Friday, January 25, 2019

Vapor IO Joins New Linux Open Edge Computing Effort

Austin-based Vapor IO, which provides data center and colocation services, has joined a new Linux related project, as a founding member, the company said Thursday. Vapor IO said it has joined The Linux Foundation's LF Edge project, which is working to develop an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. Other founding members of the group include a very large number of other companies, including Arm, AT&T, Baidu, Dell EMC, HP, HPE, Huawei, IBM, and many, many others. The Linux Foundation's new group also includes the Akraino Edge Stack, EdgeX Foundry, and Open Glossary of Edge Computing, formerly stand-alone projects.