Managing networking and Internet service infrastructure is an essential function of the cloud ecosystem. Getting that infrastructure to scale elastically to meet the often opposing demands of consumers and enterprise requires hyperscale services.
Hyperscale’s apex predators
Hyperscale computing describes data center servers and operations optimized to rapidly deliver cloud computing services. The market for hyperscale services has exploded with the growth of the cloud economy. The mid-tier market is rich with competition from regional players, smaller cloud providers and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. But the businesses at the top of the hyperscale market operate millions of servers in worldwide data centers with vast amounts of interconnection.
