Welcome to the Year of Subscale
How we're working to bring the best of hyperscale deployments to specialized hardware. Read more
Zachary has spent his last 16 years building, running and fixing public cloud infrastructure platforms. As the CEO of Packet, Zachary is responsible for the company's strategic product roadmap and is most passionate about helping customers and partners take advantage of fundamental compute and avoid vendor lockin. Prior to founding Packet, Zachary was an early member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company sold to Internap in 2011, that built software to automate all aspects of hosting datacenters. He lives in New York City with his wife and 2 young children.
Recent Blog post from Zachary Smith
Make Infrastructure Your Competitive Advantage
We believe the leading companies of tomorrow will succeed through technology leadership. Here's how we're investing to help them move faster.
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Love Thy Neighbor? Maybe not in the Cloud
Thoughts on the Intel CPU bug, sidecar attacks, and the value of single tenancy. Read more
Looking over the Edge
As we look to the fast-approaching future we ask: what will the internet look like in 5 years? Adding 11 new locations to Packet's footprint today is just the start. Read more
Access to Server Hardware is Disappearing. Does it Matter?
The act of breaking stuff and having to fix it, of taking it apart and putting it back together again, takes confidence you can often only get through a lifetime of tinkering. Read more
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