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**Zac Smith:** I think we're gonna make progress on it... We already see it happening throughout our industry, which is regulatory impacts customers... All of our biggest customers bring sustainability as their number one issue now. It didn't use to be there. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** That's a good one. |
**Zac Smith:** Even 18 months ago it wasn't even on the radar. Now - right at the top. So... Okay, that's great, because now we see business drivers... I think people are gonna pay for this too, which is really important... Because you don't just get sustainability for free. We don't get to just do "Oh, we did green po... |
I think actually number two is that at some point, if we can solve this distribution of technology - right thing, at the right place, at the right time, so that way you could pull up on your iPhone and see the tracking of your cool computer to the right market, and then just turned on... And if we could snap our finger... |
So pending we solve this distribution thing, I think the big -- and this is, again, probably... Now, you'd have to ask me what's the 2025 predictions. That's way more my style. But 2022, I'm not sure. |
2020-something - the other thing I think is gonna be security. Right now, people just try and get the hardware or the thing in the right place, at right time, and they're lucky to have it. That is not going to be our long-term challenge. We'll solve that. Then we need to solve a way different approach to security, and ... |
**Gerhard Lazu:** \[56:14\] Oh, yes. |
**Zac Smith:** You know, I always say "Why hack the app, when you can just hack the one-dollar chip at the factory?" |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Oh, yes. |
**Zac Smith:** So I think we've gotta start thinking about like a zero-trust approach to hardware, and that will allow us to increasingly move these very important parts of our life into hardware we never touch or operate ourselves. We have a trust a third-party? I don't know... You shouldn't trust a third-party. But r... |
**Gerhard Lazu:** So I know, like supply chain security... |
**Zac Smith:** 202x. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** 202x, yeah. I can see that one, even like in software, where we have been doing it for long enough... When it comes to containers, when it comes to various CI/CD systems, when it comes to two different platforms even, how software moves with those different platforms and you shouldn't trust any of the... |
Coming back to what you mentioned earlier about sustainable hardware, and how we cannot throw away hardware. We have to replace the parts which are broken, or are obviously an advantage to upgrade them, like the CPU, without upgrading everything else, and making it so simple that the FedEx guy or gal can come into a da... |
**Zac Smith:** FedEx robot. FedEx robot. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Yeah, that as well. It may happen. So it can happen, and maybe should happen, because this is like the whole more sustainable hardware, more sustainable economies of scale, because they have to be big for them to work... And you're right, it is top of the mind for many people, especially this week. |
So I can see a very nice link - and I'm sure that you can see it as well - between what you've just mentioned and Equinix Metal. So how does this map to the Equinix Metal priority for 2022? I know that you promised priorities in a few weeks in your last blog post, on November 4th... |
**Zac Smith:** You're trying to get a teaser, you can't do that... \[laughs\] |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Yes... You promised a few. I just want one. So can you give us one? |
**Zac Smith:** Well, I think we'll make meaningful progress on the distribution capabilities. I always like to tell people that Equinix metal is not a bare-metal cloud. We're a hardware distribution platform, an operator for fundamental infrastructure... So we'll enable more places where you can do that. We've been rea... |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Interesting. |
**Zac Smith:** So we'll move out there, and we're gonna do that with some partners... OEMs, supply chain partners etc. So I think that'll be really important, because as Equinix, we're fortunate that we're always building data centers. I can't remember from our last earnings call how many are under construction right n... |
So my hope is we'll make progress on that, and hopefully with customers and in the open, so that everybody can learn, and we can try and (let's say) exit 2022 with a super-clear path to disruptive sustainability from a power and cooling perspective. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** I love that. That's something I can get behind... Oh, yes. Yes, please. |
**Zac Smith:** \[01:00:00.10\] I haven't found somebody who can't get behind that. Everybody is like "That makes a lot of sense, and I wanna be part of it." So I think making sure we do that in an open way is gonna be really important. |
And the second thing is I think we're gonna see the OEMs, Dell, HP, CISCO, Lenovo etc, even NetApp, and F5, and Pure, and the people who make purpose-built technology in hardware - I think we're gonna see just massive business model shifts. The cat's out of the bag. People want aligned business models as a service... A... |
And people sometimes -- you know, they originally inferred that Equinix Metal was kind of in conflict with cloud providers... I don't think so. We've recently enabled things like Amazon EKS, and Anthos... Because I see cloud providers as software companies, that when at the right scale, run aggregated infrastructure fo... |
And with OEMs, as they move into this as-a-service model, I think we can be super-helpful with Equinix Metal to help them be the best in the world with that. It's one of the main reasons why 2014 - we've been making it so that we can automate hardware, no matter what it is, and where it is, and what runs on it. We migh... |
**Gerhard Lazu:** But that's simple, right? We'll figure it out... |
**Zac Smith:** Let's figure that out... \[laughter\] Pull request on version 1.2 of the business model. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Exactly. Or send me your pull request and I'll consider it. I'll merge it. Who knows, maybe... |
**Zac Smith:** I'll consider it... |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Okay. So as we are about to wrap this up, I'm wondering that -- like, from a listener perspective, if there was one thing that I would take away from this conversation, what would you like it to be? |
**Zac Smith:** Well, I would like more people, and especially software-minded people, to be interested and open to (I'm gonna call it) the disruptive innovation that can happen when you pair magical software with the right hardware. I think it's not only super-cool, I think it's an imperative for us long-term to be goo... |
Another one of my blog posts a year or two ago, which is about creating a bigger tent... An ecosystem-driven way, where we can create more value by solving these problems together, instead of (I'm gonna call it) a siloed way, where we take the value. It's like the Carbon industry right now, where instead of pulling in ... |
**Gerhard Lazu:** That's a really good one... And I know that Tinkerbell OSS is a great example of what you've just said. So if you're wondering, like, "This sounds a bit handwavy..." Well, no, because there's actual projects that you can go and check out, and they look really good... Which shows the investment and com... |
**Zac Smith:** Yeah. Tinkering with hardware and software together? Come on by. |
**Gerhard Lazu:** Tinkering, I love that. Like, where did Tinkerbell come from? Tinkering. There you have it. Let's tinker with hardware. I love it. |
Zac, thank you very much for indulging my curiosity. I had a great conversation about hardware, and you gave me some crazy ideas for 2022, and I would love to have you back at Ship It. Thank you very much. |
**Zac Smith:** I appreciate you having me here. Thank you. |
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