VMware Partners with Vapor IO on Multi-Cloud Services Grid to Simplify the Delivery of Distributed 5G Systems & Real-Time Edg...
June 09 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Lowering the cost and complexity of deploying
new services by stitching together multiple cloud and edge
environments through a unifying real-time framework
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) and Vapor IO today announced they are
building a Multi-Cloud Services Grid that integrates the VMware
Telco Cloud Platform with Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid platform,
allowing developers and service operators to hypercompose grid
services on-demand. The collaboration aims to greatly simplify and
lower the costs of deploying distributed 5G systems and real-time
applications by stitching together multiple cloud and edge
environments into a unifying framework that can serve up resources
for use, on-demand, across shared infrastructure.
“Today’s internet is too static, too siloed, and too
unpredictable to deploy latency-sensitive applications, such as
immersive gaming,” said Kaniz Mahdi, vice president of advanced
technologies at VMware. “What we need, instead, is a grid that can
virtualize and stitch together edge resources across multiple
clouds and locations for any given set of latency and jitter
constraints at any given time.”
The Multi-Cloud Services Grid is the first planned
implementation of an Open Grid system as envisioned by the Open
Grid Alliance (OGA), where applications can request resources from
the grid and then rely on the grid to assemble those resources.
Hypercomposing, the act of delivering a tightly-coupled set of
real-time resources on-demand, will make it possible to deliver
network functions, applications, and services at the moment they
are needed, deploying them autonomously and algorithmically across
the Open Grid based on the needs of the application.
The Multi-Cloud Services Grid will hypercompose resources at the
precise moment when the application needs to consume them. For
example, if an application requests the fastest possible path
across the least expensive resources, the grid will assemble those
resources when the application requests them and dismantle them
when the application is done using them — returning them back to
the grid for the next use.
Underpinning the Multi-Cloud Services Grid is VMware’s Telco
Cloud Platform integration with Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid platform.
It is designed to stitch-together workloads across a latency-driven
edge-to-cloud continuum, enabling highly immersive and real-time
applications, including AR/VR gaming and cloud robotics, as well as
disaggregated 5G systems.
“Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid architecture, which connects across
markets with Zayo’s dark fiber backbone, gives us the potential to
span the continental U.S. and become a platform to engage the full
edge-to-core ecosystem,” said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of
Vapor IO. “The Vapor IO and VMware teams will deploy bedrock
capabilities that serve the entire community, growing opportunities
for providers and consumers across the entire stack. We want this
to be the catalyst for other organizations to co-create and
co-innovate with us, developing the new technologies and
go-to-market business models that will enable us to collectively
deploy the Open Grid at scale, worldwide.”
The companies plan to deploy the technologies this year in Las
Vegas, Atlanta, and Dallas, making the Multi-Cloud Services Grid
available as a platform for crowdsourced innovation in those
metropolitan areas. The deployed grids will have the ability to
serve a growing ecosystem of communications service providers,
cloud providers, infrastructure owners, hardware and software
developers, municipalities, and enterprises looking to innovate
with real-time applications.
Additional Resources:
- Read a perspective on today’s news in this blog post: The
Multi-Cloud Services Grid, Build today, Ready Tomorrow, For Any
G
- Also announced today: Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid platform,
incorporating Zayo’s dark fiber backbone
- Learn more about the Open Grid Alliance by visiting Open Grid
Alliance website and reading the Open Grid Manifesto
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Vapor, Kinetic Edge and Kinetic Grid are registered trademarks
or trademarks of Vapor IO, Inc.
VMware makes no guarantee that services announced in preview or
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About Vapor IO
Vapor IO is developing the largest nationwide edge-to-edge
networking, colocation and interconnection platform capable of
supporting the most demanding low-latency workloads at the edge of
the wireless and wireline access networks. Serving the world’s
largest wireless carriers, cloud providers, web-scale companies and
other innovative enterprises, the company’s Kinetic Grid platform
combines multi-tenant colocation with software-defined
interconnection and high-speed networking. The company’s
technologies deliver the most flexible, highly-distributed edge
infrastructure at the edge of the wireless network. The company has
deployed its Kinetic Edge in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and
Pittsburgh, and is actively deploying in 36 additional markets.
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