks, as well as
forthcoming 5G networks. The combination of Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge
infrastructure, Hivelocity's bare metal cloud and Alef Edge's SD-ME platform
provides the critical architecture to support enterprise customers with
'near-prem' requirements for ultra-low latency and high bandwidth services.
True edge-to-core Also announced today, Hivelocity, Vapor IO and
Digital Realty have collaborated to showcase an edge-to-core bare metal
platform that gives developers the availability to deploy edge-to-core
workloads on Hivelocity's bare metal edge cloud, first in Atlanta,
but soon in other cities nationwide. The multi-tier edge deployment in Atlanta builds
upon Digital Realty and Vapor IO's announcement in June, highlighting the
integration of PlatformDIGITAL with Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge architecture.