Equinix is hosting GIFEE Day, a co-hosted event at KubeCon EU. In this special edition of Let’s Talk for KubeCon EU, we invited Paul Teich, Director of Infrastructure Product Management – Equinix to learn more about the significance of GIFEE in today’s cloud-native world and why hardware remains a critical part of modern infrastructure.

[su_note note_color=”#000″ text_color=”#fff”]Paul Teich is Director of Infrastructure Product Management at Equinix, where he leads Equinix Metal’s efforts for rack-level datacenter infrastructure and is helping to build the next generation of Open19 specifications. Prior to Equinix, he was an industry analyst at Liftr Insights, TIRIAS Research, and Moor Insights & Strategy. Before that, he worked at AMD for two decades in product marketing, management, and strategy. Paul holds a B.S. in computer science, an M.S. in technology commercialization and has received 12 U.S. patents. [/su_note]

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix Metal is hosting GIFEE Day for KubeCon EU next week. We’ll be discussing GIFEE, origins, where the idea is at now, how hardware is now coming into play, and why we’re excited to talk about it next week! “For anyone who doesn’t already know—