Vainamo Global NetworkInfrastructureVGN
What we learned deploying our first network location
Notes from bringing the Vantaa site online: racking, addressing, connectivity, and the parts that took longer than expected.
2026 / Draft
Read article →Rene Investments Ab
Technology research through building.
Vainamo is a technology research and venture-building initiative of Rene Investments Ab.
We investigate technologies by building and operating real systems. Our current focus is the Vainamo Global Network, a distributed infrastructure project that provides a foundation for research and future technology ventures.
Current project
Vainamo Global Network
Infrastructure as a research platform.
The Vainamo Global Network is a distributed network infrastructure project being built and operated by Vainamo.
The network connects infrastructure across Europe, North America, and Asia and provides a foundation for experimentation, research, and future technology projects.
By designing, deploying, and operating our own infrastructure, we gain practical experience in networking, systems administration, data centers, security, redundancy, automation, and distributed infrastructure.
Vainamo-operatedPartner-operatedVainamo Global Network
Vainamo operates its own data center in Vantaa, Finland. Other parts of the global network run through data centers operated by trusted partners in Switzerland, the United States, and Singapore.
Research framework
Why build our own network?
Building infrastructure teaches things that cannot always be learned from documentation alone.
By designing and operating VGN ourselves, we gain practical experience in how distributed infrastructure is designed, deployed, automated, secured, monitored, and maintained.
Operating infrastructure at our own scale also gives us a practical perspective on the engineering and operational challenges faced by large-scale infrastructure providers.
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Network architecture
How geographically distributed networks are designed and interconnected.
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Data center operations
How servers, connectivity, power, facilities, and physical infrastructure come together.
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Systems engineering
How infrastructure and software systems are deployed, automated, monitored, and maintained.
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Reliability
How redundancy, geographic diversity, and failure affect system availability.
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Security
How infrastructure is protected and how trust boundaries are designed.
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Operations
What it actually takes to operate infrastructure continuously over time.
Method
Research. Build. Learn. Develop.
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Research
Explore emerging technologies and identify interesting technical or commercial problems.
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Build
Create software, prototypes, infrastructure, and experiments to test ideas in practice.
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Learn
Operate what we build and document what works, what fails, and what we discover.
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Develop
Turn promising findings into products, projects, ventures, or potentially independent companies.
Findings
What we're learning
Vainamo documents the practical knowledge gained from its projects, so that experience accumulates instead of disappearing.
Infrastructure
How to design, deploy, and operate geographically distributed infrastructure.
Networks
How network components interact in a real operating environment.
Automation
How infrastructure operations can be automated and made reproducible.
Reliability
How systems behave when components, providers, or locations fail.
Economics
What infrastructure actually costs to build and operate at different scales.
Architecture
Which technical decisions remain sensible as systems grow.
Notes
From the lab
NetworkingVGN
Why geographic diversity matters in distributed infrastructure
How distance, routing, and independent failure domains change the behaviour of a small distributed network.
2026 / Draft
Read article →NetworkingSystems
Building our own DNS infrastructure
Running authoritative and resolving DNS ourselves, and what that reveals about caching, delegation, and operational risk.
2026 / In progress
Read article →ReliabilityVGN
Designing infrastructure for failure
Planning for component, provider, and location failure before it happens, and testing whether the plan holds.
2026 / Planned
Read article →InfrastructureResearch
What running a small network teaches you about large infrastructure
Operating at our own scale gives a practical perspective on problems that large infrastructure providers describe abstractly.
2026 / Planned
Read article →SystemsAutomation
Automating infrastructure deployment
Making deployment reproducible so a location can be rebuilt from configuration rather than memory.
2026 / In progress
Read article →We build to understand.
Vainamo explores technology by turning ideas into real systems, operating them, and learning from the results.