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Re:Equinix is acquiring Packet by Eikon on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:47AM (#22044651)
Packet is not doing virtualization.
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Re:Equinix is acquiring Packet by drej on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:15AM (#22045446)
Yeah, sorry, I mean VM as a bit of compute, regardless of its provisioning.
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Re:Equinix is acquiring Packet by RationPhantoms on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:05AM (#22045312)
No it's bare metal but can you not run your own virtualization software on the devices themselves?
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Re:Equinix is acquiring Packet by shaklee3 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:47AM (#22045831)
I think the responder was questioning the phrase about packet asking about the customer VMs. You can certainly run VMs on top of bare metal, but packet doesn't know about that.
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Re:Equinix is acquiring Packet by svd4anything on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:17PM (#22047587)
Exactly the story he has sounds fabricated. Maybe he is mixing providers up.
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