Company says six markets have live deployments and 32 are customer-ready
Modular mini-data-center company Vapor IO says that its edge computing grid service is open for business in 32 markets across the U.S., with live deployments in six of those.
Vapor is playing up time-to-market in its edge, saying that a customer can “sign a contract and have a market live in typically fewer than 90 days.”
“Vapor IO has a multi-year lead in providing production-grade infrastructure for edge-to-edge computing, and we’ve been working tirelessly to meet demand and bring the Kinetic Grid to additional markets,” said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of Vapor IO, in a statement. “Our Kinetic Grid platform is enabling new use cases with new economics, reducing the time, cost and complexity of our customers’ multi-market edge deployments.”
Vapor didn’t say which six markets have live deployments, but it listed its deployed markets as being Atlanta, GA; Birmingham, AL; Boston-Worcester, MA; Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester, NY; Charlotte and Raleigh, NC; Chicago, IL; Cincinnati/Dayton, Cleveland and Columbus, OH; Connecticut; Denver, CO; Indianapolis, IN; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA; Phoenix, AZ; Providence, RI; Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, TX; Seattle, WA; Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando and Fort Myers, FL; and Washington DC-Baltimore, MD.
Vapor touts its modular, mini-data centers as “both cloud-neutral and carrier-neutral, meaning it is one of the few locations at the edge where both carriers and clouds can meet on equal terms.” It says that use cases which are driving demand include private LTE and 5G networks, enterprises’ desire for “near prem” computing power for their cloud applications, and new as-a-service applications. It gives the example of partner Hypersive, which it says is using Vapor’s Kinetic Grid to “deliver video management and video security as an on-demand service.”
