Building Out the Edge

“Absent a playbook, one of the best ways to understand an emerging market is to look at what specific players are doing and why. StackPath, the three-year-old startup founded by Lance Crosby – whose last company, SoftLayer, sold to IBM for $2 billion in 2013 – makes for a telling case study in edge computing. It’s both a consumer of edge computing infrastructure and a provider of services this kind of infrastructure enables, so it has visibility both up and down the food chain.”